Ddi Hendo make a statement or has he just picked up and gone?

from the club site

So no 2 of yr top 3 then god means Toronto should not qualify for franchise then? Just saying!

Check out Ralph Rimmer's quote at a Bradford Bulls supporters event recently. He laid out 4 return on investment criteria teams will be expected to meet to get central funding. Toronto meet two on the spot, providing a new audience and new funding. London arguably meet one, providing new playing resources.

The world is changing. London have a serious chance of getting a franchise. If they don't it's game over. Semi pro from here on. I think it is fairly well known I am a joint season ticket holder at Broncos and Oxford. I'm expecting to be told tomorrow that I only have one team to watch next year. New central funding rules are kicking in and London need to work to them or else.....

as the RFL now allow you to have fingers in many pies after stopping pieman Lennigan investing in us as well as Wigan maybe Lennigan and Toronto will form a consortium to keep us in a super league if it goes the franchise route. Then I woke up

Toronto seem to tick quite a few boxes......I say seem because some think they have over reported crowds.
They are backed financially (as are we...but they seem to do more than just accept the handouts and wait for more)
They have a plan which they make no secret of and have ambition, huger and expertise in place.
They market themselves and the game to the extreme
They cost traditional clubs nothing....nada....zilch. If anything, they attracted some of the bigger crowds to their away games this year.

I'd have Toronto in tomorrow in a newly formed and franchised SL before the likes of Salford, Wakefield, London, Huddersfield et al......they have started with aplomb but the proof of the pudding is in the eating and as we're not getting that just yet, let's see how they build on their stellar work in year 2.....3 and 4.
If they are a top 4 Ch team next year, then anything can happen.........and on paper they are the strongest side in the division thus far.

Your top 3 criteria
Financially stable!!! Are Toronto not a rich mans toy at the moment?
Youth development! Toronto don't have any.
Stadia! Sub standard pitch for NL1.
So by your top 3 requirements Toronto don't qualify

They are currently stable
The are currently trawling the continent for new players
They play in a stadium that is adequate for the climate that they play their games in......I've seen little complaint about uncovered seating.

BTW...the irony of anyone from London questioning a stadium or calling it substandard is quite delicious........we play out of a wedding venue FFS.

You seem intent on arguing with me on many points purely because it's me.......you really have no basis to argue against the point that Toronto have started light years ahead of where we were after 20 years in the top flight....they are fully deserving of praise as we are fully deserving of ridicule.

If Henderson had any inkling that we'd be in SL any time soon he would have stayed...he didn't! Toronto will be in the mix at the end of next year and we won't.....

Thats how I read his statement in league express. Took us as far as he could.

As far as he could because of his level of experience and ability as a coach, or as far as he could given the limited money pot and resources ?

I suspect the latter.

I think the truth is, Hendo was offered the Warrington job with the lure of the Head coaches job in the future. A BMW car thrown in probably and it was too good an offer to refuse. You cannot blame the guy and good luck to him.
I do not think the Broncos making Super League or not came into it. It was a chance that came his way and he took it.

If he felt the team was strong enough to go to SL or there was a favourable chance of a SL franchise I doubt he would have gambled on being asst coach with Briers to Price a guy he doesn't know. After all his bluster of loving the job, moving south with family etc etc its a bit of a knock. But hey let's move on.
Just goes to show how well the coaches do at successful PT teams in the championship.

And now Amanda who will be missed she was the best game day person the club ever had. Admin sound as a bell and knew how to turn negatives to positives

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Has Amanda left?