The problem of a chasm between SL and Champ is fixed by narrowing it rather than pulling up the drawbridge and so I find myself agreeing with Maurice. It is not very long ago that we had 20k+ attending the Champ Final with a big TV audience.
76030_1540929970.jpgJESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg
Quote: maurice "No I mean a two division full time SL. we should be currently able to central fund £1.8m and £1m pa respectively, but secure a better deal to increase that imo. One up/down between divisions and possibly a 2nd bottom v second top million pound game. Clubs apply to join every 3 years, at which point failing clubs can be replaced or the leagues expanded. The gap would be closer and fixtures very competitive in both comps, I also believe in min spends not max'"
I'd settle for a 16 teams (2 conferences of in a licensed SL with strict criteria surrounding player development, financial sustainability and other independently monitored facets surrounding the running of the clubs in general. Play your conference buddies H&A and the other conference teams once meaning 22 games with the top 2 in each conference playing semi's and the winners the GF and the bottom clubs in either conference playing off with the loser to play the top 2nd tier team in a MPG.
I believe that this system would be the current 12 SL sides with the top 4 of the Championship 2018 joining.
I don't think there is either the player pool nor the finance to support 20 sides at a decent level in the UK at present, but if all 16 sides were enforced to run academy sides with a view to having reserve grades as mandatory after 5 years, then I believe we would see the player pool grow.
76030_1540929970.jpgJESUS WEPT HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg
Quote: Colly2 "I just looked it up. A mere 10 years ago. We built the Champ final up into a big event and then stopped it. Leeds don't even get 20,800 at Headingley.
Joe Westerman....now there's a talent that never reached its potential.....
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HOW MANY TIMES?????
£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.
There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. 
:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_76030.jpg
in a licensed SL with strict criteria surrounding player development, financial sustainability and other independently monitored facets surrounding the running of the clubs in general. Play your conference buddies H&A and the other conference teams once meaning 22 games with the top 2 in each conference playing semi's and the winners the GF and the bottom clubs in either conference playing off with the loser to play the top 2nd tier team in a MPG.
