It was tongue in cheek, mate.

Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that Paris in SL would be a disaster, that Toulouse aren't ready yet and that Crusaders has been a disaster. Doesn't mean people don't want teams there so much as wanting SL without being dragged down by very poor quality unsupported teams

ouch you win the argument then

a Paris bid backed by the resources of the Stade Francaise club would be a failure?



you couldnt make this up

toulose would get larger crowds within 3 years of SL entry than the laggard heartland clubs who have been around for donkey years do today.

Les Cats come from a smaller place than toulose and they average more than quite a few heartland clubs.

i think the way to improve rl would be to drop 3 sydney teams from the nrl and replace them with a png side, a second kiwi side and a perth side.


















I will leave dally to chew on that one for a while.

Cronulla, Roosters and?

to compare NRL vs SL :

arguing for leigh and barrow in SL is like wanting newtown, glebe or annandale in for a 2nd NZ side or PNG.

nobody is saying more NRL clubs for sydney.

think about this for a while and youll understand it eventually

SL has enough clubs from small towns and doesnt need any more

its got the basis of the heartland clubs in there.

many of the current heartland clubs are frankly a failure.

for the sport to go anywhere its got to get to meaningful places it isnt already in.

How do you know? Please post a link to the market research you have done on this as you seem so confident. I can't imagine you'd post anything so cocksure without such market research. That would make it pure guesswork and leave you open to ridicule. I think you're better than that though

I agree. That makes sense. But doing the latter bit before such places are ready is folly. Catalans were ready. Toulouse probably are - at a push. Celtic weren't. Paris certainly aren't.

catalans were ready eh ?




thats not what everybody was saying after their first year in SL.

keep it up.

the only way they will be ready is by being in SL and given a 3 year license. the people behind paris arent going to muck around with an NL1 side.

CC are a work in progress. im not prepared to write them off yet.

id say they achieved more in their first year under franchising than salford or wakey did