Quote: Superted "Wow - you seem very angry about my view of them as an expansion club, and appear to have made a whole host of assumptions based on what seems an irrational over reaction, but I'll answer your points;.'"
Ted, thanks for the post and thanks for your time as well.......We are miles apart and can't agree on anything as long as you think your view is "rational"?
1. Yes I agree it needs "Plenty of things to work" for a TV deal, Perez himself said it would need [i
"5-6 North American clubs in Superleague before there could be a large NA TV deal".[/i Any less than 9 English clubs in Superleague and the existing SKY deal is gone so it's impossible to get to an NATV deal without without half the English SL clubs gone, then the other half would go as the SKY deal collapses. Your first point is nonsense mate.
2 Yes I agree it's impossible for TWP to supply home grown SL players which is why they didn't commit to doing this. Player production was to be the conversion of Grid Iron players that was tried and failed, and TWP announced they would not be undertaking Junior development. Melbourne are nothing to do with this, I think everyone would be delighted if David Argyle came to London and threw $Millions at the Broncos....... Melbourne is a terrible and irrelevant argument to use mate. It's an Aussie club in Aussie equivalent to London Broncos.
3. You talk about making London, TWP, other French clubs (Avignon, Toulouse, Catalans) and North American clubs (Ottawa, New York, Montreal) successful through "concessions" - what would you concede to these clubs that you would not concede to actual successful English clubs? Why would English clubs stand for it - they wouldn't would they? I am suspicious of you here...
4. You say "[iIf we can get 5 successful North American clubs, I
couldn't give a rats backside where they get their players from[/i". This is both poor and it gives you away big time....
a. You know full well New York, Ottawa, Montreal and Toulouse will want to sign the squads of relegated clubs like Salford, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Castleford.
b. You know full well such relegations will start to destroy the infrastructure of player development here as foundations reserves and academies close.
c. You know full well that fans here will be up in arms and will leave the game in droves if their clubs are removed and their players shipped abroad to North America - and many players will not go, and will go find other jobs here. Argylle has to massively overpay the few he can get.
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5. You don't "see" anything, it's just a poor bit of trolling... you answered nothing mate...