Let's have some links to those 'daily' headlines and not just the one-offs, I want 'daily' please. Thanks

I've just posted a link to the last report in the sun nearly a week ago and couldn't find anything recent in the globe'n'mail.....the ONLY people who think this is a big deal are RL people....and given it's the off season, that's to be expected, but one the NRL season starts, the Aussies won't care and other than a few dozen keyboard heroes on this site, totalfacistrl and a couple of others, nobody in the UK will either.

So, over on WWW.RLFASCIST .COM, there's a debate about the best (ie, the cheapest) way to get to Toronto for games this coming season. It would seem that Toronto have yet to declare there ticketing for the season other than Season Tickets, priced very reasonably at CA$399, but other than ticketing, the issue seems to be around the cost of direct flights, accommodation, the duration of the stay and the overall cost of travelling across the pond to watch a game of Rugby.......which I think is a deliciously ironic topic, given most RL fans won't attend games on Thursday nights because "it's a drag". Anyway, the general consensus seems to be about £1,100-£1,300 will be the cost for a 5 -7 day trip, so I was wondering if Jean was making the trip when Catalans play in Toronto over the August Bank Holiday weekend, or will he be at Shark Park cheering on his beloved Sharkies?

So, over on WWW.RLFASCIST .COM, there's a debate about the best (ie, the cheapest) way to get to Toronto for games this coming season. It would seem that Toronto have yet to declare there ticketing for the season other than Season Tickets, priced very reasonably at CA$399, but other than ticketing, the issue seems to be around the cost of direct flights, accommodation, the duration of the stay and the overall cost of travelling across the pond to watch a game of Rugby.......which I think is a deliciously ironic topic, given most RL fans won't attend games on Thursday nights because "it's a drag". Anyway, the general consensus seems to be about £1,100-£1,300 will be the cost for a 5 -7 day trip, so I was wondering if Jean was making the trip when Catalans play in Toronto over the August Bank Holiday weekend, or will he be at Shark Park cheering on his beloved Sharkies?

Unfortunately, the poster, formally known as Lebron James, isn't too well known for the accuracy of his posting and is generally a WUM.
He stopped posting completely for a while and then made a comeback, under a new name, when Saints found their bottle.

SBW didn't manage daily news coverage when he was at the peak of his career and although he is a great, if expensive signing for TWP, he isn't going to be headline news anytime soon, especially in a city already dominated by other mainstream sports.

Good luck to the player though, who has been box office for most of his career.

You are the creator of extinction rebellion and I claim my £5.

(only joking I thought it was funny most others wont ha)

Never know, we may be pleasantly surprised by the level of coverage when he actually arrives there and does the usual press stuff. Equally there may be barely a ripple.

I've said many times that TWP have done a superb job in promoting a new sport in a "virgin" area and of all the SL clubs, they already appear to be head and shoulders above the rest of the sport in terms pf their promotion and publicity (mind you it's much easier when money doesn't matter).

IF their attendance numbers are to be believed, they should be now be capable of selling out The Lamport Stadium for every home game, which would be superb and if they are here for the long term it would be great to see them playing out of a "better" facility.
We all have to see how it runs and they must, must find a way to develop at least some of their own players, although Im not sure how this can happen without junior rugby being sold to the masses.
It's "easy" to plant a side in new territory but, sustaining it is a whole different ball game.

The Chinese press have ran an article on SBWs move to Toronto. The Chinese press have never commented on the London Broncos, even when Branson was in charge.

This just proves that the whole world knows who Toronto Wolfpack are but have no idea who the London Broncos are

Thanks for that Lebron, I will definitely sleep tonight,

With a name like Curry she must be hot on Chinese, real name Foo Kin Gell.

Chinese State Media has run no story on anything to do with SBW. The English written South China Morning Press has.....it has a circulation of 100,000 expats. Choir already knew who SBW was lebronbazza.....the SCMP preaches to english speaking ex-pats 13k away from toronto, slightly closer than you are (Sydney to Toronto v HK to Toronto)

Just returned from holiday where most of the guests were Americans and Canadians. Now I know Canada is a big place, But a few groups had people with blue jay T shirts. Thought it would be interesting to see if any of the Canadians knew of the Toronto Wolfpack. Only one person had heard of them as they had just signed SBW but he thought they were a rugby union side! Did my best to convince them to go and give it a look ( it’s better than rounders for men ).

A few moons ago.....I was on an Oker RL forum....<REMOVED - No Need> and I commented on how I'd seen very little advertising, promotion or even replica shirts when visiting the Central Business District of Sydney. The good folk on there decided to call me a thick paddy who'd have died in the famine because I couldn't fish.....Racist is being a tad harsh on hitler I would say, but that is the reality in Sydney.

