Quote: SmokeyTA "Its a servant serving too many masters. Toulouse didnt get anything out of pummelling teams for a few months, neither have Toronto, barring another meltdown Bradford will probably walk it next year too. Its barely even a competition. '"
I think it's worked quite well for Toronto personally. Most of their fans have absolutely no idea about rugby league at all so they're not particularly bothered that they're playing Whitehaven instead of Wigan. They're just going for the spectacle at the minute, which I think works better with the team winning every week and scoring loads of points. The fact that their crowds have gone up slightly as the season has gone on shows that the people going don't really care that none of the games are much of a contest. The fans will start to appreciate the increased level of competition as they're exposed to the game more which will also coincide with their games becoming more competitive.
It would have been a disaster to just throw them straight into Super League and expect people from Toronto to turn up in numbers each week to watch a sport they know nothing about and their team to mostly lose quite comfortably.