Absolutely fantastic news.

Jedva Cekam!

Good news for RSB ,as they`re a team who have actually got roots within Serbia. Hope they do well and are admitted.Not looking forward to the usual suspects derailling every thread to reinforce their stance.

I dont think that Belgrade are but, Toronto on the other hand will have to rely on the UK and "Aus" for as long as I'm left breathing.
If we are to expand into new areas, it cannot be at the expense of existing clubs that are fulfilling their obligations to develop young players atc, it's just wrong and in the long term will kill the game.
As I said, Belgrade dont come into this category and aren't 3500 miles away so, good luck to them.

Good. Finally someone hard enough to sort out Warrington's Ultras.

They certainly do. This is the best news I have heard since the announcements of New York and Ottawa. Combine Red Star Belgrade with Toronto, New York, Ottawa, Toulouse, and Catalans, and you will have six non-English teams --- a truly international transatlantic Super League. What a future for rugby league!

3 clubs in the top flight incapable of producing their own players sounds like a great way to secure the games future plus, Catalan and Toulouse fighting over just a handful of French players.
It all seems a far cry form clubs having to have a particular number of "club trained" players in their squad - a rule brought in to try ensure that SL clubs were "doing their bit" for the future of the game. Suddenly, a player trained in Wigan or Leeds is equal to being from Canada



Of course, the new sides could be the first seeds of the game expanding beyond the heartlands of the North of England, which should be applauded but, is their any kind of long term strategy or, is this more finger crossing and desperation form our sport.

Think you're doing a massive disservice to the French amateur game there. They have country's worth of players to themselves between them. Cas and Wakey have a far smaller catchment, and even then will have competition from more successful sides further afield (e.g Wigan's best young prospect is from Halifax, but we couldn't realistically poach a youngster from South France).

You are one of the only anti Toronto brigade who actually comes up with reasonable counter arguments, rather than "I don't want foreign teams"
I see you as more a sceptic rather than totally anti expansion anyway.

I am an expansionist but in favour of controlled planned expansion and I am not really a massively fan of Toronto I have always been in favour of at least 1 if not 2 French teams rather than North America, but I do love how it winds up the flat capper types.

I agree, there are in theory plenty of French players.
However, how many are capable of making the grade in SL ??

If there were many more players that were good enough then, surely, some more would have either made it at Catalan or, elsewhere in the sport.
I wonder how many Frenchman have ever made it in Australia ?

If they can achieve promotion, Toulouse would be a great addition to SL and a French derby game, where both sides were of equal standing would be great - I'd actually want to go as a neutral.

They're all made of the same meat and bones as English lads, and some of the French amateur sides are at least on a par with ours (one just came over a few months ago and beat Judes, Mayfield etc u18s). Just a matter of developing them from amateurs to SL players.

Fantastic idea. If only someone had thought of it before?

Elite 1 & 2 are very average from the streams I have seen, with many of the "stars' of those competitions being from the Southern Hemisphere. The reality is there isn't the money nor the pathway for youngsters to play the game, with may decent players, gong to the cash-rich Union competitions. Rugby league in Southern France cannot be compared to Rugby League in England. Sale is the only top union side in the north of England and they struggle to attract 7k to games whilst in France, 12 of their top sides are plying their trade in the Southern region with all of them attracting the same or more than Catalans. Toulouse RFC average 20k+ whilst their RL neigbours attracted 10% of that number.

It's all well and good saying "turing the amateurs pro", but a whole different matter actually doing it.


As for Serbia. Whilst it would be great for them to step up, I seem to recall them being "prepared for L1 entry in 2020 back in 2018, when they entered the Challenge cup in 2019, only to bale this year because of lack of funds and players being unable to commit.
[urlhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/7377097/red-star-belgrade-given-place-in-next-years-rugby-league-challenge-cup/[/url
Like Ottawa and NY, talk is cheap, but stepping up costs money as Argyle has claimed.
If RSB/Ottawa/NYC all join L1 in 2021. then the part-timers of West Wales will be looking at multiple "long weekends" off work, whilst the owners of those clubs will face the possibility of having additional costs heaped upon them. If NYC sign a couple of the fantastic players mentioned in dispatches, then the "competition" will be a race for 2nd spot, with another team of overpaid (for that level) journeymen waltzing through the season being hailed as the silver bullet that RL needs.


