Quote ="Wooden Stand"Potential big hitter financial backers (I'm aware of two) are put off (to say the least) from backing one of our non-Super League clubs as, primarily, there is no automatic promotion/relegation, and, because of the Salary Cap nonsense, they can't put together a team that would be pretty sure of gaining promotion to Super League anyway. Their next idea is to consider entering a team in another competition. The French domestic league, unfortunately, doesn't meet the required criteria and isn't a runner. What about the NRL? The pros would be the profile, big home crowds and a potential TV deal independent of Sky eg BT Vision. The implications would probably be a need for a group of players Australia based, another group UK based, and a further group (probably younger, single players) who would fly backwards and forwards between Aus and UK after each match. Things up for negotiation would be whether: a) the NRL would allow all the 'away' matches to be played in the first half of the season and all the 'home' matches in the second half of the season or b) if a UK based NRL club could play ALL its matches (except play-off matches) in the UK if it contributed largely to the NRL clubs' travel & accomodation costs.'" As ludicrous as the OP sounds, the NFL are seriously ready to start up a team in London!!! www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100000 ... n-nfl-team Strange things are possible in these modern times!

Quote ="Wooden Stand"Potential big hitter financial backers (I'm aware of two) are put off (to say the least) from backing one of our non-Super League clubs as, primarily, there is no automatic promotion/relegation, and, because of the Salary Cap nonsense, they can't put together a team that would be pretty sure of gaining promotion to Super League anyway. Their next idea is to consider entering a team in another competition. The French domestic league, unfortunately, doesn't meet the required criteria and isn't a runner. What about the NRL? The pros would be the profile, big home crowds and a potential TV deal independent of Sky eg BT Vision. The implications would probably be a need for a group of players Australia based, another group UK based, and a further group (probably younger, single players) who would fly backwards and forwards between Aus and UK after each match. Things up for negotiation would be whether: a) the NRL would allow all the 'away' matches to be played in the first half of the season and all the 'home' matches in the second half of the season or b) if a UK based NRL club could play ALL its matches (except play-off matches) in the UK if it contributed largely to the NRL clubs' travel & accomodation costs.'" As ludicrous as the OP sounds, the NFL are seriously ready to start up a team in London!!! www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100000 ... n-nfl-team Strange things are possible in these modern times!

GB don't play anymore.

This is the problem with freedom of speech. Trust someone who is for promotion and relegation to come up with this idea.

but...

An idea I had a few years back is not too much different. Why not have a team in the NRL that play in Australia owned by the RFL or SLE. You could have it in say Perth were there are not many juniors and use it to expose British players to the NRL for a few seasons before bringing their experence back home. A lot of our top players had sort spells out in the NRL Joynt and Connolly in the 90's are great examples. Both came back much better players. How good would Kallum Watkins, Leroy Cudjoe or Lee Mossop be if they had a couple of years on loan in the Superleague NRL team.

The question is would the NRL an Australians want such a team?
Probably not.

haha, we can't get expansion teams with areas crying out for a side, you think they will admit an english team?

Which loser on here keeps spamming me on Facebook?