Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"If Toronto makes Super League in September then the club must sign some quality NRL players. At least two backs and three forwards.
What a pity that we don't know Toronto's Super League prospects right now because the club could snare Jarryd Hayne, who is off contract at the end of this year, while finally showing some top form. He is the kind of person who loves a foreign adventure, as we know. Parramatta want to retain him, and have made him an offer, so I suspect that he will make a decision to stay at Parramatta before Toronto's fate is determined.
The RFL's promotion and relegation system, with its late season outcome, is what makes it hard for newly promoted clubs to attract top quality players. That is one of many important arguments for licensing.'"
This is the very reason why promotion and relegation no longer works. We follow the soccer system and we shouldn't! The league structure is modeled on soccer, the Challenge Cup comp is modeled on soccer's FA Cup even 'having' to use Wembley because it's 'tradional'! Tradition has cost many clubs existence!
Let soccer have its own system and culture and keep RL to it's own innovative and separate methods. For mine the NRL system is better. They are far pro-active with marketing, presentation and promotion of the code. They are 20 year ahead OFF the pitch! It's not down to money either! It's down to employing the right creative personnel who can deliver! We saw this with the late Peter Deakin who kick-started the whole Bullmainia thing. He had a shoestring budget (typical UK RL club chairman who stuck in their own stubborn ideas don't believe in marketing but Caisley bought into it) for goodness sake.