As for Red Star. They were comprehensively defeated in 2019 by a team from the 7th tier of the sport, so why they would be considered for entry at the 3rd tier is another question that needs answering, but it won't even be asked by the insane brigade who believe that League needs teams in the far flung corners of the world to attract more attention and therefore money. To those people I ask this:

"With the newspaper columns around the world and TV/Media coverage that they have attracted, how much revenue have Toronto Wolfpack delivered to the game?
I am aware they cost the UK game nothing, but that is not the question.

If you can't find yourself willing or able to give a straight answer to this question, then maybe try and answer this one:

"With the newspaper columns around the world and TV/Media coverage that they have attracted, how have Toronto Wolfpack benefited the game in a non-fiscal OR indirect sense?

Have TV companies tripped over themselves to get involved? Have major Blue Chip (non-betting ones) companies aligned themselves with the game? Have thousands of young Canadian Youths boarded planes to the M62 to learn the game? Have stars of Rugby Union flocked to follow the show pony SBW? Have Amateur sides sprung up all over Ontario with age group sides as well as open age teams? Has the Canadian Media flocked to buy TV rights for games? Have ticket Touts already bought all the season tickets in the hope of fetching $200 a seat for the visit of Huddersfield Giants



I am all for expansion. If Red Star wat to play a better standard of RL, let them firstly join Elite 2 in France, work their way up and then apply once they are proven, but don't drop them into a comp that they are evidently not good enough for!

No future at all given that none of these clubs will get a TV deal that pays anything. SKY will stop paying if the League isn't predominantly English. So it's a non-starter that if attempted would destroy RL in the Northern Hemisphere. If you don't understand these simple realities your better off not posting.

UNLESS you or Steph can tell us where the TV deal will come from? come on - give me facts and actual quotes, gimme the evidence......

No, and are highly unlikely to do so.

It’s you thats The fraud. Not us. You can’t offer any evidence then when you are called out on it, ask us to provide evidence for the opposite of what you say. Lmao

Quote ="Steph Curry"It’s you thats The fraud. Not us. You can’t offer any evidence then when you are called out on it, ask us to provide evidence for the opposite of what you say. Lmao'" I gave you the evidence of McManus's article on the issue of overseas clubs - now try this https://www.totalrl.com/adam-pearson-ou ... -invasion/ So again I come up with actual evidence. Once again, the Superleague bosses are not going to sell out and destroy the game here, which is kept alive only by a paying English TV deal. The articles from McManus and Pearson made it clear (not that you can understand this stuff) that Superleague and SKY will not be relegating English clubs out of Superleague for phoney clubs abroad, not even Toulouse and with Supeleague set to go down to 10 clubs there'll be no place for Les Catalans and their English X111. These articles from McManus and Pearson were written on behalf of Superleague and were enough to see both Ottawa and New York pack in any idea of starting up. They will simply not be admitted to a post 2021 Superleague of ten clubs who all need to be English (a) to satisfy SKY and (b) to have enough academies to produce players. The American dream is in it's death throes and France are likely to go the same way. Now you show me proof the Transatlantic League is the way it will go?

Quote ="Steph Curry"It’s you thats The fraud. Not us. You can’t offer any evidence then when you are called out on it, ask us to provide evidence for the opposite of what you say. Lmao'" I gave you the evidence of McManus's article on the issue of overseas clubs - now try this https://www.totalrl.com/adam-pearson-ou ... -invasion/ So again I come up with actual evidence. Once again, the Superleague bosses are not going to sell out and destroy the game here, which is kept alive only by a paying English TV deal. The articles from McManus and Pearson made it clear (not that you can understand this stuff) that Superleague and SKY will not be relegating English clubs out of Superleague for phoney clubs abroad, not even Toulouse and with Supeleague set to go down to 10 clubs there'll be no place for Les Catalans and their English X111. These articles from McManus and Pearson were written on behalf of Superleague and were enough to see both Ottawa and New York pack in any idea of starting up. They will simply not be admitted to a post 2021 Superleague of ten clubs who all need to be English (a) to satisfy SKY and (b) to have enough academies to produce players. The American dream is in it's death throes and France are likely to go the same way. Now you show me proof the Transatlantic League is the way it will go?

