Quote: fartown since 1961 "If expansion is going to work then there should be six heritage teams and six ‘expansion’ teams to start with. The heritage teams would be St Helens, Wigan, Warrington, Leeds, Hull and Castleford.
Toronto, Ottawa, New York, Catalans, Toulouse and London... No promotion no relegation an NRL style tournament.All TV money goes to these 12 ‘professional ‘ clubs......
Well that’s what the game could look like in the future
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VERY astute.
Do any of us think that Eric Perez and Ralph Rimmer are going to sit back and allow Superleague to take a reduced £150M SKY deal over the coming year and do nothing about it?
Superleague wanted to cut Rimmer and 17 small championship clubs adrift the other year, Superleague want to kill Perez's American dream.
All bets are off - Lenegan McManus and Pearson are currently touting an English League to SKY, but there is nothing to stop Rimmer, and Perez touting a transatlantic league to NATV
The only glaring mistake in your thinking is Bradford Bulls will certainly be the first English club touted in a Transatlantic deal. In addition Ottawa Aces and New York may have no substance now - but Perez and Rimmer will no doubt be saying that players for these clubs will be found from the squads of the English clubs who don't make the transatlantic cut - and your right - Fartown would be killed off.