Looks poorly written and makes you wonder how the championship sides coped with it for years. Like Toronto, these things never seem to be a problem until the ‘problem’ reaches super league.

Some lovely comments about Bradford though. Can they hurry up and parachute us back into super league and prove all the conspiracy theorists correct please

A real sad read for people who want to see the game expand from the M62. Sadly we have some owners who have no vision whatsoever.

People like to take digs at the RFL constantly but should start looking at these super League club owners.

Here is an idea for the clubs that are concerned about no French away fans.

Find a way to attract more of your own fans and sell more tickets. These clubs wouldn't care one bit about away fans if they could fill there grounds with home fans.

To run this story a day after toulouse got promoted is quite telling.

Not Gary Seinfeld is it?

Somebody get the violins out, having to travel to France a minimum of twice a year really is heartbreaking lol.

Quite the joke to complain about when the French sides have to travel to England a lot more than twice.

The paragraph about Featherstone reads as if someone has made this up IMO.

I bet I can guess who the unnamed chairman was. I bet he’s a wake in a field

Makes me laugh, clubs who take about 50 away fans to games complaining about the lack of away fans at their home games.

Bet I can guess all five of your usernames on here and TRL

Now tell me this ain't true? Your not "MC Finchy" as well are you? He's just appeared to tell us Toulouse's needs for getting an SL team together for next season.

Sorry Finchy old pal but it's not so great for posters on here and on TRL the extent to which Jean Capdouze has brought all his family with him onto both RL forums. I suppose it increases the traffic for the boards, but for me I think it puts genuine people off posting, and causes upsets.

Plus it gets out of hand - your troll as Pitouf about allegedly being at the grand final and your young family being upset by drunks was pretty poor stuff.

Here above is a typical troll post of yours designed to get Wakey fans going........ One of probably thousands now.

Its articles like this, and the small minded ambition we have from not only fans but also those running the game, which perfectly demonstrate why our great sport has never reached its potential.

Play Catalans on Saturday, Toulouse on Thursday or Friday or vice versa. Its not rocket science, nor it it hugely problematic. Its actually a great opportunity.

....the only challenge here is small minded chairmen who only see the cost of 5/6 days in hotels, and losing a couple of hundred away fans (who should rightly be made up by home fans much more interested in watching their team play Toulouse than Wakefield or Salford....I will definitely go to our home game vs Toulouse, over games vs basement SL clubs who i'm bored of seeing us play!

Rather than look at minor challenges and threats, those who oppose this should look at the opportunity and benefit this brings. If we manage it correctly it can be huge for the game.

Extra cost of hotels and flights....stop looking at this negatively and start talking to tour operators to be official travel partners and sponsors of the SL (to line up all the fans packages with them etc). I bet you could find more than one tour operator in 48h who would be only too happy to cover the teams travel and accommodation costs in one of their hotels for the deal.
....Now thats a trade off sponsor with ACTUAL value...much better than free livery on lorrys and free pizzas which achieve nothing ....Toronto achieved it with Air Canada in very little time....If only they hadn't been equally small minded to kick them out, they could go and talk to them for some tips!!

In any business i have ever worked, the senior leaders have been required to continually assess opportunities and threats, and adapt and change in a way which meets the opportunities and diminish the threats. ...unfortunately it seems SL and most SL clubs do not operate this way!
Instead we ignore open goal opportunities and adopt a victim mindset to grumble about the challenges and blame everyone else "the world is against us and its only just possible for us to survive"
...The grand final crowd and the Toulouse 'issues' are perfect examples.....approach this positively, constructively and with a change mindset the opportunities outweigh the difficulties tenfold...they just need to look beyond the end of their nose!!

Most telling bit is that RFL is looking for a 'strategic partner', by which they mean venture capital, but they don't want to put them off by publicly espousing small minded, parochial, low aspirational views. So at least they are half way to underastanding the problem.

Spot on!!
This is also why we DESPERATELY need private equity investment though. It will force them to up their game, force them to think creatively, address the game's challenges and seize opportunities, rather than put their head in the sand, ignore problems and blame others for the difficulties!
The sooner we can get private equity involved the better....the game desperately needs the level of accountability and rigour they would bring.

I think you misunderstand what private equity investment is about. It is not about selling future revenues now for a low price...
Most of the time, particularly with smaller businesses, it is about investing money into them to support and realise growth, for the benefits of both. They only realise value upon their exit if the game has grown substantially, and they bring external professional, corporate knowledge and expertise the game doesn’t have to allow us to realise opportunities. So it’s mutually beneficial.

What it’s not doing is what you describe as similar to a high interest loan....saying give us 100 million now and we’ll give you 500 million back in the future!!
They simply take a minority share in the game, which they only realise money on if the game grows when they exit in the future! So it would be the ideal fire under the @rse of those running the game to get them to actually grow it!! Hugely beneficial