Is it positive news about either or is it they can't believe anyone is paying SBW £2.5m/yr and that someone has employed Folau.



Even the NFL have found other ways to dip their foot in the water and are reluctant to set up a team in foreign lands even with an almost guaranteed audience.

The ESL / RFL / SL just never seem to understand how to grow and expand. The way to do it is to have the best domestic product possible and get people interested at grass roots / school level. Just artificially moving a club (or creating) a club in a place where no one has heard of the game, importing all the players and then playing 63% of the games in another country in my mind isn't the way to do it.

Yes great exposure of greed and hatred

Yes of course you grow from a base that is solid like the M62.

You don't grow plonking 20 players in the middle of Canada. You might grow if you professionalise a club in the south or France, at least we thought, but they have less French quality players than when they started and have lost their TV deal. The attempts to "expand" beyond the M62 are of course stifled by there being no market for it. The people there who like "football" type games are entrenched in Soccer and Rugby Union, just as America is entrenched in Grid-iron, soccer and rugby union.

How absurd to believe their is any room for growth for a fourth version of "football" in North America

But they believe it in the RL press, they believe it at the RFL meanwhile in the real world of Superleague the chairmen try to get on with keeping the game alive, by making the best of it here, so I respectfully suggest you delete "SL" from your post accusing them of not understanding growth and expansion. They didn't want Catalans or Toronto.

2022 they will own the professional game lock stock and barrel, and all attention will be on as you say "having the best product available"

Plenty of sense in this International RL was always the way forward to get good visibility. The test series with Australia on terrestrial TV is the perfect example of a window of opportunity for this and should be what’s on offer for our best homegrown talent.

Instead of a trial game against Toronto in the USA, let’s pit say two Lancashire teams and two Yorkshire teams against them and there would be plenty of time to arrange and sell those games and the fans will turn out to see their team play Australia and a lot of neutrals like me would try to take in at least one of those games.

Put them on the telly too as in essence it would be like a Lions tour in reverse I’m sure SKY would take them even if the Beeb don’t.

Keep it on topic about Noble!!

Donny hasn't got his facts skewed again has he

Back to Noble, I wonder where he will end up ?

I suspect you may be correct.

Hardly a loss for Toronto is it

Keep it about the topic or it's gone!

Carney seemed to suggest Ottawa on Sky tonight

Finally these fools have seen the light and got rid of this leach Noble. How on earth this bloke has been able to steal a good living for many years on the back of a few years success at Bradford is beyond me. He is an expert of overspending and coming up with absolutely nothing. Every club or job he has had since Bradford he has made a complete hash of and yet these fools keep queuing up to give him another overpaid job. His comments today about the success of Toronto under during his time.....what a croc of crap. He put together a team of Highly paid Full time super League and NRL Players/rejects and played them in League 1 and the championship against part time players and sees that as a great achievement - What a joke this bloke is. He could not manage a hump in a brothel and the sooner he is out of the game the better. He is known in the game for screwing over everyone and is a leach.

Yep don't hold back, just say it as you see it

Can’t really disagree with what your saying

What a daft thoughtless comment. It's so easy to kick someone when they are down.

Has it not occurred to you and all the others slagging Noble off that he had the very hard job ofPLAYER DEVELOPMENT & RECRUITMENT

Has it not occurred to you and several others on here and most of TotalRL.com that the Wolfpack failed to stimulate any junior of grassroots Rugby League in Canada, despite them climbing the league ladder here to the top division. It's no good talking about 25 years time when there is absolutely zero interest in RL in Canada and Union have every rugby loving Canadian kid tied up except Ngwati. There is no work to do for Nobby simple as that.

As for recruitment how can he recruit anyone when every penny possible is now spent, probably for this year and next as a number of players were signed to the end of the TV deal in September 2021. It's not that TWP can ask Nobby to bring in better players for next season. You know Steph....The season when you think TWP will have acclimatised to Superleague and can kick on and win it?

It was excrutiatingly hard for Noble to get players interested in the American dream and tens of thousands of miles travelling and living out of a suitcase. What few players were happy to do it were only happy if they were heavily overpaid. So who is left to actually sign, apart from the odd misfit like Gigot? Over to you Steph?.