Quote: Willzay "Sick of players crying about losing their jobs in this format. You have 23 rounds plus another 7 to avoid the threat of relegation. If clubs have to 'tear up' your contract because you're too expensive that's their fault not the formats. Could you imagine someone working at Tesco's or at a solicitors getting 30 chances to save their job?'"
Have you never seen the headlines of "fat cats" getting several £100k when they are finished.
You dont mention that RL players may be on a 3 or 4 year contract worth X and then make commitments to say, buy a house or, car etc and because their club gets relegated, regardless of how well that player had performed, said contract becomes void and it's off to the job centre ??
Of course, you can argue that they know what they're getting into but, that knowledge wont pay their bills.
In football, assuming that a transfer isn't agreed, the players see their contracts through (at the agreed rate) but, in League, the contract goes up in smoke.
Maybe, this is something that the parachute payments should go towards but, it makes for an uncertain future for a significant number of players.
Using your Tesco worker analogy, they too could lose their job but, those with fixed term contracts would be paid out
(Mind you the £8.50 / hr workers would just be dumped and replaced).
HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. 
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