Quote Tigerade="Tigerade"Looks like Toronto might have another "home" game here in blighty in 2018:- https://www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article/5 ... fpack-away'" So Fax have no jet lag excuse for this game. Wonder what the excuse will be when Toronto put 50 past them.

Quote Tigerade="Tigerade"Looks like Toronto might have another "home" game here in blighty in 2018:- https://www.halifaxrlfc.co.uk/article/5 ... fpack-away'" So Fax have no jet lag excuse for this game. Wonder what the excuse will be when Toronto put 50 past them.

The difference in budgets that the two clubs operate under? And it would be a valid one.
Not that I think Fax will lose by 50 but it's not even remotely a fair competition so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make?

Should do what my club does most seasons. And get knocked out after 1 or 2 games.

And your right about now uk club being allowed to do it. Just as no uk Championship club would be allowed near Super Leagues magic weekend.

This is great news! Means I can watch the game without having to socialise with Leigh fans at the blackpool bash

Regards

King james

You're wrong. Look at the crowds we were getting at the time (93 -96). Keighley were getting favorable crowds at the time. They were also the first club that was behind the razzmataz that became commonplace in RL. Music after tries, things for kids to do, making a day out at a game.
Given the lost there SL place, to a side that didn't have its own grounds and we're getting crowds of less than a 1000, but we're in a city. Yes they got every right to be a
Agreivied by what happened.

What you need is heartland clubs as well as expansion clubs, together making a go of it. With it being equal footing and rules for both.

Personally, if a club doesn't want to enter a Cup then I don't see why they should be forced to. I would be surprised if it was mandatory although smaller clubs potentially have a chance for some extra exposure/revenue from it, hence why they probably enter.

LIKEWISE !

you wont be missed

Keighley got 5 gates over 5k in a decade.....I'd take New York, London, Paris, Munich.......

over a pit village any day of the week, especially one that's a 9 iron away from Bradford and Leeds.......
...we often wonder why we're ignored as a northern pastime and the stance that keighley were better for the game than the Broncos is exactly why....there are no better examples of NIMBY'S than Yorkshire folk in relation to RL.......if the game is the "life blood" of the region then it would be thriving at amateur level....it is't....chasing a 1.8 million cheque to then run a side that will cost 4 million and hope the 2.2 million will come from fans isn't a viable business plan....and Cougarmania wouldn't deliver half the needed funds......so you'd have another bottom tier side struggling to stay up and playing out of a hole ground......and wonder why the rest of the country couldn't give a flying one.

Toronto are on shaky ground year 2.....if they don't buy their way to SL in 2018 then the wheels may well come off completely, but I'd have them all day every day over "traditional" clubs with not a pot to pee in.....because Keighley failing isn't news, but Toronto is!

Calm down, you expansion loving Penus !!!