would the RFL be as happy if say either of Leeds, Wigan, Saints, Wire etc approached the NRL and had an agreement to play there if a wealthy benefactor covered the NRL teams travel costs to UK... They could play the games in blocks ie 6 home games, then 6 away during the period when the Origin is being played...etc etc....it's no more an absurd idea than travelling to Canada and back.....

YOU should know you little Englander

Other than Europe having a fully professional league already, and Canada being a lot closer to Europe than Australia.

Little Englander

Bit of a difference in Canads (7 1/2 hours) and Aus (22 hours) plus, increased jet lag etc.

Chorley voted 56.8% to leave the EU, you would think he would be used to 'it' by now.

Leave Chorley out of this. I am sitting here in bloody Europe, not Chorley.

Chorley is in Europe. So, correct you are sitting in Bloody Europe.

There wasn't an option, " Toulouse OK but not the North Americans"

I am sitting in continental Europe, not on an offshore island.

Of course you are ...

42% think that if a foreign team gets promoted into super league they shouldn't be allowed in?

Really? (Can't see the poll results on my iPad for some reason). Surely if they win they have as much right to be in super league as anyone else.

I agree very much with wrencats post on the previous page. It depends very much what the long term plan is, but the worst possible structure for aspiring clubs is the one we currently have.

If we were committed to expansion, or even just getting some teams out of the championship we would be better off tearing the whole thing up and going back to franchising but doing it properly in terms of teams meeting the criteria.

I can't be the only one that thinks for example if franchising had been administered properly Leigh would probably be in SL right now, in the place of Wakey or Salford.

In either system it is a case of if you are good enough you get in, but if done properly franchising is equally about how well a club goes off the field, which for the game, but maybe not for some fans, is the most important thing.