It will be much easier for them to attract crowds, sponsorship, TV coverage, players and media interest now they are in the top grade.
It has been a remarkable effort to fund the side and attract a good fan base in an area where the game was unknown while playing in semi professional comps.
Now they have a professional side in a professional comp, and thanks to their efforts of the last few years, they have already developed a fanbase.
Next year they will be able to access TV coverage of away games of broadcast quality, and they should be able to get that on local TV, so that alone will get in fans and sponsorship they haven't dreamed of till now.
I think they have done the hard bit.
Now the people they have had to chase for 3 or 4 years will be knocking at their door, looking to jump on the bandwagon.

I agree that Toronto only needs two or three quality players to succeed in Super League. At least one of the new players must be a top quality half back and at least one a top quality prop to replace Ashton Sims, who is retiring.

If I was the coach of Toronto I would be looking closely at Ryley Jacks, formerly at Melbourne Storm, and currently at the Gold Coast Titans, where he is dealing with a lot of competition for the scrum half position. A good thing about Ryley Jacks is that he qualifies to play for Canada, because his father was born there. (Ryley's brother played for Toronto in its first year).

The club might even consider Josh Dugan to play at full back, since he is likely to be released by Cronulla, which is under salary cap pressure.

However the choice of a quality scrum half and at least one quality prop will be most crucial for Toronto's success in 2020.

They need a helluva lot more than 2-3 players with that side I watched Sunday night.

I'm fairly relaxed about the concept of TW being in SL - but then I don't have to organise for an entire squad of players and backroom staff to travel there for a match.

What I'm less relaxed about is the long term plan in North America; I sincerely hope there is one, and that the governing body are supporting it and not just leaving it all to TW. If this project doesn't include the accelerated development of junior and amateur arrangements in Canada, and a requirement to develop local players, then it all seems rather pointless - and creates the impression that it's just a team of mercenaries and has-beens, cashing in until the money runs out. I hope it succeeds, but having been involved in the organised chaos of junior RL in the UK, I have my doubts.

Congratulations to Toronto, I'm a Featherstone fan and I'm nothing short of gutted that we fell at the final hurdle, however I'm not going to sling mud at Toronto. I fully agree that they are needed to grow the game, expand the market to North America and start a journey towards the game having more global appeal that it deserves. It seems that they are truly behind becoming a force of the game. I hope the self serving Super League chairmen don't become blockers to what they are trying to do. If the game is to grow to a global market, it's not just going to be the Featherstones, Batleys, Dewsburys that can't / won't compete at the highest echelons, it will also be a number of the current "elite" The biggest thing holding Super League back is Super League itself.

OK. Don't want to upset people but as rugby supporters we look on SL with a different view to the Canadians. Wigan, St.Helens, Castleford means nothing to them.

Can't wait for the fixtures to come out, hopefully we can find a way to make it work for a trip over there like me and my mates did with Catalans in the early days. New city, new place and new atmosphere to sample - bring it on I say. Don't think I speak for many of my fellow Trinity fans though......

You'll think so if you get wrapped up in the loop fixtures.

Considering what the rfl allowed them to spend in others divisions I’m thinking there salary cap could or should be around £4m

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Ridiculous allegation. You just cannot stop denigrating the best thing to happen to northern hemisphere rugby league, and global expansion of the game, in decades.

They were only allowed to spend the same as other teams in the same division as I understand it

What do know jean, your the one who said Luke gale hadn’t signed for Leeds when I told you he had, you plonker

It’s well documented about a certain Toronto been on ove £400,000 a year, you obviously don’t watch rugby either, yet another plonker haha

Go on then: what are Toronto bringing that Catalans have failed to?

I am aware of that (thought he was on more actually), however my understanding was that Toronto had the same salary cap spend (plus slight variations due to exchange rates) as other SL and Champ clubs