Why would a franchise with no fan base gather any revenue never mind more revenue than the current set up.

Put up a team in Saudi lots of money out there.
I'd give it 12 months before it collapses.
We've done the franchise and it does not work for UK fans.

You have superseded by quite a long way the most ridiculous post I gave ever read. Sport is about the fans, not popularity and gaining worldwide sponsorship and kudos. To save yourself time your thread should just have read:
Bibble

You think?

Yes, without its customer a business ceases to exist. I don't give a flying toss as to whether our sport is global, universal or just played in my back garden. I go to watch my team with my heart. The ideologists can continue to preach their rhetoric. I am the reason Rugby League exists...

Of course it need's fans but, without cash, there is no sport for the fans to watch, apart from pub teams and lower level amateur games.

Ultimately there is a balance to find, between having enough income for the sport to attract enough quality to make people want to pay and watch.
RL does struggle to attract enough fans through the turnstiles and whilst most on this forum would say that it's the best sport in the world, clearly, not enough people think so or, we would already have a strong global sport.

Our game is derided in the media and it's time that we improved the image of the sport to the outside world and got some positive media exposure.

The only time we make the headlines is when a player has done something stupid.

No too long ago there was some hysteria about media city being in Manchester and people said this would make a change but, the reality is, it's done nothing whatsoever.

Calder won't happen.
London failed epicly the first time round.
You've included Catalan, Tolouse, Toronto & Montreal - But no Cumbrian sides.

Maybe - instead of messing about changing the structures year after year - We should stick with something longer than 3 years and let it develop. Have some patience with it - Something the RFL seem to lack.

Increase the Salary Cap in the Championship to the same as the Super League and we may well see the new structure working.
How they can expect to get a competetive league structure with such a difference in the Salary Cap is truley mind boggling

says it all really.

London is improving in the Championship (now 2nd). A second investor could give them the boost they need to become a successful Super League club.

No Cumbrian sides because they have neither sufficient population/fan base, nor a geographical centre, nor sufficient financial backing to succeed in Super League. Newbies Toronto and Montreal and Toulouse possess all of these vital factors. Moreover Toulouse just thumped Barrow Raiders at Barrow to show that they are a more serious candidate for Super League than the feeble Cumbrians.

Oh come on, it's been years. TWO years. That's ages.

What a ridiculous post.

YOU are not the reason RL exists at all.
Without players, there is no rugby league. They are the most important, not some self-centred know-it-all who preaches from the stands.

Going to watch your team with your heart doesn't get players on a pitch. It doesn't get the best players in your pitch. It doesn't get most out of the players on your pitch.

People want the sport to grow so that their team can achieve more than winning a small competition in front of a few people. It's why the Champions League is so big, and that it exists alongside the Premier League. And why that exists instead of the Yorkshire League.

Professional sport is about achieving the most possible. The most possible isn't just what's I'm front of you today, it's what could be in front of you tomorrow. Some people are worried the team they support won't be able to achieve that and hope tomorrow never comes.

So the players ain't supporters themselves and are willing to play in front of nobody?
Self centred know it all? That statement says a lot more about you than it does me...

Jean, you are so funny at times, you really are.....good man !