Edinburgh Eagles don't even play in the Rugby League Conference National Division and IIRC don't turn up for play-offs in North East England and yet by 2012 you think they'll be able to join Championship 1! Will you be financing it or have you made alternative arrangements?

As for Dublin, exactly which team do you think will step up?

By 2015 South Wales might hope to be a strongish (solid mid-table) Championship side but SL I don't think so.

I wasnt saying these clubs should aim for super league, I was pointing out that there are rugby league clubs there as you stated there was not.
New clubs should be introduced at championship 1 level, as with South Wales Scorpions, initially financed by the RFL for the good of the game.
The best players from the current existing clubs can then move up to championship 1 level

This is a fine assertion but, given that London hasn't managed "a sustainable fan base" or "a substantial number of home grown players" in 30 years, I think it's probably just fanciful bollox.

To be fair london do have a fair amount of home grown players and a lot of schools/amatuer's playing the game.

As for why they havent been successful in getting a sustainable fan base. Bad management of the club, constant re-location and name change cant of helped.

But as I said earlier Wakefield/Salford ect havnt managed this also. It wouldnt take much for a new club to overtake them

Why is it some idiots on here can only see RL expansion as SL clubs ?

Is the amatuer or Championship level not expansion ?

You could finance 4/5 Championship clubs for the cost of 1 SL club

Quite obviously to many SL is RL , and anything else is nothing , then they wonder why some of us seem a tad ' peeved ' with this

Be quiet peasant - toddle off below stairs - Nigel is ringing his bell from the drawing room - he wants his single malt and the fire needs stoking.

Flatcapper

And his Dad learned how to play RL at Leigh

You been reading wikipedia too then bugman

The Sl should only expand when the game can afford it and for strategic reasons. Extra money has to be pumped into a new expansion area to make it a success and if Quins and Crusaders (along with Gateshead, Paris etc ) have shown anything it is that the build it and they will come mentality doesn't work with RL as it does not have a big enough national/media profile.

Paris was a disaster waiting to happen and could never be sustainable - a novelty to begin with but with the french RL heartlands in the south Paris could never seriously work

which is an argument you could make for any expansion team outside the heartland areas. Hence why it has to be done when extra funding can be made available and that extra funding should come from the Tv deal which increases due to opening up new markets.