Quote ="Donnyman"I gave you the evidence of McManus's article on the issue of overseas clubs - now try this https://www.totalrl.com/adam-pearson-ou ... -invasion/ So again I come up with actual evidence. Once again, the Superleague bosses are not going to sell out and destroy the game here, which is kept alive only by a paying English TV deal. The articles from McManus and Pearson made it clear (not that you can understand this stuff) that Superleague and SKY will not be relegating English clubs out of Superleague for phoney clubs abroad, not even Toulouse and with Supeleague set to go down to 10 clubs there'll be no place for Les Catalans and their English X111. These articles from McManus and Pearson were written on behalf of Superleague and were enough to see both Ottawa and New York pack in any idea of starting up. They will simply not be admitted to a post 2021 Superleague of ten clubs who all need to be English (a) to satisfy SKY and (b) to have enough academies to produce players. The American dream is in it's death throes and France are likely to go the same way. Now you show me proof the Transatlantic League is the way it will go?'" You ask Steph Curry and me for evidence of our claims. So how about you providing evidence for your wild allegation that Super League is set to go down to ten clubs. Of course with the arrival of Toronto this year and possibly Toulouse next year, to be followed later by New York and Ottawa, perhaps with super stars like Latrell Mitchell on their roster (Latrell has only signed with South Sydney for a maximum of two years), there will be an argument for Super League expanding to 14 clubs.

Quote ="Donnyman"I gave you the evidence of McManus's article on the issue of overseas clubs - now try this https://www.totalrl.com/adam-pearson-ou ... -invasion/ So again I come up with actual evidence. Once again, the Superleague bosses are not going to sell out and destroy the game here, which is kept alive only by a paying English TV deal. The articles from McManus and Pearson made it clear (not that you can understand this stuff) that Superleague and SKY will not be relegating English clubs out of Superleague for phoney clubs abroad, not even Toulouse and with Supeleague set to go down to 10 clubs there'll be no place for Les Catalans and their English X111. These articles from McManus and Pearson were written on behalf of Superleague and were enough to see both Ottawa and New York pack in any idea of starting up. They will simply not be admitted to a post 2021 Superleague of ten clubs who all need to be English (a) to satisfy SKY and (b) to have enough academies to produce players. The American dream is in it's death throes and France are likely to go the same way. Now you show me proof the Transatlantic League is the way it will go?'" You ask Steph Curry and me for evidence of our claims. So how about you providing evidence for your wild allegation that Super League is set to go down to ten clubs. Of course with the arrival of Toronto this year and possibly Toulouse next year, to be followed later by New York and Ottawa, perhaps with super stars like Latrell Mitchell on their roster (Latrell has only signed with South Sydney for a maximum of two years), there will be an argument for Super League expanding to 14 clubs.

Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"More absurdities from Parksider. You ask Steph Curry and me for evidence of our claims. So how about you providing evidence for your wild allegation that Super League is set to go down to ten clubs. Of course with the arrival of Toronto this year and possibly Toulouse next year, to be followed later by New York and Ottawa, perhaps with super stars like Latrell Mitchell on their roster (Latrell has only signed with South Sydney for a maximum of two years), there will be an argument for Super League expanding to 14 clubs.'" Here is the first article on the attempt to have a 10 club Superleague and a ten club feeder league underneath it https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/5610037/ ... tier-plan/ The plan would have brought 20 clubs under Superleague control, and cut adrift 17 clubs who would have remained under the RFL's control. Given Superleague don't want to be an international league for the very good reason that SKY who want an English league for English subs meant that there would be no room for overseas clubs. In short SL tried to break away from the RFL and leave the RFL with TWP, Catalans, TO, New York, Ottawa, Belgrade, Vancouver, Jacksonville, Boston, Montreal, Hemel Hempstead, Coventry, Hunslet, West Wales etc etc etc. The vote went against the Superleague, but Superleague still intend to re-visit 10 clubs at the next contract when they agree a new deal with SKY, and when they won't be bound by any current agreement with the RFL. There is no argument for 14 clubs because the quality player pool has been reducing. SL was 14 clubs when the game thought expansion to Wales and France would bring in dozens of new quality players. It didn't, and so they dropped to 12 clubs in 2015 and that was when they first considered going to 10 clubs. Given the player pool is still limited due to Catalans failure to develop many French lads and the total failure of TWP to even start development (and no TV deals from theses places) the SL clubs are likely to go to 10 English clubs 2022 for the following reasons. 1. Not enough quality players for 12 clubs - SKY needs quality matches week on week. 2. The SKY deal WILL be lower so to keep their share of the money up, again SL clubs want to cut to 10 clubs 3. Overseas clubs cannot get TV contracts nor develop many quality players....WHY SHOULD ENGLISH CLUBS SHARE THEIR TV MONEY AND PLAYERS?????. You and Steph are ignorant of the facts and the events as they have played out, and I do not mean that as an insult. I don't expect fans to follow in depth the politics of the game, but I do expect them to not question or insult me when I present them to you.

