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| Quote: Conorgiantsfan "I think Toulouse is the exception, as it has the base and the interest to support a SL club there.'"
quite right - the potential catchment area at Toulouse is pretty widespread - regarding the other options,Dublin etc - don't just plonk teams into a system just for the sake of saying 'we are trying to expand the game' etc etc go only to the places which have a realistic chance of making a fair fist of it IMO |
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| Quote: chico's nose "It wasn't devoid of RL, but it was hardly an RL heartland before the cowboys were born.'"
One of the silliest things I've ever read. FTR I grew up and lived there before the Cowboys came along...
Regional Queensland, Townsville/North Queensland and Toowoomba/the Darling Downs especially, have always been incredibly strong heartlands of the game. |
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| NRL style expansion? As in, sit around and wait for cities to organise bid teams, tell them they're not wanted and if the bid team doesn't get disheartened and improves the bid you add them?
I think you might mean ARL style expansion.  They're the ones who realised the need for more teams in QLD and how important expansion to new markets (Auckland & Perth) was. The NRL is far more conservative.
Also, didn't Richard Lewis/the RFL have a plan a few years ago to have a SL club in 11 regions of the UK or something? Is that still the long term plan for the game over there? |
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| Quote: chico's nose "You make a good point until your last sentence which deserves ![]()
You're the one arguing that North Queensland wasn't a heartland of RL. Which area do you think has more people playing RL - North Queensland (population approaching half a million) or Northern England (population over 10 million)?
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| Quote: Conorgiantsfan "Actually, Toulouse and South Wales have teams ![]()
They do but Dublin and Edinburgh don't.
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| Quote: Lockyer4President! "NRL style expansion? As in, sit around and wait for cities to organise bid teams, tell them they're not wanted and if the bid team doesn't get disheartened and improves the bid you add them?
I think you might mean ARL style expansion. ![]()
I think he said semi-pro team. This is ambitious but realistic. Saying that each UK region should have a SL side is insanely overoptimistic.
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| Quote: chico's nose "So Townsville, Melbourne and Auckland are all RL heartlands? I don't think so.
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are you trying to show everyone how clueless you are? Townsville is as 'heartland' and fanatical as it gets, as it was long before they had an NRL team.
As for Auckland, RL has never been #1 there, but it hasn't been a completely foreign concept either. They've always had a decent presence in RL. |
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Come on you Redcliffe Dolphins !!! Good luck to John Dixon & the lads for 2011
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How about the collective organisation that is HM Prisons?
England & Wales: Current male population: 79,633 (84,545 total)
Scotland: Current total population: 7,835
Northern Ireland: Current total population: 1,465
Gotta be summat in this?
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| Quote: Gazemous "
A successful Super League team (10k crowds, financially sustainable) in somewhere like Edinburgh would probably take 50 years work. You can't just put something somewhere and expect it to work - that was the 1996 attitude and it's proven time after time not to work.
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I think it might take 5 years in Edinburgh to have a sustainable fan base and have a substantial number of home grown players in the first team. As for Wakefield, Salford ect we could give them another 50 years and they would still be proping up the league getting 4k watching them and holding the game back |
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| Quote: rover49 "Your dillusional ![]()
We have a similar problem to the NRL. They have too many Sydney clubs, we have too many Yorkshire/Lancashire clubs. The weakest of those need to drop down to championship level.
I agree that expansion clubs should build from the bottom and be brought in at championship/championship1 level as has happend with Toulouse and South Wales.
2012 Toulouse in Super League, South Wales in Championship, Edinburgh in Championship1
2015 South Wales in Super League, Edinburgh in Championship, Dublin in Championship 1
2018 Edinburgh in super league, Dublin in Championship
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| Quote: Toulouse for super L "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Eagles
You do realise that I wrote much of those articles.
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