Walk through central London and you will see hundreds of soccer shirts....but I reckon per head per capita, you'll see more NRL shirts on show in Auckland than Sydney, so it is no suprise that Canadians have not a friggin clue who either the pack or what rugby league are.....

You are Boris Johnson and I claim my £5.
By the way, I think your pants are on fire, Billy

His account will be hacked next week. Chinese media

I have never heard of the South China Morning Press.

Maybe you are referring to the South China Morning Post, which was for decades a very reputable internationally recognised newspaper, and cited by journalists and politicians all over the world. However since the takeover of the Hong Kong newspaper by the Chinese mainland's Alibaba group, its reputation has declined, and it is now considered an outlet for Chinese Communist Party views of the world.

So Steph Curry's characterisation of the newspaper that published information about Sonny Bill Williams was a fair one.

The "AXE2GRIND" post quoted above is typical of the aggressive negativity combined with uninformed factual sloppiness that we have come to expect over the years from Wellington's expat Gutterfax.

The New York times have also reported on the huge signing of sonny bill williams by toronto. They have a circulation of over 3million.

To date they havent reported on the signing of Cory Aston by London Broncos

Reuters have also got involved and have interviewed the marketing professor of the esteemed Queens university who said it is the right move for Toronto.

To date, they havent interviewed anyone at islington polytechnic about Cory Aston

Jeeeeez, here we go again

1. Top use of Google there Bazza. Alas, you're a tad wide of the mark on what you think in terms of the SCMP's stance on Mainland China. It refers here to another paper as a Communist Party Mouthpiece......hardly toeing the line
[urlhttps://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3037817/hong-kong-protests-government-under-fire-across-political[/url
Global Times, a tabloid affiliated to Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, also cited sources and tweeted that the city’s government was expected to announce the curfew. The tweet was later deleted, and a government source said there was no such plan, but by then the speculation had been picked up by foreign media.
2. The fact that you've backed up (incorrectly BTW) one of your aliases, shows that this site has become infected to the extent that if you were removed, half the posters on here would also vanish. I suspect the site owners have "key employee insurance" on you bazza, because you are about 60% of their ad traffic revenue


3. SBW is an unknown to 99% of the planets population. Given that union has 4 billion TV viewers, that is some feat


The NY Times have run Toronto stories before and will do so again, but the reality is that Argyle will still be giving away tickets in the thousands this year, no TV executives will be lining up to pay for access to their games and Argyle will fund a netflix series.....maybe. £2.6 million a year for 2 years is a lot of investment in 1 player. Maybe they will look to tap into Toronto's Muslim community....once Argyle has had some training on how to treat people of other colours and creeds that is

This is true.

Also if we're carbon sharing it makes it more carbon efficient if the plane is full as its shared between a greater number. They are scheduled flights they're going if there full or not.

Fair play to Toronto, theyve created more noise and column inches (whether in Canada, here or Aus) than most SL clubs have in their 100+year existence.

Of course SBW is largely unknown in a country where Rugby is in its infancy, but what more can they do at this stage than sign probably the biggest name of either code. SL has been a sht show for too long good on them for trying to make waves.

Oh and AXE2GRIND 1% of the population would be 75 million so still not bad going. Youre known by 99% of RLFANS so dont be skewd by percentages, its the quality that matters.

Sonny Bill Williams is on BBC World News Sports segment, and will be seen by tens of millions around the world.

So much for the idiotic belittling of Toronto and their signing of SBW, be the detractors from Leigh, Wakefield, or Wellington New Zealand.

LOL. Are you a big AFL fan, because they've been spouting that line on Chinese development of fumbleball for decades, but are still confined to just 1 nation





The only difference between Toronto and say, Crusaders, PNG, London or any other "expansion" side is Argyle's money and determination. Good luck to the fella, but it's just a money pit at the moment and will be for the foreseeable future. Melbourne Storm were still losing $6,000,000 a year a decade after they came into existence......and they had paying fans and a share of the TV money, as well as being owned by the TV partner and having a major PAYING Sponsor.

Hey, I've never said it wasn't fun having a side in Canada and given they cost the UK game 2/10ths of SFA, carry on, but it's the insanity in believing that this model will save the UK game that is grating.

SBW must be absolutely peeing himself laughing. NZ $10,000,000 for about 60 games is about £85,000 a game. Toronto's current stadium holds 9,600 people and Season Tickets are CA$300 or £175 a pop. 14,600 season Tickets will cover his wages, so either they find another 5,000 seats, of they will make a loss of £870,000, based on 100% capacity at ST prices currently on sale......does anyone here think they will sell 9,600 season tickets?

Then they need to pay the rest of the squad, travel, accommodation, training facilities and a host of other costs....as I say, good luck to argyle, but at some stage he'll find another trinket to play with that won't be costing him between £5,000,000 and £10,000,000 a year