Which two ?

All these threads currently discussing possible new SL clubs all seem to have one unanswerable question

Which club/s should be dropped out and why ? , oh it's easy to say ' the worst performing ' , or this/that club if they dont get their stadium built , but deep down everybody knows that there is NO fair way of doing it and whichever club/s are chosen will be decimated by it

So Who gets the ' chop ' and how should it be decided

In the last year or over the 3 years [ but you cannot do it over the 3 years because 2 clubs will have only been in SL 2 years when the decision has to be made

Why should Stade Francais entering superleague mean another club should necessarily drop out of the Superleague?

Surely the important distnction to be made here between what is being talked about regarding this idea and all other clubs hoping for a franchise next time around is that Stade will be completely self-funding.

In other words, the existing teams or whoever gets the existing spots still get exactly the same cut of the cake that they get at the moment, but a team can be added because they do not require either RFL support or the Sky money.

Now there are problems with this, as other posters have pointed out- not least the idea that a club is supported by a single individual. However, Stade are huge, and their president has grown them from almost nothing. He has a track record therefore which should count in his favour. Plus leading figures in France are involved who would not wish to see the venture fail.

The coverage such a team could garner in the French press would surely grow the game, with articles in L'Equipe for instance.

None of this though has to be to the detriment of the English game, as I have said, there is no need for any English team to suffer as a result of Stade's inclusion plus a stronger French national side in the long run gives us stronger opposition.

bury your head in the sand all you want.

who said im not a fan of NRL expansion to NZ or PNG dunce?

im a massive fan of the Warriors and all theyve achieved in the nrl.

eventually i want a NRL team in PNG together with a 2nd NZ side.

its just that next time round central coast will be one side, and the other a toss up between perth and queensland

Les cats didnt have to prove themselves in NL1 and have managed SL very well thank you very much. toulose is too important an expansion to leave to the whims of 2 seasons of RL.

wasting a SL spot on a place like barrow and ignoring toulose would be suicidal for the game. really.

When we went from the LER we had already established a side of all the best French players. TO have failed to do this, at a level where they have a higher salary cap and now have better players available. We dominated the LER, they are struggling in the Championship.

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... -plan.html Would they replace Crusaders, Salford or Wakefield???

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... -plan.html Would they replace Crusaders, Salford or Wakefield???

Yep what a booming succses they was only thing good about this venture was going around the red light district in a drucken staite.

Dave 'Nosy' Parker and The [iSun[/i in behind the times shock.

article in "being from the 6th November" shock.

ah

Laporte was main guest on two different sports programs on French TV channels this week. Didn't mention RL on either.

He did attend the Elland Road game, by all accounts, though.