Quote ="JEAN CAPDOUZE"More absurdities from Parksider. You ask Steph Curry and me for evidence of our claims. So how about you providing evidence for your wild allegation that Super League is set to go down to ten clubs. Of course with the arrival of Toronto this year and possibly Toulouse next year, to be followed later by New York and Ottawa, perhaps with super stars like Latrell Mitchell on their roster (Latrell has only signed with South Sydney for a maximum of two years), there will be an argument for Super League expanding to 14 clubs.'" Here is the first article on the attempt to have a 10 club Superleague and a ten club feeder league underneath it https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/5610037/ ... tier-plan/ The plan would have brought 20 clubs under Superleague control, and cut adrift 17 clubs who would have remained under the RFL's control. Given Superleague don't want to be an international league for the very good reason that SKY who want an English league for English subs meant that there would be no room for overseas clubs. In short SL tried to break away from the RFL and leave the RFL with TWP, Catalans, TO, New York, Ottawa, Belgrade, Vancouver, Jacksonville, Boston, Montreal, Hemel Hempstead, Coventry, Hunslet, West Wales etc etc etc. The vote went against the Superleague, but Superleague still intend to re-visit 10 clubs at the next contract when they agree a new deal with SKY, and when they won't be bound by any current agreement with the RFL. There is no argument for 14 clubs because the quality player pool has been reducing. SL was 14 clubs when the game thought expansion to Wales and France would bring in dozens of new quality players. It didn't, and so they dropped to 12 clubs in 2015 and that was when they first considered going to 10 clubs. Given the player pool is still limited due to Catalans failure to develop many French lads and the total failure of TWP to even start development (and no TV deals from theses places) the SL clubs are likely to go to 10 English clubs 2022 for the following reasons. 1. Not enough quality players for 12 clubs - SKY needs quality matches week on week. 2. The SKY deal WILL be lower so to keep their share of the money up, again SL clubs want to cut to 10 clubs 3. Overseas clubs cannot get TV contracts nor develop many quality players....WHY SHOULD ENGLISH CLUBS SHARE THEIR TV MONEY AND PLAYERS?????. You and Steph are ignorant of the facts and the events as they have played out, and I do not mean that as an insult. I don't expect fans to follow in depth the politics of the game, but I do expect them to not question or insult me when I present them to you.

If Latrell Mitchell and other stars will be available for Superleague 2022 don't you get it that the English SL clubs will close ranks and make sure only one of their English club chairmen will sign him like Caddick, Moran, Davey etc. How naive are you to believe in 2022 Superleague will allow the best Aussies to go play in France, Canada, USA, Serbia for half their time.

THINK ABOUT IT MAN Both the English clubs and the EnglishSKY Sports will 100% want the best players playing in England every week.

You and Steph are also very Naive, and again not meant as an insult. Please try to accept these realities.

Quote ="Donnyman"Here is the first article on the attempt to have a 10 club Superleague and a ten club feeder league underneath it https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/5610037/ ... tier-plan/ The plan would have brought 20 clubs under Superleague control, and cut adrift 17 clubs who would have remained under the RFL's control. Given Superleague don't want to be an international league for the very good reason that SKY who want an English league for English subs meant that there would be no room for overseas clubs. In short SL tried to break away from the RFL and leave the RFL with TWP, Catalans, TO, New York, Ottawa, Belgrade, Vancouver, Jacksonville, Boston, Montreal, Hemel Hempstead, Coventry, Hunslet, West Wales etc etc etc. The vote went against the Superleague, but Superleague still intend to re-visit 10 clubs at the next contract when they agree a new deal with SKY, and when they won't be bound by any current agreement with the RFL. There is no argument for 14 clubs because the quality player pool has been reducing. SL was 14 clubs when the game thought expansion to Wales and France would bring in dozens of new quality players. It didn't, and so they dropped to 12 clubs in 2015 and that was when they first considered going to 10 clubs. Given the player pool is still limited due to Catalans failure to develop many French lads and the total failure of TWP to even start development (and no TV deals from theses places) the SL clubs are likely to go to 10 English clubs 2022 for the following reasons. 1. Not enough quality players for 12 clubs - SKY needs quality matches week on week. 2. The SKY deal WILL be lower so to keep their share of the money up, again SL clubs want to cut to 10 clubs 3. Overseas clubs cannot get TV contracts nor develop many quality players....WHY SHOULD ENGLISH CLUBS SHARE THEIR TV MONEY AND PLAYERS?????. You and Steph are ignorant of the facts and the events as they have played out, and I do not mean that as an insult. I don't expect fans to follow in depth the politics of the game, but I do expect them to not question or insult me when I present them to you.'" The article you linked to said nothing about excluding overseas clubs, in fact it included Catalans, Toulouse, Toronto and New York. You’ve said several times on several threads SL don’t want overseas clubs, can you link to anything or provide any evidence for that claim?

