Joined: Jun 29 2007 Posts: 12189 Location: where ever i am
odemwingie wrote:Surely eventually we could have more than 14, maybe we could go up to 16 in 2012. Halifax and Widnes I would say. Cumbria needs more time, for a stadium and some sort of agreement to get it sorted.
I think we could go to 16, but we'd have to loose the magic weekend (or incorperate it into weekly rounds). But we just couldn't ever have every "traditional club" in we would have a league of around 30!
firthyman wrote:i know all you barrow,haven,workington fans will be pished with me,but the only way cumbria will get a (deserved) super league team will be with a cumbrian franchise.
I disagree TBH. If the RFL can tick the 'Cumbria' box they will, no matter which team it is. The team would effectively be a Cumbrian team anyway, as all the best Cumbrian 'locals' would be part of the set-up and also many 'ex-pat' Cumbrian players in SL (Gardners x2, Lupton, Purdham, Wilkes, Harrison etc).
A merged Cumbrian franchise will never happen and is pretty unworkable. Haven and Town dispise each other and Barrow is almost 2 hours away from them up along the 'road to hell' that is the A595.
Joined: Sep 23 2006 Posts: 8033 Location: sea level once again
declaration wrote:Whitehaven would get better crowds than Celtic, be better than Celtic, and would bring more youngsters through than Celtic.
But they're not exotic. Just Cumbrian.
I doubt many of the Celtic fans would describe their club as 'exotic'.
But I do agree that if any one of Barrow, 'haven or Worky can come up with a strong enough squad and attract reasonable crowds they should be considered on an equal basis with teams from new areas.
Joined: Mar 05 2002 Posts: 48326 Location: Londinium
DABHAND wrote:Wouldn't we have been better off promoting Super League in the strongest areas of England before giving a franchise to a Welsh side.I think we are really missing out on not being able to see a Cumbrian side in the Super League,they were always known for their ability to find big rough, tough forwards.Most of todays fans will not remember the days of our tussle's at Barrow,Whitehaven and Workington.I think it is a shame that they have just been forgotten and other teams have been fast tracked.
You're going to haveto remind me: which Cumbrian club applied foran SL license last year?
Joined: Feb 25 2004 Posts: 2874 Location: Sometimes Workington, Sometimes Warrington, Often on the M6
belgianxiii wrote:Seriously, didn't Workington make preliminary enquieries, but realised quickly that they wouldn't make it.
No we didn't.
I think Whitehaven made noises about applying in 2012 though, but there's been no progress made with their new ground and they've got big financial troubles now so I guess even that is a long shot now.
Joined: Mar 07 2004 Posts: 13327 Location: A Red Muffin on the outskirts of Pie Land
Saint Simon wrote:They'll never admit it, but if one team did get into superleague, fans from the other clubs would start to turn up to watch superleague matches and the likes of saints, wigan, leeds and hull play.
That would never happen. Ask any Swinton fan if they started watching Salford when we were in SL. The same could be said for Leigh fans with Wigan and Hull KR fans with FC.
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