1) No it's not, they are the only team with 2 'Marquee signings' and virtually a SL squad.
2) Toronto Barbarians haven't got promoted yet, and hopefully Toulouse will thrash them again...in the BIG ONE !

Come on, they've spent big, 2 years on the bounce, trying to buy their way into SL.
In Kevin Keegan style, I would love it if Toulouse or, even York could gain promotion in their place.

Proper rugby league clubs, and reasonably easy for the average SL fan to go and watch their side play, not that this seems to matter anymore

They will be cone in less than 5 years

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I never understand this “they’re just buying their way into SL” or similar arguments were levied at Warrington trying to “buy their way to a trophy”.

Every club is trying to buy success. It’s simply a case of where each club thinks it’s money is worth more in achieving that end goal.

The difference between Warrington, spending the cap and having 2 marque players and Toronto is that Warrington are competing with the top sides in SL and probably not spending massively more than the other top spending sides in SL.
Toronto, on the other hand, are spending so much more than any of the other sides in the Championship, it takes away any meaningful competition, notwithstanding the fact that they have lost once and had a couple of scares along the way.
The disparity in spend within the Championship is already a bloody joke, with the top 4 getting 4/5/6 times more in funding than the rest but, Toronto are probably spending 2 or 3 times as much as any other club.
Sorry "Him" but, this isn't sport but, in RL, we no longer care about that stuff.

What is taking place is slightly surreal, a Canadian club, competing in what was a European competition, spending X times more than anyone else, playing a mere 7 games at their home ground etc, etc.

It just feels like RL has sold it's soul.

Of course there is interest when they play in England and so there should be but, is this really the way forward for RL.

It's a bit like Dubai as a tourist attraction, millions of tonnes of concrete poured onto the sand, al shiny and flashy but, not quite real.

More of a case of what each club can afford. Make no mistake EVERY club would be splashing cash like Warrington have and Leeds are beginning to do if they could. So basically any complaints about teams spending money is saying our more financially better clubs should be kept at the spending level of the weakest links in a division. Can you imagine Man City, Liverpool and Msn Utd being told they should only spend the same as Brighton, Burnley or Huddersfield?

Sports succeed when money is spent and for too long RL hasn’t. Interesting this week that Leeds apparently made an offer of £500k for Jake Connor and it was mostly shouted down as way too much money to spend on one player. 22 years ago Leeds spent £330k on a player, that over 2 decades later a club attempting to spend £500k is deemed silly money says a lot about our sport right now.

You do remember why the game switched from being a winter sport into being a summer sport dont you ?
RL was brought to it's knees by free spending clubs at the top of the old first division, when high transfer fees were the norm, especially when enticing players from Union and free spending Widnes and particularly Wigan brought the professional side of RL to within a whisker of going bust and Uncle Mo brokered a deal with sky which only became known halfway the season in 1994 ??
Wigan consequently moved in with their footballing namesakes and we all started to get used to summer rugby.
As part of the rules of the summer sport, a salary cap was introduced to prevent those very same clubs overspending and to bring some stability to a sport which was financially out of control.

So, why shouldn't clubs be able to spend whatever they want, why indeed.

If our sport was awash with the crazy money that exists in football, things could be different.
However, apart from 5/6 premier league sides, most of the cash in football is from TV revenue.

Although the salary cap hasn't worked 100% and there have still been casualties along the way and there should have been year on year increases, it has brought a level of stability to the game and it has also allowed for a more "even" competition, something which should be seen as a plus but, despite having a competition where almost any side can beat any other, "we" still cant sell the game as one of the most even, exciting and unpredictable professional sports on the planet.