Quote: snowie "Peacock was just thinking about his wallet, Wilkin is another one when he realised he had to find other club hence his expansion stance'"
Don't agree (rare for me to disagree with you) on Peacock. No comparison at all.......
Wilkin swanned off to Canada thinking about his wallet and who can blame him, exactly the same for McDermott. Both therefore had to support the North American dream and did so strongly and publicly as major figures in the Toronto club.
I have no doubt these two guys were not really thinking about North American expansion much at all, but they duly bought into it publicly as they were duty bound to do so
and paid more than enough to do so..
One
ONE MAN decided to leave the game there the whole thing collapsed faster than a stack of playing cards, proving beyond all doubt RL was never going to take off and it was a matter of time before pro-Rugby Union in Canada were 99.99%owners of all Rugby in Canada.
The statements they have both made since insisting RL had a future there have been duly plastered all over the RL and sporting press. It's good filler for the RL media.
And of course nobody in the RL press was going to challenge either of these lads on their view that it was all working and set to take off big time.