Bang goes the New York venture then...

Oh Dear. Donnyman will be having pups!

Will be playing in Cornwall next season

Feel sorry for the poor sods that draw them for the Monday night game on Premier sports.

The closest club to them is West Wales Raiders and that’s still a 12-13 hour round trip on a coach with two drivers.

As for any thoughts of tourists going to watch its Penryn which is on the south coast it’s not a bus or taxi ride from Newquay.

This makes zero sense. Plymouth, Exeter or Bristol would make more sense to me.

Clearly the idea remains to get as far away from the heartlands as possible without leaving the British Isles! They might as well be in Ottawa....

Should've been in an area already with some RL grassroots - Gloucester?

Why are we so obsessed with setting up teams in these far-flung places when we've not even covered our own heartlands yet. People in areas such as Brighouse and Wyke haven't anyone decent to watch so I think a new team based at Hartshead Moor service station would be really successful.

Bit myopic that there's an old man and his dog chomping at the bit to attend matches in Lerwick.

If you don't support this obviously mad idea you're a flat cap wearing luddite and don't want the game to prosper.

Sky will never pay us a decent money if the children of Shetland haven't got a professional club to aim for!

I think you're being a little parochial there mate. It's all very well nurturing the easy to reach nearby places like Shetland, but what about the children of Orkney? All they've got to look forward to is Satanism and being trapped in a wicker man.

Meanwhile the community game in South Georgia withers on the vine.

I've no sympathy whatsoever for South Georgia, they should have merged with the Falklands as Maurice Lindsay suggested.

The Argentinian billionaire was willing to bankroll the whole thing if they'd agreed to rename as Las Malvinas Marlins.

Didn’t work out well for Saint Helena when they merged with Ascension after they went bust did it? It was never going to work playing between the two and low and behold after no time at all they dropped any trace of Saint Helena and changed the name to Ascension FC.

This is all earth-bound stuff is archetypal of small-northern flat-capper small-fry thinking. There is no wonder we're the only planet to play RL.

When is the first franchise going to start on Mars?

Jeez. You might as well put a ferret down your trousers with that sort of insular thinking. There are a myriad of interdimensional planes we need to break through into. Sure some of these dimensions will be inhabited by unspeakable horrors, shuffling through their abyss. But to be fair so is Huddersfield.