Quote: Uncle Rico "Ever thought of following your own advice? Most thread's on here somehow transition into expansion with a definite anti French or Canadian element with you constantly at the forefront droning on.
I may or may not agree with some of your points but we tend to end up in the same place which isn't healthy and doesn't encourage wider debate from different posters, something that you say that you wish to encourage but in reality that seems only to apply to comments that align with yours'"
Firstly I have started and supported a series of threads that are
not about expansion please look at these........ Secondly the North American thing is dead so I was right and that's that and I don't post about that any more
Many people miss (and that must be deliberate) if the game adopts "expansion" without the TV deals and the new players to pay for and play for this "expansion" than all you get is "substitution"
Take Wakefield out of Superleague and put Toulouse in
Take Castleford out of Superleague and re-instate Toronto
Take Huddersfield out and put in Ottawa
That is the real life suggestion made on message boards which many people regularly talk about in far more posts than even I could manage. I would not answer any of their posts with anything but solid agreement if the expansion argument was a good one. But the fact is once you get less than 9 English clubs in Superleague you lose the SKY contract.
I didn't say that Pearson and McManus did.
My only argument left is if anyone thinks France is a way to grow our game then
put four French clubs in the Championship and grow that before kicking out English clubs that underpin the SKY contract.
It's unfair to suggest I am anti-French or Anti-Canadian, it's very simple - if you use Superleague as an expansion league you deplete the English game and risk losing that.......I may have argued that 50 times? Others may have argued I'm wrong 50 times - it takes two to make a tedious prolonged argument