Having recently moved to Northern Spain, I am really enjoying being able to nip over the border and still watch Super League - from what I can see, although away fans attendance has dropped off (weak pound, novelty value faded), I get the feeling the Catalans are here to stay. Good local following, investment in the ground.
But, other than them, I can't see the franchise system going to Wales and London (previously south yorkshire and the north east) really working long term. Only survives on funding and cheap tickets, no real support, poor teams.
Do fans think the Catalans are hear to stay? Will you go to the game year in year out, or has the novelty worn off?
Will RL eventually get back to basics and be happy to thrive in the traditional heartlands? Or is expansion the way forward?rl][www.catalanRL.com]

but Lactics will be relegated and playing at LSV by then.

More seriously, though, the struggling heartland clubs have had 100 years to get their acts together, so I think the expansion clubs deserve a bit more time yet.

Think it might be [sizeSIX[/size years now that people have been saying that

So managing to keep the game alive for 100yrs counts for nothing?

Depends on the extent of one's ambition, I guess. Playing in a hundred-year-old stadium in front of a few hundred spectators barely qualifies as alive, IMO.

A dig at the fact that Crusaders are now only 30 miles from Widnes or whatever it is and that there is so many Yorkshire teams clumped together hardly needed all of those is it?