whoosh.

my point is the RFL dont owe any favours to NL1 and 2 clubs that arent expansion clubs. they arent in SL cause they dont derserve it

you could learn from places that expand succesfully

but hey, i doubt that you are actually interested in expansion at SL level

how did australian clubs manage to spread the game in their areas?

i guess we mustve had better transport systems back in 1908

so to sum up :

heartland clubs couldnt expand the game more than a few streets from their home grounds for 70 years because transport systems were so poor and these clubs are only doing it now because of the RFLs franchise criteria.

yeah some of these heartland clubs are the bedrock of the sport

Another thread ruined

Exactly how much time? Is it 115 years, 28 years or 4 (for Hull KR) And for what reasons should clubs have expanded the game geographically? How could clubs 115 years ago know what the RFL's licensing criteria for the next round of franchises would be?

Hello, ello, lo. By heck it's deep down there!

Where would that be? It's pretty easy to expand a competition that until 25 years ago banned non-Sydney clubs into 2 states where RL was already well established and a single club from the whole of NZ (you Aussie trolls even said SL should have a new NZ club so the NRL didn't have to have both), only Melbourne are an expansion club and they're successful due to News Ltd funding alone. SL has 3 clubs outside the north of England, though I suspect that will be back to 2 soon, though eventually back up to 3 with Toulouse.


Of course I want it but until you I value quality and am not impatient. You as good as said yourself you'd rather risk ruining an expansion club and damaging the league than being patient and waiting 5 years (or 3 or 10?) for the time to be right just because you thought it was too long to wait. It really isn't long in the scheme of things and unlike you I'd rather expand right. I suspect you have a hidden agenda of wanting to get rid of expansion clubs by forcing them up early so they fold

Can we please not let dally derail another thread with the usual "everything the Aussies do is right and England do is wrong" boll*cks. It all ends the same way, he contradicts himself, gets humiliated, then runs off and ruins another thread.

Let's not feed him on this one as well.

If I'm not alone and people agree with me, give me a sign! "Let's make this a dally-free zone".

so for 113 years it was in clubs best interest to do nothing expansion wise.

but now because their SL spots will be determined on it they will do something?





that explains why RL has been neglected for so long in england.

that god for the RFL then for making clubs do what they shouldve been doing a century ago