They have no place in the professional game .....as has already been stated ...the latest "go national" venture chasing something that will never be there for our sport (not that it matters a jot....some folk want to be careful what they wish for!)

Typical of what's gone on in the last ten or twenty odd years ....Gateshead Thunder et al......many of us older farts remember Kent Invicta and Cardiff Blue Dragons .....the Mansfield Marksmen anyone ?

They let clubs that were the bedrock of the game fend for themselves like Oldham....Swinton and others.........and look what they did to Keighley a few years back.....So they can chase Wales or London or somewhere else where it just can't/won't "take"

Eleven years on from a Wembley win and a once regular berth in Super League ....and where are Sheffield Eagles ?......just another failed experiment.

Concentrate on teh heartland of the sport and do everything they can to make it prosper in towns that have always supported a RL club.....It isn't easy to try and make everyone competitive but anything has to be better than this "made up" clubs nonsense

Do you think id phone a cab for a 40 odd mile journey and not ask the price?

This may seem odd but if you finish 7th bottom you get into the play offs (8th place) which i would take at the moment.

Excitement comes from challenging for the title and play-offs or battling relegation.

Eight teams go into the play-offs, that isn't a challenge, the regular season is now meaningless therefore it's difficult to entice new fans.

Unfortunately I think quite a few of the Wigan team would too.