They have been aided by rfl finance all the way through their fasttracking into SL at the expense of other NL clubs, playing more overseas players than other NL clubs, these players were all here illegaly also.
They are just not ready for SL because of the mass rush to get them in, they haven't been able to build a stable club, home or identity.
They have got away with paying less than half of what they owed the RFL, no other club would be allowed.
As for the link, it means nothing, the whole northern hemisphere game at international level is going backwards as a result of SL, the loss of GB means England cannot field a strong enough team to challenge either oz or nz, but could still hammer either France or Wales, England are effectively in limbo and France and Wales will never really get any where near England unless they had either 3 or 4 SL sides or a pro league of their own.
The whole international system up here is out of kilter, standards are going down not up, this experiment has not worke for any teams other than southern hemisphere ones as all their crap comes here so they can blood their youngsters. 10 or 15 years ago it was all Ireland and look what's happened there, my mate was RL development officer in Ireland back then, and he was only in it for the pi$$ up and because someone at the RFL thought it was a good idea at the time.
Sorry Toulouse old boy, your miles off!!!

They have been aided by rfl finance all the way through their fasttracking into SL at the expense of other NL clubs, playing more overseas players than other NL clubs, these players were all here illegaly also.
They are just not ready for SL because of the mass rush to get them in, they haven't been able to build a stable club, home or identity.
They have got away with paying less than half of what they owed the RFL, no other club would be allowed.
As for the link, it means nothing, the whole northern hemisphere game at international level is going backwards as a result of SL, the loss of GB means England cannot field a strong enough team to challenge either oz or nz, but could still hammer either France or Wales, England are effectively in limbo and France and Wales will never really get any where near England unless they had either 3 or 4 SL sides or a pro league of their own.
The whole international system up here is out of kilter, standards are going down not up, this experiment has not worke for any teams other than southern hemisphere ones as all their crap comes here so they can blood their youngsters. 10 or 15 years ago it was all Ireland and look what's happened there, my mate was RL development officer in Ireland back then, and he was only in it for the pi$$ up and because someone at the RFL thought it was a good idea at the time.
Sorry Toulouse old boy, your miles off!!!