Quote: kobashi "Of course we will be waiting a long time? I have said this before but to expect Toronto to just find players in canada ready to play professional RL so soon is ridiculous.
Can someone tell me how many players Melbourne storm managed to get into the first team when they formed.'"
But that’s very different anyway.
Rugby league has been played in Melbourne since 1914. They’ve had their own league in Victoria since the 1920s.
Rugby league fans have been turning up to games in Melbourne since 14000 turned up for a GB Lions your game and even before the Storm entered the NRL 87000 turned up at the MCG to watch a SOO game.
Melbourne wasn’t expansion and neither were Aulkand/NZ and neither have Catalans been. They were all given a chance to have a team given a spot in the dominant league in the continent after having a strong background and history of playing the sport for decades with a base that can be said to be stable with a player pool.
Toronto are a case we’ve never seen before in rugby league.