On finance, if your business model is crap but you have a rich sugar daddy as long as said daddy doesn't leave it's as good as being Wigan and Leeds because they'll never be skint or (not a dig) go into administration.

Maybe you should re-post the criteior in bold and in a 36pt font.

And can someone, not based on hearsay, prove where the RFL 'bailed out' London or was it that the clubs democratically voted to allow a new company take them over when they went into administration.

It cant be if they`re getting poor attendences. Higher profile more people, so the profile of the game cant be high in London village.

So you meet the so called criteria and this says basically so what, we'll have who we want in. What a sport

If he really wants to fuel expansion...

Let Quins go into the Championship, sell the telly rights to terrestrial tv so all them cockernees can watch for nowt, and if he's right they'll be so excited by what they see on the telly they'll flock to the ground in their 'farzands'. Where London leads, the rest of the country follows...