Quote ="Donnyman"Here is the first article on the attempt to have a 10 club Superleague and a ten club feeder league underneath it https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/5610037/ ... tier-plan/ The plan would have brought 20 clubs under Superleague control, and cut adrift 17 clubs who would have remained under the RFL's control. Given Superleague don't want to be an international league for the very good reason that SKY who want an English league for English subs meant that there would be no room for overseas clubs. In short SL tried to break away from the RFL and leave the RFL with TWP, Catalans, TO, New York, Ottawa, Belgrade, Vancouver, Jacksonville, Boston, Montreal, Hemel Hempstead, Coventry, Hunslet, West Wales etc etc etc. The vote went against the Superleague, but Superleague still intend to re-visit 10 clubs at the next contract when they agree a new deal with SKY, and when they won't be bound by any current agreement with the RFL. There is no argument for 14 clubs because the quality player pool has been reducing. SL was 14 clubs when the game thought expansion to Wales and France would bring in dozens of new quality players. It didn't, and so they dropped to 12 clubs in 2015 and that was when they first considered going to 10 clubs. Given the player pool is still limited due to Catalans failure to develop many French lads and the total failure of TWP to even start development (and no TV deals from theses places) the SL clubs are likely to go to 10 English clubs 2022 for the following reasons. 1. Not enough quality players for 12 clubs - SKY needs quality matches week on week. 2. The SKY deal WILL be lower so to keep their share of the money up, again SL clubs want to cut to 10 clubs 3. Overseas clubs cannot get TV contracts nor develop many quality players....WHY SHOULD ENGLISH CLUBS SHARE THEIR TV MONEY AND PLAYERS?????. You and Steph are ignorant of the facts and the events as they have played out, and I do not mean that as an insult. I don't expect fans to follow in depth the politics of the game, but I do expect them to not question or insult me when I present them to you.'" The article you linked to said nothing about excluding overseas clubs, in fact it included Catalans, Toulouse, Toronto and New York. You’ve said several times on several threads SL don’t want overseas clubs, can you link to anything or provide any evidence for that claim?

To be fair to Donny, he has quoted articles that the RL printed but in some cases did not replicate on-line.
Here's an article that highlights the "concerns" some SL decision makers have regarding overseas based clubs
[urlhttps://www.totalrl.com/adam-pearson-outlines-super-leagues-concerns-on-overseas-invasion/[/url

Here's the stance of the RFL as of Jan 13th
[urlhttps://www.totalrl.com/england-coaching-situation-and-north-america-expansion-bids-set-for-resolution/[/url


So it looks like Ottawa and NYC will be facing further delays whilst RSB won't be joining in the near future......

Yes I can and I have done this already. The problem here (not having a go at you) is people talk off the top of their head then somehow demand "evidence" from others.

The first relevant article was some years back when Toulouse asked SL to consider them for Superleague. Four SL chairmen went to see them led by Lenegan who supported the idea, but they were clear that Toulouse needed to provide [ievidence of the development of French players capable of playing at Superleague level, a viable financial plan and a paying French television deal [/i. When Toronto came along Perez did an interview with Dave Woods Wood (it's on you tube) and offered the business plan required 1. (Argylles heavy backing) 2. the development of grid iron players into SL quality players "pretty quickly" and 3. the capture of a paying NATV deal. The qualifications needed to enter Superleague were very clear. please look this up and watch it)

Once the championship play off started this year McManus came out in an Article in the RL press entitled "SL needs the French" which basically argued TWP could not be allowed in Superleague unless they started to "produce players". He stated France had a player infrastructure and that they could possibly get a TV deal if both Catalans and TO were in Superleague. You have to note this article merely favoured Toulouse over Toronto, at a time when the winner of the Championship would go up regardless of what SL bosses wanted and needed due to a signed agreement from some years back. Had Leigh won it there would have been no problem.

