i dont think you should just chuck them out but i would demote them if they go insolvent and give another club ago in SL ,they add nothing tbh if the local peaple dont back SL then you have to give it too someone else who will ,tbf they where dropped in at the deep end too soon they need to build up interest in wales over years

Rugby League has been growing at grass roots level in London with more people than ever playing the game at amateur level.

The game is getting a foothold - it's a slow and painstaking business but progress has definitely been made.

The demise of Harlequins RL would put all this back IMO and that is why the RFL would not let it happen.

Now that FC are making a profit, should they pay the bail out money back to the RFL to assist other clubs, after all, without it they would be in NL at best or even out of business.

how much do owe roughly? if they was to pay it back?

Figure varied in the press, but they had their debts cleared and a full set of players, directors and coaches thrown in. Probably in excess of a million.

i'm grateful now and glad it happened but a million quid is quite laughable when you think about it... just think most of the noddies at hull city earn that and more in a year for been bab!

Why do I sense this topic turning into another rovers vs hull topic.

Because we have made a loss.............why else

can you really blame them, look at all the gloating at rubbing of hands, expecially by Lilley when hull were financially in the same position, and i'm sure iirc with debts less than yours. and before you say anything, even though we joined together with gatehead, to stay alive, we didn't deserve it, and if we had gone out of business or relegated to div2 even so be it.

You would think that after all these years, clubs and the RFL would be able to be organise themselves to be in a position of stability, but they seem to be just getting worse, not better