It's not a sport , you've told us many many times , it's a business

And yet nobody on this thread has suggested they should give up on expansion , just that it should be done differently , more successfully perhaps

Aah the Rugby League family. So caring.

Nobody has suggested it should have been given to any other such clubs , as for their importance to the game , well at least it would seem they will still be in existence next season , so I'd say yes more important than a club that might not be in existence next year

Yep

This was noted years ago by most of us!

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Surely you don’t need someone to explain to you its both. You’re apparently an adult

Really? More successfully you say?

I have yet to hear anything from your flatcappness that looks remotely ‘more successful’ in relation to expansion. Just a long stream of nonsense ideas which boil down to two things, a long and pointless stay of expansion sides at a low level because you’re that naïve you believe that not selling lower league RL and lower league sides to expansion areas will prove RL cant be sold to those areas and Leigh wont be overtaken from them. And secondly give lots of money to lower league sides ( lower league sides meaning Halifax and leigh and formerly Widnes, not London, Sheffield, French Elite sides, definitely not Welsh lower league sides etc etc)

Well, you've banged the drum about it just being a business so often this last post is laughable. So now it's back to a sport AND a business. You're as flaky as a 99

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Seems strange that you are happy to damage championship one with what you wouldn’t damage the championship. And why no relegation? Leigh’s lack of relegation didn’t damage the championship. And why no parachute payment? The RFL are funding them, it seems odd that you have a problem with that being via a parachute payment.

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As there is no relegation at this minute from Championship 1 I doubt the other clubs would have a problem with a Crusaders club playing to the same rules as themselves , if you want to call it a parachute payment , then fine as long as it also precludes them from promotion at the expense of another club , you can call it what you want

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And yet this IS exactly what I have suggested , but I have suggested that they should not be allowed to profit ON the pitch because of this money

I would think that is quite fair , unlike yourself , who it seems wants certain clubs to be favoured both off and on the pitch by the RFL

I do wonder if the RFL had pumped 3million quid into jnr and grass roots development rather than funding an ill fated SL club how much stronger the game and future foundations in Wales would now be?