The day this nonsense started I thought what happens when NA clubs replace SL clubs here. Will the English directors be happy and still put the money in? will their English fans be happy and still watch? Will SKY be happy to pay for a Transatlantic league, will the junior and amateur game be happy as interest and opportunities are lost here?

Sadler opines [i"It is clearly in the interest of rugby league as a whole that Torinto Wolfpack are successful to the point where they create a significant market for Rugby League in North America"[/i

It isn't clear to me at all what that soundbite means and Sadler and Lockwood never explain it. NATV re not interested in screening RL, Rugby Players in NA (and there are tens of thousands) are not interested in playing RL, and despite several thousand paying fans TWP's losses are now what about $10,000,000? That's OK if the owner is a massively rich RL fanatic - how many more of them are there in NA?

And every time NARL tries to grow a club NARU appears on the scene to counter it. The RL press really owe fans here an explanation, I won't hold my breath.....

You can "over and out" as much as you want, if the French quality player pool is smaller than 1996 and the French TV deal was pulled then what "expansion" are you going on about?

Your welcome to any opinion even if it doesn't have any basis of fact. As long as TWP go round pretending they are the best thing to ever happen to the game here the vast majority of fans will call it out, I thought once in SL TWP would be found out by one and all, but a small percentage of fans still want to argue sending the old Leigh team to play 3,000 miles away as a plaything of a mega rich Aussie is "expansion"

Perhaps you can organise a ban on anyone pointing out how nonsensical it all is? Or you could try posting on Total RL.com. They do threads where your not allowed to post anything but nice comments on TWP. Staying on topic I wonder if 80% of the Salford fans were scratching their heads saying "[iwhere are the Canadian players?[/i" "[iwhere are the Canadian fans"[/i

Well said

The game is over now, time to move on.