I agree that players should get some sort of protection but that's not a subject I am too interested in, nor could I care less about Crusaders and their financial hardships, and nor does this have anything whatsoever to do with the topic at hand. As far as I can tell the only reason you are persisting with this is because you misinterpreted my original comment, jumped the gun and reacted based on the mistaken belief that I have some sort of affinity to Crusaders or any other club. If you really want to have a discussion about Crusaders then start a new thread, I probably won't contribute because those sorts of threads are almost always extremely tedious.

sorry to be 'tedious' - it's just one of my many attributes...

so,to answer my original question - if the frrech clubs area no-no in the Championship,what are the Scorpions doing that's any better ? or is that also too 'tedious' for you to respond to ?

Rugby league players get exactly the same kind of "protection" as any other employee in this country. If the company I work for goes bust I don't get paid either.

French clubs already have a semi-pro league to play in. Therefore having one team playing in another semi-pro league, especially one that requires much higher travelling costs, is pointless. French teams should either be in the semi-pro Elite league, or the full-time Super League. Having them in the Championship achieves nothing as it's no step up in terms of the infrastructure of the club. Scorpions are a semi-pro team and are thus playing in the relevant semi-pro competition. They don't have anything to do with Toulouse or any other French teams.

but that company is allowed to re-form under a different administrative set up and bear no responsabilities to ex staff ?

unless they win promotion ?

or,TO13 get relegated when their stupid exemption clause runs out ?

In terms of their status in the competition, they have nothing to do with TO. Their situations are in no way similar and it wasn't a relevant comparison to make.

Aggression ?

Not much of that in my last post , as for the rest of yours , well it looks and sounds very much ' stalkerish ' to me , enjoy

It isn't often we agree , but on the subject of Toulouse in the Championship , I concur , I would be much happier if the money spent flying players and staff over the channel was spent on building up one or two new British based Championship clubs

so then,what have the Scorpions or LSK contributed so far ? apart from saving loadsamoney on travelling expenses that is ?

They have contributed by putting awareness of RL in areas there wasn't before , and have enabled players in those areas to play RL to a much higher standard than they could have done previously , they have done this without considerable extra costs from central funds

great,sounds just like the french story then !

not a problem for me mate - i'm quite happy watching the LER - FCL and others have been great this season with some decent crowds that would put the Championship to shame - the problem is with the RFL who seem to want to do the expanding bit.Ask them why they want the french teams involved ?
FCL (playing in Narbonne) have made a bid for some kind of Championship representation along with Toulouse so it's in the hands of the RFL it would seem ?