Barrow building for Super League.........

[so jah seh]

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/raiders

[efcviking]

Knock the place down and rebuild, it might work.

[Viking John]

I think the title of that article should be:

Raiders Start Craven Park Work In Bid For Super League...LOL!

[Viking John]

I think the title of that article should be:

Raiders Start Craven Park Work In Bid For Super League...LOL!

In-fact after reading it again it should be!

Work has already started on the club’s Hindpool home to bring it up to scratch and improve the bid chances. A new in-ground club shop is currently being built and plans to bring down the problematic roof on the Clive Street Terrace in the coming weeks are in place.

The club have already received quotes on several key areas to meet requirements. The cost of a new PA system will be £33,000, with new toilets and drainage £250,000 and new floodlights £400,000.

Any major work could be funded by the £50,000 the club received from Barrow Borough Council earlier this year, as well as by matched funding from the National Lottery or sports bodies.

The capacity can be lifted above its current 7,500, with work in setting the crush barriers in concrete foundations.

So a minimum of £680,000 is required just for a PA System, Toilets and Floodlights. And they are going to do it all with a £100,000 grant? How much is the new roof going to cost and the club shop?

If only Salford, Wakefield and Castlefield knew you could build a Super League stadium for £100,000!

Livesey said all items were being looked at, but no changes or work would be carried out unless the club was certain it met Super League regulations and boosted the club’s bid for a licence.

Brilliant quote, after running their mouth above saying they are improving the ground to help the Super League license he then says they are not actually going to do any of the work unless it helps the bid.

Sounds like they are looking to do what others have done in the past? Show the RFL a load of quotes from builders in their application. Love it!

Have these people not learnt a thing over the past few years? That's not going to cut it any more, that's why Salford, Saint Helens and Castleford are all scrambling to get new stadiums built.

“There has been a lot of conversation about Widnes being fast-tracked into Super League, but the applications have only just been issued and we are one of the applicants,”

It's just not a proper Cumbrian media article unless there is a paragraph or two mars-barring off Widnes now is it This one lives up to that Cumbrian media code of conduct!

What he is forgetting is nothing was fast tracked. It was a 3-year plan, where the club invested in infrastructure and development.

Where in those 3 years those clowns ditched their youth system, ditched their reserve squad and continued to think it's acceptable to play professional rugby league in a decrepit, crumbling shed, with not even a basic plumbing system and pile all their money into the first team? I really do feel sorry for their fans.

It's not out being fast tracked at all. It's about investing in the correct areas for the benefit and long term survivability of the club.

[so jah seh]

There is a column in the paper that doesn't show on the website and one day last week it was all about "Widnes being given the nod for Super League is the biggest joke in Rugby League...blah blah blah!" Just kept banging on about how THEY won the league LAST YEAR so should be automatic choice. Make me tizer they're so blinkered up here.

[J20]

There is a column in the paper that doesn't show on the website and one day last week it was all about "Widnes being given the nod for Super League is the biggest joke in Rugby League...blah blah blah!" Just kept banging on about how THEY won the league LAST YEAR so should be automatic choice. Make me tizer they're so blinkered up here.

I guess you mean the one from this idiot...

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/sport/columns/rugby-league-s-franchise-farce-1.762854?referrerPath=sport/columns

Title is 'RL Franchise farce' yet then it goes on to basically say it's all Widnes' fault and why the heck should we be allowed in SL??? :/

Barrow make me laugh actually, the franchise idea was up and running before they were in the Championship, they got promoted attacked it in the 'old fashioned way' and have mouthed off about it ever since like it's been brought in to stop them getting into SL!

[so jah seh]

That's the one!

[King Viking]

They are incredibly biased, probably the most rose-tinted journalists I've had the misfortune of sharing a press box with.

"Widnes – a team who have not featured in a Grand Final, let alone won one, for many years – will be the team awarded a franchise next year."

- Actually, we were in the Grand Final in successive years three and four years ago.

"Halifax, Featherstone and Barrow – the three best teams outside Super League"

- I'll give him Halifax, but we finished a point behind Barrow this season, and we finished above Featherstone last season, despite apparently being a terrible team. Of the four finals on offer, we've been 2, just as many as Barrow and Halifax, and more than Featherstone.

One of the comments that label it as a messageboard rant are bang on. The fact he gets paid to write that tripe is perhaps an indication as to why newspaper journalism is on its word.

[Spelly]

I still reckon you're pretty much already over the line, but................................

Will their Cumbria(n) location look good to the powers-that-be? I'd say a defo "Yes!" to be honest!

