Quote ="northernbloke"Your actually wrong on a number of counts
.Toronto chose not to take any central funding, it was not denied to them
Toronto never asked for 10%:weighting on the salary cap, they asked for 5%
Why didnt they ask for it at the outset?
The change to the SL structure would have to be RFL and SL approved.
As for Toronto paying costs of travel for SL clubs, I actually don't know about that, do believe they still owe a number of clubs from last year
So what did elstone say and when'"
Not true. They agreed with the RFL for for that to be the case in L1/Ch but there was no agreement about it for SL, and TWP expected it to be different. The SL clubs refused to give them that money. They do, however, give Catalans £1.8m despite them not bringing in a broadcast deal. They told TWP they could instead keep whatever money they generated from the Canadian TV rights, but those rights had already been sold to Sky so TWP would have to buy them back from them and then find a buyer in order to try and make some money.
Don't know the precise date TWP asked for the 5%, but it was before the season kicked off. Why it was 5 and not 10%, I've no idea. Either way, the SL clubs refused to give it to them.
You said the RFL wanted TWP to stay up and would change SL 14 clubs, I told you they couldn't do that.
As to Elstone's comments - he called them "spurious" for god's sake. It's clear how he views them.
