Quote: Scooter Nik "Yes, but holding Les Cats up as an expansion club is misleading... they're not. They're a club based in an area that is expanding, but which has always been a hotbed of RL, as opposed to North Wales which has no RL history.
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Yes and no. There is no doubt at all that the standard of RL at Cats is now hugely better than when they were in the French leagues, but wasn't the main point of them, that they are really the only peg on which we can meaningfully hang the "European" SL tag? I think this is expansion of SL itself, by inviting an existing "forrin" RL-playing club to our party, as opposed to expansion of SL within the UK to cities which presently do not have any professional club.
I don't see any prospect of any such "expansion" in the foreseeable, following the smell of burning fingers as far afield as London, Wales, and before that Gateshulldersheff.