Quote: Donnyman "1.All questions end up with the debate widening things out a bit and I think we should consider "whether" we should help the French, you don't have to reply to that. I think West Cumbria is a pale shadow of it's former self and for me the sad thing is how the junior game there has shrunk so much. Last I looked the age groups had to double up to make up leagues and the content of each league was but a handful of teams. Not sure how many Cumbrians now play pro. a few years back I could count a dozen good 'uns. Donaldson and Lunt seem almost like the last two. For me the game is "West Cumbria" and always has been and it was built on an Industrial base like West Yorkshire. Steel and coal. Not Holiday cottages.
2. The reason "Why" was that Les Catalans were not wanted by Superleague in 2006, but the then RFL CEO Richard Lewis was determined to do two things
RL Expansion - the very definition of insanity