25% of PL sides are from London
50% of NRL sides are from Sydney

Er no the heartland areas have a greater population than sydney, west yorkshire alone equals halfs the population of sydney before we go into merseyside, cheshire, parts of greater manchester, east yorkshire and cumbria as well as other places such as york.


London premiership sides? about a 25% instead of the nrls 50% sydney teams.





Keep going dally

Weren't you arguing for the demerger of Sydney teams before? Isn't that the same? You wanted more Sydney teams, which would have taken the places of a 2nd NZ side, etc?

And isn't arguing for another QLD club (based in or near Brisbane) or NSW club (based near Sydney) worse than arguing for Barrow (a Cumbrian club, in an area where there is no SL)?

And you still haven't answered which NRL clubs you would drop if you were to bring in an expansion side.

Don't hide from the questions, dally. That's not your style

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Don't know if this has already been posted.

Let's see if he's got any influence.

Still waiting for the answer Dally on wether you would rather see the CC Bears or the WA Reds in NRL in 2013?

Most people with credibility usually learn that when their views are exposed as hypocritical through questions that probe them, it would make sense to change such views accordingly.

Dally on the other hand has gone with the "if they're not their, then it's OK" technique of dealing with probing questions! He actually believes he is right, despite also knowing his views are completely hypocritical when twisted on his views of the NRL, and when he is shown up he goes on to trolling as a defence mechanism against personal humiliation.

I'm not sure what's worse: trolling for the sake of trolling, or trolling to divert attention from complete lack of an argument...

Almost certainly yes once they see crowds of 2000 turn up. Paris St Germain is also a very big name and that failed miserably, there is not a shred of evidence Stade Francais would turn out differently and Paris failed miserably last time they tried to have an Elite 1 side, never mind anything higher.


Not when they get 60 points put on them every week, the crowds would soon drop. They were the second worst team in the Championship this year and could well finish bottom next season, with the lower Aussie quota, they only weren't this year due to Doncaster's collapse. We may as well put the team bottom of the Queensland Cup straight into the NRL on your trolling logic


Wigan average about 3-4 times what Harlequins get and come from a place 30 times smaller, whereas Toulouse is only double the size of Perpignan, albeit with far less rugby league interest. Bigger place doesn't equal more crowds.

I pretty much agree, but not to your extent.
Paris - no, not until they actually have a side of some kind, playing at LER?Championship level. If they wanted it they could do it in a couple of years, at a fraction of the cost they would have to go to for one, let alone three years of SL.
TO - probably could make the step up, but they have had the chance to prove this beyond doubt but won't go to those lengths. Again, a fear to expend only a fraction of th cost of being in SL. Not inspiring, but we should hold out to see how they do in their second year.
Crusaders - a worse first year than Catalans, as they did not develop enough Welsh players to do well next year, and have failed to sign top notch players from overseas. We still should wait to see how they do next year. IF they avoid the bottom spot then we can say that they have not been a disaster.

So how come I posted this earlier

, and we didn't play a load of illeagal immigrants

He's putting everything out there, so he can bat it back to himself on the same thread.

Toulouse is NOT an expansion area , they already play RL there and have done so for decades

This thread has been derailed by dally trolling.

Can we get back to the original point before it was ruined by our resident Aussie nitwit (and short attempted effort by his partner in crime fredie in a new "disguise"icon_wink.gif...

(Someone may have to tell me what it was!...)

Well here was my contribution early on

6 years guaranteed reserves?






you add as much to this debate as leigh did last year to NL1

CC Bears everytime

why use percentages, thats not what i asked. i asked number of clubs?

and of course how many lower level soccer sides does London support eg qpr etc

your heartlands are places like wigan, saints. none of the area around manchester, heck all the RL clubs there average under 10,000!

Leeds is as much soccer as RL.

adding up all those small places where RL is stronger would it even be 1 million?

widnes and bradford failed too.

on your stupid logic they shouldnt have been tried again







toulose had one of the highest crowd averages in NL1, with a crap team on the field and their first year of operation there. brilliant effort really.

Yeah I'd agree with that as well, it's pretty much what I said re: the TV deal not expecting much of an increase.

Is it a good thing? I think so. We can't grow the league anymore due to the standards of it as it is. It's already fairly diluted so we need to let standards improve first otherwise we'll have a low intensity league.

This also means Lewis is keeping his promise about promoting a club. Obviously he feels there IS an adequate replacement ready in the Championship out of the three who ARE eligible to apply, i.e. Widnes, Barrow and Halifax.

I do hope Sheffield, Toulouse and Whitehaven have a good year next year just to give Lewis a selection headache!