Quote ="Dropkick Murphy"Haha.
I'm not an expansionist by any stretch of the imagination and to be honest I think a lot of Super League club fans who are show a bit of an, "I'm all right Jack" attitude at times.
How would Wire fans who want Toulouse or whoever in the league feel if we were in the position of Widnes, Halifax, Featherstone, Leigh etc etc etc? Or even current Super League clubs like Salford, Wakefield and Castleford who would be favourites for the boot?
All of the above have rugby league history as long as we do and fans who care about their club as much as we do ours. Why should they be cast aside in favour of expansion? We were lucky we got the investment required to build the HJ and stayed up in 2002.
Had we failed on either of those two counts our present position could be very different. Would we then be happily going to Wilderspool to watch Championship games saying, "Ah well, it was our club's own fault so we just have to accept our lot now. I hope Toulouse get a franchise because it's for the good of the game"?
No we would not and the supporters of those clubs shouldn't have to either.'"
i'm a little perplexed about not allowing the game to expand, i sit/stand with my feet in both camps, i believe teams should get into superleague on merit.. ie promoted after winnning the league they are in, but with safe guards in place ie, the right financial backing and appropriate stadia. imo this is a better system than the current franchise farce we have.
leigh would not have been relegated last season tolouse would have, gateshead would not have been promoted once their finances had been checked out and saints would have been kicked out for a poor ground years ago along with wakefield.
i remember the whole merger era, which in my opinion started the "i'm alright jack" feeling amongst super league teams. the thought of merging with widnes made me physically ill (i kid you not) and the selfish feeling of relief i had when the merger was called off is indescribable. so self interest imo is a human fault common to all of us.
oh on another note going to france every year is jolly good fun!
