If the NL1 clubs allow the inclusion of Toulouse to be a success by using it as a positive selling point for media, sponsors, spectators and players it will be a success. If they spend their time saying how terrible it is, bitching about the quota & relegation exemptions, complaining about away fans & travel costs; the decision to admit Toulouse will be seen as a mistake.

I wonder whether the NL1 chairmen want to make it a success, or whether some want a failure to make the RFL look stupid?

So you substitute [imajor[/i for [ivery[/i and you think that makes a difference to what you posted

You posted that NL1 clubs are very different to NL 2 clubs

They are not ,

Almost all are part time , thier relative attendances apart from 1 or 2 are very similar

Yes the ' bigger ' clubs in NL1 are better on a playing front than the clubs at the bottom of NL 2 and yet sometimes those teams do give the top teams a difficult time

I would hazard a guess that every NL club be they NL 1 or NL 2 are propped up financially by thier owners [ Not a single NL club is capable of breaking even on what most would term earned income ]

Yes Toulouse will be better off in NL1 than NL 2 , that is obvious

In the same way that a NL club would most likely be better off in SL if they had as much if not more money than the other SL clubs

Not exactly rocket science

Toulouse will not be a ' cancer ' in NL 1 , I have never stated that , 3 clubs will possibly suffer from thier inclusion as some of the fans of those 3 clubs will see thier club possibly miss out on a franchise in 2012

The other 7 clubs will be unaffected [ until one of those clubs finish above Toulouse but is still relegated ]

But none of these 10 clubs will gain anything from having Toulouse in NL 1

As far as NL 2 goes , well there will be no benifit to them

You state that I care little if nothing about any club outside the one I support , your perogative

Strange then that I communicate with fans of other clubs looking at ways that I can help them raise monies for thier clubs by doing various things we have done at Leigh

I have suggested various things like ' Home ' clubs paying coach travel to bring more away fans to matches and how the NL clubs both 1 and 2 should be looking at using one kit supplier to improve buying power [ something that the ' lesser ' NL 2 clubs would most benifit from ] , but I only share and discuss with fans of other NL clubs

I have accepted that the club I support will never play in SL again and can see that the competition we do play in needs to be strong or eventually the club I support will suffer

You say I dont care about the game as a whole , your perogative , I have little interest in the game above NL level because it doesn't need any of my help but below it I have much interest and have done much to help the game at amatuer level


And finally the pedantic part Leigh Centaurions

Maybe they will play the 1 st GF on Venus

So you think that the clubs in NL 1 will be able to pull more sponsorship and get more fans through the turnstiles because of the inclusion of Toulouse

You are in dreamland , it is a no win situation , if Toulouse do well on the pitch the fans will see it as they are being allowed to flout the salary cap and quota rules , if they do badly and potentially end up in a relegation place the fans will question why they have been allowed in NL 1 instead of starting in NL2

And all this is costing the RFL close to a million pounds over the 3 years

And yet every NL club is struggling to survive

well i did that because a sentence saying, [ii never said there was a very difference between NL1 and NL2 clubs[/i
wouldnt make sense



for the third time, no i didnt, you can clearly read, so i have no idea why you have decided the word [iclubs[/i is there when it clearly isnt,

there is big differences between NL1 and NL2, not least one being the 2nd tier and one the 3rd, which will make a huge difference to Toulouses ability to sell themselves to the french



and as such it would be idiotic to put them in NL2,



yes, anybody would be better off if you gave them a bit of money, but no one has suggested anything like this, so it seems strange you bring it up


pretty random though,



so they wont lose anything, suffer no ill affects, and get £100k from the RFL every year, what on earth do you have to moan about?

other than maybe Toulouse being given the same opportunity as Leigh to get promoted, and your scared they will prepare better than you

mainly because they wont be in NL2, but even if they were it would (according to you) have no effect whatsoever, yet you still moan



you must be very proud of yourself



strange then the only negative to Toulouses inclusion is they may stop some clubs getting a SL place in the future, but at least one of those you know isnt anywhere near ready, yet still you moan




seems odd how much time you spend moaning about what SL does then?

but you have just said the NLs will suffer no ill effects because of Toulouse inclusion? yet here you are saying they would? strange

also, what makes you think the NLs would be the recipient of another £1m or that they deserve it? the NLs are already taking £100k a year (every year) each more than before whilst contributing very little more to the game, yet you are complaining that a completely seperate £330k is being devoted to expanding the game,

ridiculous

Must be the drugs

See above post

I Could not care less about getting ' promoted ' to SL , therefore am not scared of anything that Toulouse do or dont do , I posted that some fans of certain clubs will be upset about it and that might impact upon the finances of those clubs


Previously I have posted that it will also adversly effect the ability of NL clubs to draw financial backing




I am thanks




I am not moaning as you put it , I am giving my opinion , that is that the inclusion of Toulouse will not have any tangible benifit to the other clubs in the NL's , there are only negatives to the clubs in NL 1 ,



I is a long time since I posted anything about what the SL clubs have done , or are you insinuing that the SL clubs have made this decision rather than the RFL ?

it must be, to not see the last two pages where we have quite clearly discuessed the difference between NL1 and NL2,

Please get a room.

I have put my previous post below [ the one you have just quoted ] , now no doubt you will try to twist things round but nowhere there can I see that I have posted that the NL's will ' suffer ' ill effects or gain anything

What I have posted is that wether they are successful or not succesful many fans will see it as a failure

So who is [istrange[/i , you seem to be seeing things



As regards the money it will cost fine

If it is purely being spent to help the development of

1 Toulouse into a potential future SL club

2 The development of French RL

3 The international game as a result of 1 and 2

But that is not what is being proclaimed is it

We are being told that the inclusion of Toulouse is for the benifit of the NL's [ both NL1 and 2 ]

So I am still waiting for anybody to give me 1 real tangible financial benifit to the NL's [ 1 and 2 ]

And as you are always telling us that RL is not a sport but a business , it is money that really counts isn't it

We have one , it's on here

There's only half a dozen look on here , so you could say this is a private ' discussion '

so then you have nothing to moan about then do you?



but you have also said [iToulouse will not be a ' cancer ' in NL 1 , I have never stated that[/i yet here you are stating that clubs in NL1 will lose income because of Toulouses inclusion,

surely the effects of that would be seen worse in NL2 where there is less money and smaller clubs, and by asking them to take on this burden instead of NL1 clubs, you are showing your true colours a little clearer,




well thats confusing considering you have also said [iThe other 7 clubs will be unaffected[/i (the other three clubs being the ones which want SL but wont get it because of Toulouse but by your own admission, at least one of these three is being protected from themselves by keeping them out of SL,)

so wouldnt that mean only two clubs in NL1, could possibly see a negative effect because of Toulouses inclusion, and even then it wouldnt be a negative that effected them in NL1, simply not being promoted to SL

you seem to contradict yourself at every turn







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but then argue that a club of Leigh size, which is similar to Halifax, would be killed if they ever were to be admitted to SL, thats two of those three clubs protected from themselves by Toulouse being promoted ahead of them,

so all this negativity from you on Toulouses inclusion is based on the fact that in 3 years time, Widnes may or may not be promoted to SL and Toulouse may or may not be promoted ahead of them, or with them,



i think all stakeholders will have had an input

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