Lol from a Wildcats fan....Wakefield average 4k...

Exactly. So I know full well what 4k people inside a rugby ground looks like and it looks an awful lot like Toronto yesterday.

Plus those around the beer tents. In N.America, people roam around

No Canadian players, no academy, no covered stands, no hospitality or corporate areas, cheap season tickets. Only so long a benefactor can run on free tickets and beer festivals. We'll see how many of them they can put on when they're getting pumped by the big boys...

Another Trojan horse thread started by someone with a Wolfpack-bashing agenda who contrives to dress it up with a semi-reasonable subject line.

Yawn.

Off to pick aphids off my roses.

Next season will be tough - either losing the majority of games in SL or walkovers in the majority of games in the Championship. The only silver lining is that the fans seem to care little who they are actually playing and care more about a good social event and the brand than anything else. As for the players, they will continue to sign up as long as they are paid enough. I don’t think many of them would earn a big contract anywhere else. A lot of journeymen.

If Toronto makes Super League in September then the club must sign some quality NRL players. At least two backs and three forwards.

What a pity that we don't know Toronto's Super League prospects right now because the club could snare Jarryd Hayne, who is off contract at the end of this year, while finally showing some top form. He is the kind of person who loves a foreign adventure, as we know. Parramatta want to retain him, and have made him an offer, so I suspect that he will make a decision to stay at Parramatta before Toronto's fate is determined.

The RFL's promotion and relegation system, with its late season outcome, is what makes it hard for newly promoted clubs to attract top quality players. That is one of many important arguments for licensing.

The crowd is pretty much irrelevant.
What's more important is the TV viewing figures and how much advertising the TV company can sell.

For sport in America/Canada many fan live so far away that they very rarely get to the games.

No it’s not because even if they knew earlier top quality players would still prefer to go to top clubs who are challenging for trophies rather than a nearly promoted one, regardless of it being English, French or Canadian.

If under a licencing system a team has a core of quality players signed before mid season of the year preceding promotion, top quality players will go there because they can sense that the club has prospects of winning silverware, even if newly promoted.

No they won’t they’ll go to clubs already up there challenging for silverware because no newly promoted club will be challenging at the top of the table in their first year or two in SL.