So to be clear the RFL are open to moving a club anywhere they feel is OK.
Is this the same RFL that stops clubs trying to make a few quid by giving players an unusual shirt number.
I always thought they'd learnt a lesson with franchising. Guess we learn something every day

I don't think there are enough gimmicks in Rugby league me.

Are you completely insane, what a stupid response. Leigh deserve no respect, if it wasn't for them and others, Catalans, Toulouse etc would have a game to play, idiot

It's almost 23 years now (1994) the "Framing the Future" document was in draft form. The game is no further on, lots of Superleague don,t own there own stadiums, rely on imported overseas talent and exist on stagnant insufficient funding.

Relocation, how much money figure would you put on it, should we start at 30 million over a 5 year plan. Say 20 million for a new stadium and 2 million a year for player relocation and fan base instability.

We,ve had these nomadic aspirations for decades now, the expansion idea looked promising at one point for the Newcastle area and the West Midlands area.
Maybe send Leeds to Newcastle and Warrington to Coventry for a season experiment!

If a business wants to relocate I don't see why it shouldn't be able to though I'd be mightily peeved if it was my club.

I'm in favour of expansion and believe it is vital to the future of the sport. I think the current idea with Toronto and Toulouse working their way (hopefully) up the leagues is the right way to go. The clubs can then be built on decent foundations and hopefully set up a decent youth development system to produce their own players, that imo should be a condition of being allowed into the leagues (and for those already there but that's another debate).

All the talk of setting up a decent youth structure is just nonsense.
So you take a club from the heartlands, where they are surrounded with a host of amateur clubs all feeding players towards their local club (notwithstanding the face that Wigan and Leeds will hoover up just as much of the talent that they can) and drop that club into a new area, where RL may not even be played at school and where there are no amateur clubs.
How the hell do they set up a decent youth structure ?
The only way that they can succeed is to be given plenty of extra cash to sign "ready made players" or retain a strong base where they previously were and literally just play their SL games in the new location.

They could start the grass roots stuff but, as we have seen with London, this takes decades.