New York delay until 2022?

Quote: ploinerrhino "some idiots would buy 2'"

Indeed. We know for a fact now that running a Superleqague club in North America costs tens of $$Millions just to survive, and not really be able to compete at professional level, with $30 Million spent by TWP in a few short years.

We also know for fact neither New York nor Ottawa has anyone who is going to put any significant amount of money in, these "clubs" were formed on the idea rich sports investors would walk in and take over once the hard slog was done to set these clubs up. To be fair to Perez he set up TWP and a rich investor did walk in, to be absolutely realistic though this man wasn't a North American who thought this foreign game was wonderful, he was a died in the wool Aussie born and bred there and brought up on the NRL with a dream to own an NRL club. He was only temporary......

Toronto Wolfpack was a learning curve for Argylle to prepare himself for buying into Melbourne Storm. His funding of TWP was a learning curve for Perez to understand how to set up North American clubs, and from that Wilby joined in to set up NY and Perez went onto Ottawa.

Well done to them all for trying to get North America going, but the problem is (1) No north americans want to invest (2) Rugby Union is more established and they mop up all Rugby minded north Americans and (3) cross continent sports competitions don't work well.

So it's back to the good old M62 and if people are disappointed about that and think our game is somehow boring and backwards then there's plenty of decent other sports to follow of which trolling ain't one