Yes and that was around 3 months ago.

Certainly in their first season, they will very likely be the best supported team outside SL, with KR and the Bulls not too far behind.
After that who knows but, it will be a big, big, ask to turn "failed" american football players into Championship standard RL players within 2 or 3 years.

I know that they will be able to fill their team with Aussies and European players but, their long term success will depend on RL taking off in North America and that will be a long, long process.

As others have said, it's a great "away" trip, in RL terms, Toronto is the most vibrant city in the western hemisphere and it would be difficult not to enjoy a long weekend over there.

they are on premier sports i believe

As long as the good folk of Toronto enjoy watching high scoring, one sided games then they're in for a treat next year

The good folk of Leigh have John for the last couple of years

Do you know if that's all their home games?

I don't think they had sold 3K season tickets a few months ago, I remember there being some confusion around this but I think 3000 people had registered their interest for a season ticket, not actually bought one.

I hope they do well.

There are levels of shade regarding player recruitment ...










& then there is Toronto.






*hope for the good of the game that it takes off big time over there & for the kleenex sales boost John Flatcap Dewsbury will bring* but by 6od, their recruitment strategies & techniques are questionable.

I don't get why Leigh fans get so peed off with Toronto would any of the players who left be playing for them in SL next season anyway

Correct,it wasn't actually registering for an interest in a season ticket.It was registering to be placed on their mailing list with an outlook to being given priority to a season ticket should you register.

For [isome[/i Leigh fans it's a double whammy of bitterness; firstly that they've got Paul Rowley and a load of other ex-Leigh players (some of which as you say, they wouldn't want for SL anyway); secondly, they fear that a club could come from nowhere and we bigger than them in a very short space of time.

There's a thread on their board too that has gone the way of the bitter few. Some are genuinely interested in Toronto, others are criticising the venture before it's even played a game.

Although there is some sympathy with the "knockers" of this project, after all we have seen some failures with "expansion" clubs, since the inception of SL.
However, if a consortium of businessmen are willing to stump up a substantial amount of funding to get this thing rolling and are serious in trying to get a foothold for our sport in Canada, they should be welcomed with open arms.

The venture may fall flat on its backside but, if it does half of the things that these people are trying to achieve, I dont understand why people will not embrace the venture.

The potential for exposure, sponsorship, additional TV revenues is huge and to help get another nation to include RL as a professional sport should be encouraged and commended.

Of course, there does and will need to be serious thought and planning to ensure the thing works properly but, we should all be getting behind this sort of thing.

Unfortunately, you'll always get some fans that want to see it fail, partly out of jealousy, partly out of bitterness with the RFL. I for one hope they're a fantastic success. RL is quite similar to Americal Football, but played at a faster speed with greater intensity - should easily capture the imagination of Americans and Canadians...

I think they are showing all their games home and away.

Good stuff.