The Football team plan to move out again, so he maybe genuinely does want/need another tenant to cover costs.

I do agree that he should buy Coventry Bears though, almost every time we've tried to parachute a club in to SL its been a disaster, the only exception is Catalan but of course they came out of an RL stronghold and were an evolution of an exisiting club.

Tolouse and Toronto are currently flying high in their leagues and and are the 'new club' model we should be following. Get them to start low (with low cost risks if it goes wrong) and fans like seeing winning teams, even if the standard is lower.

Exciting times for the game though, its looking like in 5 years we could have two strong French clubs, a Midlands club and. Canadian club, and surely that brings big rewards in terms of TV deals and sponsorship.

RE magic weekend, l have only missed 2 and i always watch every game, l dont think i have ever seen more than 15k at any one game, most fans turn up for their game and then go, Newcastle will NEVER be more than a third full. OK l know if you pick a stadium of 25K, sods law, 30k fans will have a collective bang on the head, and turn up all at once, so the RFL carn,t risk it. for me Coventry would be fine.

I may not have worded my post too well but, I firmly believe that Wasps have zero interest in RL and that they are only "looking" at the "potential" to secure revenue from high value fixtures like CC semi final or Magic Weekend, which would be superb "bonus" events for them and quite frankly, if this is their motive, they are not the right "fit" for us.

Going back to the point on league 1 etc, as we are currently, there is no "right" to play in SL as we have a promotion and relegation system in place and really, this issue needs dealing with long before we entertain the advances of clubs like Wasps.

Indeed

They are going to go through all the hassle of setting up a super league club with all the costs involved of it in order to make £20k a year from hosting a CC semi final.

Regards

King James

Quote: boomer "RE magic weekend, l have only missed 2 and i always watch every game, l dont think i have ever seen more than 15k at any one game, most fans turn up for their game and then go, Newcastle will NEVER be more than a third full. OK l know if you pick a stadium of 25K, sods law, 30k fans will have a collective bang on the head, and turn up all at once, so the RFL carn,t risk it. for me Coventry would be fine.'" I've seen more like 25k at Magic Weekend games, e.g. www.rugby-league.com/_mediaimage ... xwidth=700 Coventry is too small.

Quote: boomer "RE magic weekend, l have only missed 2 and i always watch every game, l dont think i have ever seen more than 15k at any one game, most fans turn up for their game and then go, Newcastle will NEVER be more than a third full. OK l know if you pick a stadium of 25K, sods law, 30k fans will have a collective bang on the head, and turn up all at once, so the RFL carn,t risk it. for me Coventry would be fine.'" I've seen more like 25k at Magic Weekend games, e.g. www.rugby-league.com/_mediaimage ... xwidth=700 Coventry is too small.