Good luck to them, the sport would be massively better off for a competitive Newcastle team in SL.

Where they benefit from teams like London is that they isn't this ingrained anti RL bias amongst the locals that makes growing a team difficult. Hopefully some Geordie with money to burn gets the bug and helps make it happen.

And let's be honest - it's a cracking away game for us travelling fans!

Newcastle is a nice town. It is where Eric Burdon and The Animals are from. There must be something gritty and soulful about the place. But from my time there I noticed that Newcastle had some nice pubs and bars, and girls with nice knockers, so it would not be a unenjoyable away trip.

Went fishing 'got a few bites' !!! Well done to all concerned. Newcatle Thunder aim to get 'promotion' what is wrong with that ? Hoped a few would knew who I supported, or 'searched my posts'.....yes I follow the arrogant/dirty Leigh Centurions.

Cheers Pal !

Supporters of the game complain incessantly that this sport doesn't get media coverage.

The Newcastle Chronicle is currently printing RL content every day this week and has actually been very positive and supportive of the event. Its hacks are obviously looking for more content and Newcastle Thunder has obliged, providing a perfectly innocent "one day we'd like to be in SL" comment piece.

What on earth is there to sneer at?

Wigan.

The ideal situation is if we see Newcastle in Super League in conjunction with London Broncos, London Skolars, Toulouse, Paris, Bradford, Coventry and Oxford, at the expense of Wakefield, Castleford, Widnes and Leigh. The latter four would do nicely as advertisements for the M62 Championship. At the same time Super League would look more national and international.

At that point nobody in the mass media would would be sneering at the 16 team Super League anymore.

You are just Sad

Why not shorten your name to give the braincell a little respite?

No surprise to see a Leigh follower pass comment,and slur,on another club without even reading about the putative reasons for the liquidation.

No surprise to see Keith Christie being one of those from the Geordie Nation who jumped on the 1992 Kevin Keegan bandwagon.

No surprise to see the Leigh born Mick Hogan have a foot in both camps but keep well away from Leigh following his education in a north east university and interest in the other code.

It is no doubt down to the influence of Mr Hogan that the investment and assistance afforded to the Thunder club has been realized.

It is a surprise that someone from Leigh has some discipline,affability and success.

Starbug here , what have Leigh gambled ? , given current home averages , a decent cup run , £ 500 K central funding and possibly 23/24,000 fans generating a quarter of a million income if we get 4 middle 8 home matches , I don't see a lot of gambling going on

In fact I'd suggest a profit isn't out of the question if we can beat Wire in the semi

I don't really mean in money terms I mean the players signed that are super league quality and you have a few will they stick around if you don't make SL this season that's the problem

ha ha, says the trolling moron himself !!! You couldn't make this up ! You forgot to take your medication again.