"Cumbria needs a Super League team!" "Cumbria deserves a Super League team!" "The Super League would benefit with a Cumbrian representative!" I can hear these words being (more than) whispered in and around Red Hall.

And before he shoots me down in flames, I realise our Sutton Coldfield member believes that Barrow is still in Lancashire!

Spelly.

[J20]

I still reckon you're pretty much already over the line, but................................

Will their Cumbria(n) location look good to the powers-that-be? I'd say a defo "Yes!" to be honest!

"Cumbria needs a Super League team!" "Cumbria deserves a Super League team!" "The Super League would benefit with a Cumbrian representative!" I can hear these words being (more than) whispered in and around Red Hall.

And before he shoots me down in flames, I realise our Sutton Coldfield member believes that Barrow is still in Lancashire!

Spelly.

The thing is Barrow have relied on hoping that the RFL will do a Crusaders and just let them in based on location, they simply can't afford to do that again.

If after they won the league Barrow cut a few players to have the money to fully run reserve side for a FULL season and also invested in say the initial formation of an academy and also started these ground works about 12months ago they'd put in a really strong bid!

But basically IMO Barrow's whole aim was to win the league again and say heh we are back to back Champions you can't say no! Yet they failed to do that and are now looking at the other things two months before bid goes in... far too little, far too late IMO!

[AB]

I still reckon you're pretty much already over the line, but................................

Will their Cumbria(n) location look good to the powers-that-be? I'd say a defo "Yes!" to be honest!

"Cumbria needs a Super League team!" "Cumbria deserves a Super League team!" "The Super League would benefit with a Cumbrian representative!" I can hear these words being (more than) whispered in and around Red Hall.

And before he shoots me down in flames, I realise our Sutton Coldfield member believes that Barrow is still in Lancashire!

Spelly.

Cumbria may need a SL club, but do SL want one? Most clubs have to do enough travelling to london, france and MM (Crusaders aint so bad as they have moved north), I dont think they want to add cumbra to that. It's not cheap to get there

[GRIFFIN]

Barrow WILL NOT BE AWARDED A LICENCE in march 2011 as thsey do not meet the minimum criteriia this is a fact. If Halifax manage to fond a £1 million turnover, they are the only team who could challenge us and i doubt they will with theie dodgy finances last year. The only way Barrow could get in is through general aplications next year as an expansion club, but they are still a long way behind the poorest existing SL club.

[cumbriachemic]

I think a lot of Barrow fans hate Widnes. After the last match of the season a woman came out of that building next to the exit gates just as me and the family were walking past, she was almost having an orgasm and yelling and shaking her fist that the drubbing couldnt have happned to a better team. actualy her manner wouldnt have been out of place at the Nuremberg rally.

Then after the day before the NRC final we were having a meal in a pub near Blackpool and happned to be sat near some Barrow fans, I was quite friendly when we went in but they certainly wernt (it was a family). Then as tempratures sored in the resteraunt we opened the door slightly (after asking the staff if we could) and they demanded it closed as thier daughter was cold. It was boiling in there. What a contrast to the Halifax team who were also in the restaurant and had just  wone the nines trophey and went out of their way to let me take the little lads photo with them

[Peter]

I still reckon you're pretty much already over the line, but................................

Will their Cumbria(n) location look good to the powers-that-be? I'd say a defo "Yes!" to be honest!

"Cumbria needs a Super League team!" "Cumbria deserves a Super League team!" "The Super League would benefit with a Cumbrian representative!" I can hear these words being (more than) whispered in and around Red Hall.

And before he shoots me down in flames, I realise our Sutton Coldfield member believes that Barrow is still in Lancashire!

Spelly.

And it is! Quite rightly so, too. Barrow is in Furness shire which joined up with Lancashire about the time of the Magna Carta. Widnes is in Lancashire, because the Queen said so, and, after all, she is the Duke of Lancaster.

Stanley Holloway also said so:

"One Banks of the Mersey o'er on Cheshire side,
Lies Runcorn as is well known to fame,
By Transporter Bridge that takes folk o'er its stream
Or else brings them back across same,

etc etc till the last lines

"In the spirit that make Lancashire what she is,
They'd rather be drownded than done."

[alanC]

Barrow WILL NOT BE AWARDED A LICENCE in march 2011 as thsey do not meet the minimum criteriia this is a fact. If Halifax manage to fond a £1 million turnover, they are the only team who could challenge us and i doubt they will with theie dodgy finances last year. The only way Barrow could get in is through general aplications next year as an expansion club, but they are still a long way behind the poorest existing SL club.

How many of the criteria do they actually meet? is it just the on field box they tick?