YORK Wasps players, fans and officials were playing a waiting game today as the countdown begun towards their proposed comeback.

The Rugby Football League Council will meet tomorrow, with the Wasps business plan to be readmitted to the Northern Ford Premiership this season set to be the key talking point.

The Wasps handed over the business plan to the RFL board of directors yesterday for them to discuss ahead of the council meeting, leaving the club waiting on tenterhooks for any response.

Mike Miller, one of the working party members, told the Evening Press today:"I'm still waiting for a phone call from the Rugby League board of directors.

"I spoke to Nigel Wood (RFL's director of operations) yesterday when I handed over the business plan ahead of their meeting.

"We had a quick chat as he had already seen a draft copy of the business plan before. I asked him whether there was anything else he wanted and he said he would give us a ring back last night or this morning to let us know.

"The directors need to look it over before the meeting to say 'yes, no or you need to supply... to it'.

"The council meeting will happen though - if we've come this far, they are not likely to say no at this stage."

Miller and working party colleague Roger Dixon will be at Red Hall tomorrow in a bid to convince the representatives from each of the 30 other clubs in the Super League and the NFP that York should been handed its place back.

And after five weeks of hard graft in trying to resurrect the club, the future of the Wasps could come down to the vote at the end of the meeting.

"We've been told that it won't be a case of going along and just sitting there, we will have to get up and sell it (the business plan) to them," said Miller. "After that it is down to a show of hands almost.

"I'm not entirely sure how the vote will take place or whether we will need a two-thirds majority or that, but we will probably be sent out while it happens.

"They may tell us the result immediately afterwards or they may say that they will let us know - hopefully we will find out quite quickly. We'd like to know as soon as we can."

Confidence among the Wasps camp ahead of the monumental meeting is good - with the appointment of the well-respected Steve Ferres buoying the mood further - and Miller feels there is just one obstacle in the club's way of a planned comeback against Huddersfield Giants on June 2.

"The only problem is that is now mid-season," he added. "We will have effectively missed three games with Gateshead Thunder at the start, Hull KR during the middle of the cup and then the Swinton game which was rearranged for May 19.

"Ideally we will have that game rearranged as well, but if we have to play it then we will."

Updated: 15:17 Tuesday, April 30, 2002