Quote: Simon M "Errr, not so fella.
The sport is dying a death as a professional game. The World Cup will be a poorly supported disaster and if London folds an even bigger joke.
What should happen is have London as a club with no foreign player cap and a larger salary cap. Get in good players and be competitive. Forget everything else. If kids in London want to earn money from rugby, play Union. If we want Superleague in London, open the doors wide and make London a real on the field success which would benefit the game as a whole.
It wont happen, too many vested interests and short sighted Chief Execs at other clubs'"
The WC will be fine.
You miss the problems that LOndon has, the main one being money. Raise the cap, double it, treble it, does this mean that they will have any more money to spend? Nope not a penny more.
I am quite okay about the idea that the cap should include London weighting but it's a moot point because they can't afford to spend the full cap anyway.
And foreigners...this is out of date. You can't get decent Australasians now because of the strength of the Aussie economy and the recent NRL Tv deals. The NRL clubs have so much muscle now that SL players move south not vice versa. And you can't get decent up and coming Aussies from below the NRL because of the clamp-down on visas under Cameron. The bulk of London's squad will have to be home grown, it is a shame that Broncos couldn't have held on for another 5 years or so as a SL club.