Featherstone's stadium is unrecognisable now. It is better than Cas' and Wakefield's.

Given the owner is a $$Billionaire with major mining assets adding to that fortune daily he could have kept the whole thing going for the rest of his days. The virus speeded nothing up, the man knew when he was not wanted, the man found somewhere else to spend his money where he had his original ambitions i.e. in the NRL.

I think we are in danger of continuing to swallow anything they say, it's really time to stop. So you got TWP right....

Your thoughts on Ottawa and New York?

My thoughts on Ottawa and New York .

I used to watch a T.V. show called Fantasy Island

It must be wonderful to have such vision, didn't know Toronto have a pension scheme though.

I will miss that plastic field hockey pitch with the settee on touchline plus the Mad Max extras in the crowd on free tickets. If they are allowed to resume in SL next season then the game really is done.
The people responsible for this want their goolies chopping off. Never should have laid a platform for a Canadian side to get into SL let alone in our league system at all. Be seeing you..

Surely it’s just a case of carry on the super league season but the team that was due to play Toronto now gets a ‘bye’ week. Like bury in football.

Why get into the complicated situation of picking a team to replace them with less than 2 weeks notice. Whoever gets picked will likely be on the losing side every week, especially given the championship hasn’t got a restart date so likely no one is training. This leaves them as unprepared as Toronto were going to be.

Plus you face moans from the teams not picked as to why it should have been them.

In a way it’s a shame for Toronto but in a lot of ways common sense has won the day. Logistics!

My only hope is that maybe the money men can get involved at other clubs closer to home and are not lost to the game as we could do with the money in our game. But how do you get them to invest here when it’s their money? Frustrating as you think how much could have been achieved at a number of clubs with a fraction of the money Toronto have blown

Toronto not fulfilling their fixtures is equivalent of them going into administration or going bust, regardless of their location. Other teams get the 2 points and they get automatically relegated at the end of the season.

The only other option would be to suspend P&R, but how is that fair on a potential promoting team (if their season restarts of course) just because a team in the higher league is unable to finish their season.

Although I've heard that the S African and Italian sides won't be comleting their league fixtures in the RU Pro 14, but they aren't based in England like Toronto are. And SL is supposed to be a "superior" competition to the Pro 14.

Does that competition have P&R?

I wonder what this means for the players they have just signed like Callum Watkins? If they aren’t allowed back into super league, does that effect his contract etc?

If they are relegated it voids all contracts.

His Mrs is getting stuck into the subject. Fierce lady and rightly so

It unfortunately did not take much vision and to be honest it was never going to last virus or no virus

Lovely stuff

Yes

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/56 ... ting-july- Championship not to restart. No promotion I think No relegation from the new 11 team competition TWP do not deserve a slot next year in super league but I reckon they’ll get one

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/56 ... ting-july- Championship not to restart. No promotion I think No relegation from the new 11 team competition TWP do not deserve a slot next year in super league but I reckon they’ll get one

So basically, this season is pointless.

Whoever wins it will have an asterisk against their name because the competition has lost a good deal of its integrity, what with rule changes, teams dropping out etc. Add to that, a large amount of games will have absolutely nothing riding on them and be all but dead rubbers. Sky Sports cancelled for six months then.

This confirms that the RFL couldn't run a bath.

They will indeed, Toronto are a 'free ride' and Covid 19 has been part of the problem, but they still should have finished the season.

bar for the slope I agree

How would you like your humble pie with custard or cream

It's only a diagonal one though....

What a slap in the face for ambitious Champ clubs. Only the RFL could release the “no promotion or relegation” news, on the same day (and after) the Toronto “sorry we don’t want to play this year, but we are good to go in SL next year” news. Easy fix for me (and I have been for TWP in the competitions over the years). Demote TWP at the end of the season, and hold a home and away playoff process for any Champ team interested in gaining promotion. If TWP want to continue in the British league system then it is a farce if they are not made to do what any other team would be made to do in this situation. The SL teams have voted to continue the competition, Toronto must be told, compete or be demoted.

'The Betfred Championship and League 1 clubs will be i[unvited [/uto play in a competition this autumn, with a theme of celebrating the sport’s 125th anniversary – and with a prize pot of £250,000, thanks in part to financial support from the Betfred Super League clubs. Further details of this competition will follow this week – it will be voluntary, and there will be a detailed application process requiring clubs to prove their ability to meet the necessary protocols and medical standards. There will be no automatic promotion to the Betfred Super League from this competition.'.

Read that again carefully.... 'There will be no 'automatic' promotion to the Betfred Super League from this competition.'. It might not be automatic, but it WILL happen, to the club that has the best chance of surviving AND bringing in big crowds asap (when safe ) Even Donny Osmond agrees. Good man, I dd say you would come round to my plans.

Mr Argyle was in Bradford today. (not really, I made that up. )

Mate, TWP are NOT good to go next year at all. We have had them for what? four seasons and they've lost something like £12,000,000 and Argyle is saying he's not going to fund the club like that again and I can't see anyone else who wants to join them and throw their money in the gutter. Can you?

It's just not that either. The players they get only consider going when they can't get decent SL places here, and these players only then go if they are heavily overpaid. The small number TWP enticed are all set to walk away now, so who on earth would be daft enough to sign for them if the game here was daft enough to let them play again 2021???

Remember it's only TWP who are saying they are good to go 2021, they have a four year record of talking garbage.