Infact it's interesting to see how little the so called expansion clubs are shown on SKY. Celtic ... hmmmm, can only remember their match against Wakey. Catalans and Harlequins not too often either. Despite their bleating about expansion, SKY always seem to want to show the blood and thunder matches like Hull KR v Warrington, where at least you get some FAN RIVALRY as well as on the pitch rivalry.

Even they seem to admit the intensity just isn't there when there's no away fans .... I remember Paul Sculthorpe on the telly afew weeks back when he was commenting on the Saints performance against Celtic at home when they won summat like 30 nil. "It's hard to get up for a game when there's no away fans and no atmosphere". No comment from the SKY guy (I think it was The Super League Show) .... "Let's move on Paul ... you can't say that".

By all means, if they want a strong Welsh or French presence then by all means encourage them to have their own league and have an end of season play off comp or summat, but for gods sake don't let them in the English league .... soulless boring empty matches which nobody cares about, not to mention sacrificing other clubs to try and achieve their unachievable objective.

quality as ever tony

Tony is our blind Master Po.
Ever wise.

If Toulouse could have been relegated they would not have finished in a relegation place , of that I have no doubt

But that then brings into question what they bring to the competition and what they are getting out of being in it ?

One thing is for sure , and that is them finishing below Leigh and not going down is bad for the credibility of our competition and the sport in general

They're preparing for SL. Why bother playing in England if they are just going to dick around in the Championship?

Year One: Bed in and acclimatise.
Year Two: Squadbuilding and competing
Year Three: Preparing for Franchise
Year Four: Bye bye Toulouse, hello Glasgow


...........and so the whole thing starts again.

What do we get out of it?

This: