Quote dally messenger="dally messenger"stupid RFL bloody making the game a laughing stock.
when will they learn expansion never works'"
According to Cru these figures have yet to be verified, however, if they are anything like then what this does prove is that the way the RFL have gone about expansion in the past does not work.
However, the more conservative, steady away extending the heartlands borders in small steps, building on the latent support for the game just outside the heartlands (advocated by a number of us "flatcappers") clearly does.
The conclusion we can draw is that given the right location a fan base for a new SL club can be created virtually overnight. Lets not forget, in Wrexham there has not been years of RFL financed coaching in schools or promotion from the club. This has been a low cost, high return excercise, which should put the nail in the coffin of the ludicrous approach of planting teams in non RL areas and hoping it all works out.
Hopefully a few hundred of those new fans will also travel, at least into Lancashire putting real extra money into the clubs in that area, a massive positive for the game as a whole.