But what SL bosses most definitely needed was at least [i"9 English clubs in Superleague"[/i which was a minimum requirement of the SKY contract which I think appeared in an earlier Adam Pearson interview. A later Pearson interview after TWP were promoted opined that the [i"issue of expansion needed looking at".[/i

Running alongside this narrative of the problems SL clubs had with overseas clubs (no TV deals and no player development apart from some development at Catalans) was Superleague's proposal last year to cut to 10 clubs in Superleague. This was very big news and serious stuff that went to a vote championship clubs scuppered.

Now it doesn't take a genius to work out who Superleague want in Superleague does it? Wigan (Lenegan) Saints (McManus) Warrington (Moran) Castleford (Fulton) Wakefield (Carter) HKR (Hudgell) Leeds (Caddick) Hull (Pearson) Huddersfield (Davey) Leigh (Beaumont).......

My question of you now is how do you fit "expansion" into a new SKY deal Superleague, that by Superleagues own published plans is likely to be a 10 club all-English league. How do you do this when the first club knocking on the door to join in later will be a Nigel Wood and Eric Perez led Bradford Bulls? The above is the basic story of "expansion" in which I can only conclude.....

1. Failed to provide overseas paying TV deals of any kind
2. Failed to provide a significant number of French/NA professionals apart from Catalans who could field a decent French 7 a side team after 14 years??

What's your view on this, I'd be interested in a non Jean/Steph style "Transatlantic league is Le future" soundbite??

Why is it the individual clubs responsibility to find a Tv deal? It's like the chicken before the egg scenario. Why can't they follow the Nrl model where the broadcaster pays for the sport regardless of what teams are in the league? Then if Sky want a certain team in the league, they can pay more $ in the broadcast deal.

Has a representative from Sky ever publicly stated that they would more English teams or is it just wild speculation on our behalf?

The answer to the first part of your post, this is what Toronto said that they would do and IIRC, this is why they dont want/take a slice of the Sky deal.
A one club TV deal in a country not renowned for having any RL following is indeed a strange situation.
However, joined up, progressive thinking something that could ever be part of RL, a sport where finger crossing and straw clutching is the norm.
You can imagine all of the big noises in RL HQ sitting behind the proverbial goose, just waiting (and waiting) for the golden egg to arrive, some of them even think that it's called Toronto

I don't think they have a countries worth of players at all. The french game is a heck of a lot smaller than the English game and it's been deteriorating fast. Catalans have had 14 years to build up a conveyor belt of talent. Check my post on Catalans 2006/7 in terms of their French players then against their current squad. Their first team is now nearly all non-french.

Wikipedia roughly reckons that the English game is six times bigger than the French game. Had Toulouse gone up they would undoubtedly have turned to England and Australia for a better team. French RL is deteriorating to the point where the likes of Catalans and Toulouses futures lie in digging heavily into the M62 player pool here even more than they do now, and grabbing surplus Australian talent before it can land in England. That's the reality of the situation.

Thanks to Le Grange for the Adam Pearson link. These articles die away in time on the net. Nice work LG

Perhaps you Mr. Him would now like to make the case with documentary proof that Superleague do want overseas clubs in their league? It's your turn to be held strictly to account and provide documentary evidence in writing that Superleague are welcoming of overseas clubs? I'd especially like something from 2017 onwards that shows Superleague looking forward to going Transatlantic/pan European??.

What exactly do you think McManus, Pearson and Lenegan are planning alongside Caddick, Hudgell, Moran, Davey, Carter and Fulton for the new TV deal? Do you think it's the current structure of three leagues in which Ottawa, New York, Belgrade, Valencia. Boston. Vancouver and Montreal will all gradually all work their way into Superleague?? How exactly do you think SKY will welcome paying overseas clubs their TV money to be in Superleague when those clubs fans won't be buying subscriptions and maybe not even the products and services of the Advertisors?

On a club level overseas RL giants are likely to target replacing Mr. Fulton's Cas, Mr. Davey's Fartown, Mr. Carters Wakefield and Mr. Hudgell's Hull.K.R. As guest clubs none of the overseas clubs will have any right to replace member clubs in future, any "promotion" will have to be ratified by Superleague in the way they accepted Les Catalans. You know them? That club that fields less and less Frenchmen every season.

On a spectator level do Hull.K.R. fans take it on the chin when KR lose out to Vancouver? Perhaps you think they will merge with Hull? Cas, Wakey and Fartown could merge to free up places for Ottawa, New York and Vancouver. Look forward to your vision for the game? Will it match the vision of 80% of RL fans in the city of Hull who don't see it?



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