Would be interesting to see how Toronto go in another season of the Championship. How many seasons in the second tier would they last before investors, players and fans started to jump ship?

Only thing that matters is the investor. I think fans are more likely to become bored watching a crap team in SL than a team winning week in week out at that level. Players will stay as long as they're paying as much as SL teams. So depends how long Argylle wants to prop them up for.

I think they’d be fast tracked into SL before they spent to many seasons in the championship

Ta-dah...

...oh.

Anyone who thinks there were 7,500 there yesterday needs to put down the Kool-Aid. As a Wakefield fan I know a 4k crowd when I see one.

Lol from a Wildcats fan....Wakefield average 4k...

Exactly. So I know full well what 4k people inside a rugby ground looks like and it looks an awful lot like Toronto yesterday.

Plus those around the beer tents. In N.America, people roam around

No Canadian players, no academy, no covered stands, no hospitality or corporate areas, cheap season tickets. Only so long a benefactor can run on free tickets and beer festivals. We'll see how many of them they can put on when they're getting pumped by the big boys...

Another Trojan horse thread started by someone with a Wolfpack-bashing agenda who contrives to dress it up with a semi-reasonable subject line.

Yawn.

Off to pick aphids off my roses.

Next season will be tough - either losing the majority of games in SL or walkovers in the majority of games in the Championship. The only silver lining is that the fans seem to care little who they are actually playing and care more about a good social event and the brand than anything else. As for the players, they will continue to sign up as long as they are paid enough. I don’t think many of them would earn a big contract anywhere else. A lot of journeymen.

If Toronto makes Super League in September then the club must sign some quality NRL players. At least two backs and three forwards.

What a pity that we don't know Toronto's Super League prospects right now because the club could snare Jarryd Hayne, who is off contract at the end of this year, while finally showing some top form. He is the kind of person who loves a foreign adventure, as we know. Parramatta want to retain him, and have made him an offer, so I suspect that he will make a decision to stay at Parramatta before Toronto's fate is determined.

The RFL's promotion and relegation system, with its late season outcome, is what makes it hard for newly promoted clubs to attract top quality players. That is one of many important arguments for licensing.