They were voted out because they have no money and would potentially be a financial liability on an already struggling sport.

They can apply back to L1 but given the above probably wouldn't get the green light there either.

Happily. Ahem. They didn’t win the promotion game.

But they were still the 100% runners up!.

They still didn’t win.

Ergo they don’t deserve any preference. When Melbourne were ‘de throned’ as NRL champions the runners up weren’t given the title.

You have to win it to be in it. They didn’t win. They’re not in it. And the sad sorry day Featherstone are brought into SL over Toronto will be yet another nail in RL’s coffin in the UK.

I hope it's Toulouse that gives 2 nice destinations for away games

SL are only going to decide in December and give reduced funding to whoever comes up.

What is the point? Self interested clubs once again. And we have the audacity to sit and call football clubs greedy

Serious discussions around Bradford being the 12th team. I honestly despair at this shambles sometimes. You just cannot make this up.

Utter madness if they get in..other than big Nige Wood having a stake in the club what reason..oh wait im kind of answering my own question there.

Bradford would be the biggest draw of all the names listed, but their off field issues of late must be a huge red flag. The last thing we need as a sport is another club in trouble which given reduced funding and no signs of any income may well happen.

I'd like to see either York or my preference Toulouse as two French teams would make for a stronger French national side

That's what they said about Catalans

And there are numerous French players in their squad so what's your point,when they first came into being they loaded the squad with loads of overseas players but more and more French players are coming into the first team squad

The national side is still crap

they had 21 out of 31 players in the squad that were french when they entered super league compared to 17 out of 30 now, so your point is pretty flawed.....

London are the only side who deserve a place on merit - they were the ones who were relegated to make way for Toronto.

Anyone else would be stealing a place.

For purely selfish reasons I’d love to see London get back in. It’s the only team I can go and watch and get back home in the same day. Never missed the London away game.

They need to sort themselves a ground first though.

how is that merit?

Because they beat Toronto to claim a place in Superleague the season before.

And actually competed fairly well in SL. Any other year they would have stayed up with that amount of points. If you're looking for a team to be SL ready in such a short period, they're the best bet IMO. Not sure how much the squad has turned over but I think a lot of it was down to Danny Ward, who is still there of course. Whoever does come up should be exempt from relegation for a year though IMO due to the short time available to them to prepare a competitive squad.

so 2 years ago? Hows that merit for this season?

I disagree, If you look at squads its a shootout between Leigh and Toulouse and they also have the facilities ready also, Londons squad has been decimated

I know. I knew that as soon as I saw 'Pieman wrote'.