The direct comparison is more Wests Tigers and St George-Illiwara in the NRL.

Not sure they’d ever really work in this country? For a start, you need two equal sized clubs, not one taking over another as in the past, and let’s be honest, we’re a little bit insular in the UK. Salford can’t get fans two miles further up the road, never mind to another city to watch home games.

I suppose it depends on what you want the league structure to be.

A Super League centric model where everything outside is irrelevant, or a well financed model where clubs can move between divisions based on how well they’re run instead of the dropping off a cliff edge we have now.

RL (and a healthy Super League) needs a well financed grassroots system. Not artificial creations and more short term experiments that are ended before they’ve even been given a chance to run.

Cheers

Forgot about the snake

So Johnson & McLelland will go on the next set of accounts, but again will be offset by the signings of Watts & Mata'utia(?).

is this the new cas forum

I assume that's the way it was when they set them up, or they changed them to tie in with around the time SL contracts take effect (e.g. the rugby league year starts in November and ends at the end of October).