What are the actual chances/possibility of

a) TWP not retaining their status in SL next year

And

b) if that happens, a club to be chosen to take the 12th spot?

I hope as a widnes fan it does happen, or the very minimum somebody replaces Toronto in SL form the championship. Just can’t see them doing it though.

Why?

Because they are both failed SL clubs, time for someone else to get a chance. Nobody would ever chose to go to Leigh or Widnes.

how do you actually know that?

Can you name any of the traditional M62 club locations where a player would choose to go to, if it wasn't down to the wages on offer?

The North of England is generally a sh!+hole - Nobody comes to play RL over here for the cultural experience.

By dismissing Leigh or Widnes because nobody would choose to go there, you are basically dismissing places like Castleford, Hull, Huddersfield, Warrington, Wigan, etc, because all those places are similarly depressing places to visit.

Hull and Huddersfield have huge history, Warrington, Leigh, Wigan not so much, do you ever travel, understand the places you visit?

Yes, weekends in Hull and Huddersfield are huge sellers with online travel firms....

When people mock Hull they are thinking of the housing estates. Hull city centre and in particular the old town are well worth a visit. But in general if the criteria for a worthy rugby team is a fascinating location then that's 95% of teams scuppered.

I don't believe that many folk would give this any consideration when planning a trip to watch a game of RL from within England.

However, if travelling to Toronto, Toulouse or Perpignan, that would be a very different matter.

Thanks for your review - I really don't think I'll suggest it as a romantic break for me and the wife just yet though. She can have a pretty short temper and I don't fancy an expensive divorce at the moment.

What a joke of a poster then I read your post saying Wigan Warrington and Leigh don’t have that much history. That’s funny. Il add Widnes to that end too.

But history anyway shouldn’t be a criteria as such for criteria into superleague

If you can’t go off and choose a current GF winner then your heading down the road of looking at

Facilities and stadium
Finances
Youth development
Crowds

If a team does get picked, let’s not overthink or complicate the situation. Whoever comes up will be odds to finish bottom. Let’s not for a second be looking for a competitive play off top 5 SL to come up.

Remarkable statement from someone castigating others for not knowing history.

Lewis Carroll (Warrington)
Warrington bombing and its role in the Northern Ireland peace process
Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier
The Spinning Jenny (Leigh)
Significant English Civil War battles in Wigan and Leigh
First steam railway (Liverpool - Earlestown, just north of Warrington, where the first fatal rail accident also occured - Manchester)

I could be here all day

All correct, but it is Bradford.

Of course it's the team that has still to go and grovel to the RFL for permission to play somewhere next season.