Quote ="Sir Kevin Sinfield"Firstly congratulations to London on winning the Million Pound Game. Danny Ward has done a fantastic job with I’d imagine smaller budgets than Toronto, Leigh and perhaps Featherstone and Toulouse.
However is the Trailfinders Sports Ground really good enough to meet the minimum criteria of stadium for a Super League club? I would say no it is not. It looks like an amateur clubs ground.
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No, it clearly doesn't meet the criteria. However, criteria were essentially abandoned whe we returned to promotion and relegation. We can either have a criteria-based system for deciding who is in the top flight, or we can have a purely performance-based system. At the moment, we have the latter.
I guess on the plus side there's a good chance London will geta few sell-outs next year, as the travelling fans of the bigger clubs will easily fill out Trailfinders alongside the local support.
