I've said this a few times in the past, but I would scrap Magic Weekend, add in an extra club but make each team play one game on the road in a nearby town with no real RL tradition but potential to get people interested: Warrington going to Stoke, FC or KR to Grimsby, Saints or Wigan to Preston, something like that.

Much like yourself then? Do you actually watch live games? Out of interest do you follow a club?

That's a cracking idea

Actually Toulouse has 6-8 times the population of Hull. It further reinforces your valid point.

With the lure of some additional TV revenues, they are starting to look hard to refuse for 2015.
Its strange how we complain on here about the extra trip to France, bearing in mind that the Catalans fans can only manage the odd away day.
At least they would be able to make the Catalan/Toulouse fixture and there is no doubt that an additional French team in SL would help their national team, which in turn should give England some stronger, local opposition.
Looks like a win/win ?

Toulouse pop 440,209, Hull 256,406. Hardly 6-8 times but see your point Jean or is it John.

Think the metropolis area would make it significantly higher.

Not 6-8 times.

But plenty big enough to support a ' Summer ' Sport

London population circa 8 million can't support summer Rugby, whats the point here, I'm not against expansion, far from it, however back your agenda up by facts or is this just a trolling exercise

Rubbish. Toulouse metropolitan area had 1,202,889 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.