Will be interesting to see how many games are sold out on week 1 after all the internal hype. No one outside of the game is interested in the new era. The fact is that we only have koukash with any kind of ambition and as a result ru and nrl now lght years ahead leaving rl in their wake. The wasp franchise has exploded in Coventry with 20k crowds whereas our attempts to expand fail.

Pretty soon It looks like RL could have a new threat....NFL.

Talk of an NFL Team in London could become a reality on the back of NFL games being hosted at Wembley in the last few years.

I like his ambition.

Totally agree and rl are only thinking now of holding a marquee game in London but it can't be at a big stadium just in case no one turns up! To had a bigger profilebefore the sky deal when crowds of between 30 - 70 k turned up for rl international without any major promotion. Hetherington has taken the game back 20 years with the new structure and I can't see the game recovering due to the lack of the kind of vision Mr koukash proposes.

NFL won't have a London team for at least 10 years.

From reading a few articles (Im not much of an NFL fan!) it seems like they are looking to also host games in different UK stadiums around the country.

Be interested to know what sort fo attendances they get.

And what happens to SL? I know British players are being stolen from our league now, but a team dedicated to British players on top of the talent already over there?

It would be exciting but it would just kill off our premier competition.

The only bloke on the planet who has self-funded an expansion team which went, under his coaching/management/ownership, to become financially viable and soon after won major silverware? You don't think that individual more than any other knows more about the importance of expanding the game?

I wouldnt be so sure about that although i cant see it being too much of a threat when it does it happen

The guy is crazy. What a pathetic idea and it will never ever happen.

He sold because he'd made it a profitable, commercial and playing success with no debt and was given an opportunity to run and part own the biggest club in the league, which he used to play for.

The inability of the subsequent owners of Sheffield to capitalise on the solid foundations created from nothing was all of their own doing - the biggest problem was probably that their operation bore no relation to the characteristically very tight ship Hetherington ran.