You can stick your 'hapless' Halifax up yer arris whatever you're calling yourself this week

The only Championship team in the Middle 8s with no chance of promotion is hapless Halifax.

The question is whether London or Toulouse can join Toronto in Super League.

Fax results vs London & Toulouse this season...

Fax 26 : London 16
London 20 : Fax 18
Fax 19 : Toulouse 14
Toulouse 38 : Fax 6

All three teams finished on 33 competition points.

What's your logic supporting the view that Toulouse and London have more chance than Fax?

I'm a bit late joining this thread because the top four in the Championship is sorted by now.
My preference would have been Featherstone but obviously that ship has sailed.
Toronto must be favourites to come up most prob at the expense of Widnes.
Generally I try to be positive and supportive of expansion type moves but when the novelty factor has worn off after a few seasons I think fans will see them as a disruption.
Whilst on the one hand I'd like to see them do well but I don't really want a Canadian team or even a French Team being the champions of Super League or winning the Challenge Cup.
It would attract publicity on the TV national news but in a negative way for English teams.

It would be great for the game if Toronto or a French team won the Challenge Cup before millions on the BBC. It would show rugby league as being more than a boutique M62 game. It would show rugby league as a truly international game.

The humiliation of English teams would be a good thing. It would force them to reform in order to compete better.

Or, it would cause Widnes/Salford to go under and never return. Not sure how that is good for RL in England... less fans watching RL means less fans wanting to play.

The bottom line is that it's a European Super League, I have no problem with Toulouse or Catalans. I do have a problem with Toronto, I think they should be made to enter a league in the US. A silly idea that will die out after a couple of years.

Not for long. ESL will become the NHSL.

Widnes will join St. Helens and feed into a Liverpool franchise and Salford will feed into a Manchester franchise.

Where are these franchises that you speak of.
We have no club in Liverpool and Salford, close to Manchester are on their backside.

Correct. Especially after New York joins in 2020 or thereabouts. And a damned good thing too.

But I do hope Boston and Montreal join soon after, to create a north American conference with clout.

It has to happen. The future of the game depends on this vital expansion to markets that actually want the game unlike the desolate wastelands of post-industrial Yorkshire.