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.

the problem with saying so and so should not be allowed in because they don't have a pot to tinkle in is that some clubs already in superleague are in a similar poor position financially. in order to exclude clubs who are not going to bring any value, you have to speak from a position of strength in the first place

I agree to an extent. However, simply multiplying the problem isn't really a solution, is it?

As Cokey says IR80 was of course just trolling as usual but a Brilliant reply none the less.....

Why is anyone who disagrees a troll?

open your blinkered parochial mind...

Change the topic to 11 & 12 teams now Hudge has stepped down at HKR.

Yes, Hudgell has kindly supplied the answer we have all been waiting for - a 10 team SL. Who would be daft enough to invest new money in a sport that is on its knees, even more than it was before - other than Derek Beaumont?

I suppose the other option is to promote 4 teams from the Championship - Leigh, London, Toulouse and one other.