League Express now reporting on the issue.

Best out a link up before they start asking https://www.totalrl.com/wolfpacks-overs ... head-home/

Best out a link up before they start asking https://www.totalrl.com/wolfpacks-overs ... head-home/

If the Toronto circumstances are as dire as they are rumoured to be, then Sendhimoffref's solution is an obvious and easily achievable solution.

Quote ="snowie"Best out a link up before they start asking https://www.totalrl.com/wolfpacks-overs ... head-home/'" It is only where Donnyman posts some unbelievable stuff, which no one else has any knowledge of,where there is a polite request for some evidence. It seems some overseas based Toronto players have quite understandably returned to their overseas homes, as they do not have the required visas to be remain in the UK,for the period of the Super League fixtures. It also seems Vickers is no longer a director of the UK side of the operation - despite the recent link with the government, involving trade. It's dated today with Companies House - which seems a strange one:but it is what it is.

Quote ="snowie"Best out a link up before they start asking https://www.totalrl.com/wolfpacks-overs ... head-home/'" It is only where Donnyman posts some unbelievable stuff, which no one else has any knowledge of,where there is a polite request for some evidence. It seems some overseas based Toronto players have quite understandably returned to their overseas homes, as they do not have the required visas to be remain in the UK,for the period of the Super League fixtures. It also seems Vickers is no longer a director of the UK side of the operation - despite the recent link with the government, involving trade. It's dated today with Companies House - which seems a strange one:but it is what it is.

There are no Tanks!

not only visa problems they are saying they won't return to training until June payments have been paid we are now half way through July, can you blame them

Thought it was the banks fault?

Strange that Super League clubs are offering players for loan deals, then.

Beats me.Broadcast deal could be in trouble if fixtures cannot be fulfilled.

Not a good time for Super League clubs,it seems.

I know, surely Toronto (if players are paid whatever they are owed) would like to finish the season, even if it mean replacing the one's with visa problems, and bring in in other teams squad players.

Who do you mean by "Toronto"?

Is this David Argyle who doesn't want to pay any money in anymore?

Is this the skeleton staff who would prefer to go find a new job elsewhere ASAP now they are losing theirs??

Is it the players who:

a. Are going home in the next few days or....
b. Are not going home but want a new club ASAP so they can be paid or.....
c. Are not prepared to play at short notice without having trained and conditioned as they risk serious injury.

It looks to me like "Toronto" may be a hastily gathered together by a very red faced Brian McDermott recruited (to save his own face) team of Championship lads who will put the shirt on to make a few quid "in these troubled times"

I thought Crusaders were bad enough back in 2011 but they actually fulfilled their fixtures and beat Salford twice, Wakefield twice and Huddersfield. Tell me - do you still put the boots on Mr. B - ring Brian for a game?

"Expansion" eh?

Nice one. Just a clerical error then

Craig are you still worried mate?? I hope the new lads coming in are signing a contract drawn up by Superleague's lawyer Hudgell that includes a clause to say they must not beat HKR......

I made it all up Steph love......

G'Night.....

If it is a team made up of TWPs remnants bolstered by Championship players as rumours suggest then even Rovers shouldn't be able to mess that up?
First couple of games they could be dangerous though fuelled by pride and against the odds mentality sometimes seen in sport?
After standing feeling fairly secure on 78 minutes of the MPG i never doubt my teams capacity to fluff their lines. .

Yep after watching and still supporting rovers for over 50 yrs I have seen it all maybe this is to get the Team thinking it will be easy trust me with rovers it will not be

With all his countless wealth why has TWP asked SL for a 200K loan, like loose change to Mr Argyle, is he getting fed up?

A few journos now reporting that the Wolfpack players have gone on strike over not being paid. They were meant to report for training and Covid-19 testing today and none have turned up.

It's the UK banking systems fault. This has been rumbling on from the start and got swept under carpet during the Caton Brown 10k fiasco. Credit to JD for sticking to his guns and reporting on the facts.

How is this racist it has nothing to do with colour or creed it is all to do with rules of the competition which Toronto signed up to when they joined the league. It is Toronto's responsibility to arrange Visa's for their players not the RFL's.

Hi Harry,

Earlier in this thread I posted a link to the Sydney Morning Herald from February? It reported that David Argylle was offering to buy into Melbourne Storm as the owner was seeking investment partners. Your astute enough to understand none of the Superleague bosses ever wanted TWP. They let them in on a deal with Rimmer who agreed to the dumping of the middle eights and £Million pound game as long as SL did not block promotion.

TWP's reception since they joined was icy to say the least and their start put paid to the nonsense about how glamorous they were. The crowd at the Headingley Triple opener were most unimpressed.

So put simply Argyle knows when he is not wanted, and he isn't, and he now has an exit strategy to get on the Melbourne board. Therefore he's stopped bankrolling TWP which was an easy thing to do. They "only" cost him about $5M a year and as he is a $$billionaire mining magnate so that was loose change to him. Maybe he thinks pulling back is a nice piece of revenge.

Total RL/League express & Rugby Leaguer won't tell you any of this as they were so sure that North America was the future. Today's edition doesn't editorially cover the real facts as to TWP but they have allowed Gary Schofield to tell some home truths,

But the bottom line is Argyle has stopped bankrolling them. His dream of an NRL club that he always wanted has taken him away.......

And as you know TWP are NOTHING without Argyle

Quote ="Harry Stottle" Mr Argyle, is he getting fed up?'" https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/wolfpa ... 542qn.html Here we go Harry And there we go Mr Argyle.. and Mr. Perez and Mr. Wilby. No charge for the link mate, just pleased you have the truth at your fingertips.......

Quote ="Harry Stottle" Mr Argyle, is he getting fed up?'" https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/wolfpa ... 542qn.html Here we go Harry And there we go Mr Argyle.. and Mr. Perez and Mr. Wilby. No charge for the link mate, just pleased you have the truth at your fingertips.......

Gary Carter, The Sun, announces that Toronto will not play again in SL2020. Club Statement to follow.

Edit

Club confirms

Hi Derwent,

This was very likely as per the following from a player last week or so

[i“Enough’s enough,” “I can’t remember the last time we got paid (by TWP) on time. We haven’t been paid for the last month. The thing is the stress that it puts on the team and people in that organisation is madness. “They don’t give a ****. There’s a lot of people owed money. It’s just a disaster. I don’t think people understand the mental stress it puts on people. Some of the players with kids, mortgages, bills – I’m worried. It’s crazy.“We get told the money will be a week late. And then the week comes and no money, and then the next week and the next week. What gets us is we get told on the night the money’s coming and then it just doesn’t come.

“We’re not doing anything until we get paid,” he admitted. “We’ve had 16 weeks off and the competition starts in two weeks, what do they expect us to have one week of training? Can you imagine the injuries? It would be catastrophic.”“The stress that some people are under right now is crazy.“You’re only getting 50 per cent of your wage, in these circumstances that’s fair enough, you’ll cop that. But when you’re owed two months wages as well that’s a lot of ******* stress on you.“I’m just trying to get through it day by day.”[/i

They aren't going to be the fall guys. RFL & SL need to take the whole thing on the chin it's both their faults.....