00:00Yes, so obviously York and Toulouse, London, and probably the other two I'd add to that
00:08would be Widnes and Oldham. So in terms of the clubs that we already understood undergrading,
00:13we wouldn't really need to take through this process. Obviously there's two existing Super
00:17League clubs, and relatively early on in the grading process, sorry, in the panel process,
00:22the grading points came through that showed that Bradford would probably be there undergrading
00:26anyway. So we focused on everybody else, and I spoke to everybody yesterday afternoon,
00:32but Widnes and Oldham did a really good job of an application, from lower down in the
00:36grading criteria pyramid if you like, and really displayed a strong level of information and
00:42an objective to progress. I think everyone kind of assumed it was going to be two from
00:50three with Toulouse, York and London. How have the Broncos reacted to you? I mean, they've
00:57put a statement out this morning saying they're all in for the Championship, have they sort
01:01of intimated similar to you?
01:02Yeah, very much so. So I spoke to them yesterday afternoon, and we had a really good and detailed
01:07and quite long conversation. Lord Kane as chair of the panel has undertaken to feedback,
01:13if clubs wish to, anybody that applied. I did a bit of feedback last night, we'd agreed
01:19bullet points if you like, core bits of feedback, we can do that in a bit more detail next week
01:24with individual clubs, individual clubs if they wish to. But I think they reflected to
01:32me yesterday afternoon exactly what they reflected this morning, a year in the Championship, or
01:37maybe longer, but for them they would hope a year in the Championship. Probably to embed
01:41some of those back office, some of those objectives, some of that progress that they want to make,
01:47probably particularly off field. But they were, they engaged really strongly in the process,
01:54and I said this to all of the five clubs I spoke to yesterday afternoon. In a process that's
02:00relatively, of a relatively short period of time, clubs engaged, they fed back, they provided
02:06additional information, and they did that on a really positive and timely basis, which made
02:10it easier for the panel to assess and move through week by week. So largely the feedback
02:14from the Broncos was exactly as you've seen this morning. They were disappointed, but they
02:19understood the core points of what the panel fed back to them, and they were very clear about
02:23positive engagement in the Championship next year.
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