NottinghamTiger - This has to be the most pi$$ poor attempt at trolling i have seen from any of your accounts (Scorpions for super league/Toulouse for SL/Toulouse for Super L/rhinofox/whatever all the others were). Very poor effort.

'Expansion done properly'=until it affects my club. Don't even try and deny that is the case. That's why you have no present issues with Scorpions and London Skolars. 'Expansion done properly', to many fans involves teams at the bottom of the pyramid getting flogged and posing no threat. As soon as teams become successful, suddenly it is unfair and corrupt. Crusaders are not the best, I have discussed why on another thread. The intention of the RFL is the right one though.

Everything has an affect indirectly onto the pitch in the end. The selection of players (i.e. quotas, etc.) is for your squad, and at the end of the day you can't play everyone in your squad in one game, so it's not on on-the-field issue. Squad building is an off-the-field issue. The laws on the pitch are the same for every club, that is what makes sport a sport. Not how you are allowed to select your team.

Wasn't part of your argument based on the fact you thought Wakefield finished 5th last season? And I'm making a fool of myself?

But yeah, good counter argument. Well thought out. You should maybe take your own advice.

Interesting. I have never posted here under another name (as I am sure my IP address would confirm). I'm quite happy to express my opinions and don't need to create various accounts to do so.
Seems like a bit of a trend to bracket those who have opinions as either trolls, flat-cappers or anti-expansionists. There is certainly a reluctance to accept that people can have different opinions from some posters, who simply resort to playground bickering and insults towards those who simply have a different view.

No, that wouldn't be a competition issue. The rules [uon the pitch[/u state that you are allowed to select a maximum of 13 players and 4 interchange players. They are the laws of the game that make a sport a sport. How you select those 17 players isn't.

You're confusing yourself.

I think it's clear that only a select few who support certain clubs that are in danger or clubs that will never be good enough to make it think it's a joke as they are too concerned at their own self interest to see that the sport is trying its best to improve itself and its clubs business-wise so that the sport can expand.

Squad/team = same thing , so how you are allowed to select them is very relevant

And the reverse is also clear , would you not say ?

Maybe, it's certainly the likes of Cas and Wakefield fans who are (rightly) more concerned.
The question is - is the best way for the sport to improve itself to include a Crusaders club who cannot seem to run for a season without lurching from one problem to another? I am actually in favour of expansion (yes, really) but it has to be done properly and with a fairness to existing clubs.
And I'll also point out that if Cas don't get a franchise in 2011 there will be nobody to blame but the club themself.

The rules on the pitch state that you are allowed to select a maximum of 13 players and 4 interchange players. They are the laws of the game that make a sport a sport. How you select those 17 players isn't. That is a competition issue.