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| Quote: bramleyrhino "Except, as I pointed out, the "objectives" that people seem to be holding them to seem to be
The objectives are not made up- go look back at all the rfl statements giving their reasons for artificially promoting Catalan.
Toronto and every other expansion club would also lack these audiences, the point is that the name/location of the club does not effect the ability to attract sponsors much at all.
What makes you think that Toronto or New York or any other half baked expansion team would have a more sustainable audience than Paris or London did? Catalan is a bit of an anomaly in that there was already a pretty decent RL following in Perpingnan.
Sponsors could help but chasing them blindly with gimicks won't cause any sponsor to act in the way Natwest do for the RFU.
RL is not played in nearly enough schools in the big northern cities, there are huge sections of manchester and leeds that either play RU or no rugby code at all and huge sections of Liverpool where people wouldn't even know what RL is. If we don't effectively grow our game in its supposed heartland then what chance has it of growing elsewhere?
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Enjoy lad, I'm orf to bed, you have Monday ahead, hope you booked it off ![Wink icon_wink.gif](images/smilies//icon_wink.gif)
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| Quote: Ziggy Stardust "Enjoy lad, I'm orf to bed, you have Monday ahead, hope you booked it off
It's good to be the king.......UNTIL THE QUEEN WAKES UP ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif)
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| Jesus...my head.....eugh. Carlsberg don't do hangovers, but if they did......
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| Quote: pandamonium "With love and kisses from Toronto.'"
BUMP! ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif)
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| Quote: Call Me God "Jesus...my head.....eugh. Carlsberg don't do hangovers, but if they did......'"
Probably cause it's that weak you can barely class it as beer!
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