Quote Bartholemew Smythe="Bartholemew Smythe"Over on TRL a couple of their incumbents managed to turn it around into a Degsy slaught,TRL is just full of League Express journos,sad really it used to be an enjoyable site.'"
The site is well populated in it's "expansion" threads by people who appear to ape the Editors (and the rival RL paper's Editor's) view that North America is/was something of a "no brainer". Both papers carried the opposite view to be fair, but never answered it and that was that Expansion by Perez's own definition was the expansion of the pro-RL player pool and the expansion of the TV deals. through Canadian players and Canadian TV deals.
On that formal and agreed definition of expansion then "Expansion" never took place.
In the final weeks of the Charade the Editor left standing was trying to argue that the 10,000 crowds proved some element of success. This view suitably ignored...
1. Whether the 10,000 figure was genuine
2. How many of them didn't pay
3. How many were principally there for the beer festival.
4. How many may visit here and spend their money
But the bottom line was not just the nonsense of shipping across 24 man squads from here and calling that "expansion", it was that real clubs here had to be dismantled as Superleague clubs to provide places for these phoney outfits. That effectively meant "contraction" of the game here as the quid pro quo.
The way in which posters were attacked if they dared to disagree with the american dream often went unpunished. As time went on more and more so-called "expansionists" appeared on the site to rubbish English clubs with histories of up to 170 years standing, in favour of clubs that didn't even exist.
