The NFL are only playing three games a year at Wembley not a whole season the dynamic is very different. Easier to market an exclusive - an example would be Bolt running a one off meeting. If the NFL were playing at Wembley every week I doubt the attendances would anywhere near as large. If you want to see elite American Football live this is your only opportunity, the same could not be said of a new RL franchise

Don't really know how seriously the NFL are taking expansion into the UK when they don't even know where it is???

there is only 8 home games in an NFL season, so hardly every week 8 games between september and january is easily sustainable with crowds of over 60000

Looks like Sam might be fast tracked into the England set up sooner than we thought.
Clearly made a good impression in his first game then.

Just saw Stuart Lancaster's comments, really hard to believe that the RFU just gave him another 4 year contract.

Sam has a lot to live up to. Apparently Courtney Lawes was taken off “after making an astonishing 12 tackles in an hour”.

As I said on previous page Lawes had an outstanding game on Saturday, I was there. The number of tackles is irrelevant, as more relevant was the change of direction from the Aussies to keep away from him.

What is also more relevant, is that I believe in Union, the stats for tackling are recorded as the first man in, rather than also including the 2nd and 3rd man, like league. I am not a defender of Union, far from it, but the comparison of tackles if made to league, should be a fair reflection.

Well we have the uneven fixture in the 2nd half of the league...there's our opportunity to take the game on the road.
Even double head them and play in areas like Birmingham/Nottingham/Leicester/Bristol/Newcastle

Do they play the play off games on neutral grounds?

What I find disturbing from a RL perspective is that the RFL can't sell out Wembley for an international between us & Australia nor for the Challenge Cup Final whereas the RU is able to sell out both Wembley & Twickenham for Premiership RU games.
Plus in terms of expansion the RU premiership is moving teams out of London. Saracens, London Irish & Wasps have or are moving to grounds away from their so-called supporter base.
It will be interesting to see what happens to Wasps crowds when they move to the Ricoh Stadium in Coventry.
Can you see that happening & being successful in RL? Salford fans can't even be bothered to move 3 miles in the same area despite Koucash's massive investment.
On the other side of the coin GH still hasn't managed to establish a viable RU presence in Leeds. Maybe it's a northern thing? Are we all too parochial in this part of the world?

Why?
We can't even get locals to come out in large numbers to support the Magic Weekend, so all this would do is deprive home supporters of the opportunity to support their own team as easily as they would if the game were to be played at home.

Play the long game

I think someone has already pointed out the different jobs RL and RU forwards have during a game.
RU is fully professional, they have the highest levels of fitness possible for the sport they play, in days past fitness in RU was a joke compared to League, not any more. Laws is a phenomenal athlete and had an outstanding game on Saturday.

I'm sure Sam will find out the pleasures of mauling for a forward. After 30 seconds (which seems like an hour) your muscles feel like they are on fire and your lungs stop working.

if the team made the playoffs (doubtful for a while, they would sell out)