I concur although I think the RFL will invite Toulouse in and kick both of us out regardless of circumstances.

That way they get the expansion again in Super League to benefit the French and they get a Rhubarb Triangle derby in the Championship to raise crowds and profile in the lower league (and also to maintain rivalry).

Until Cas & Wakey combine in this scenario, ignore the RFLs clever no lawsuit agreement, and sue the living daylights out of the RFL for running an unlawful system and breaking the guidelines by letting Toulouse apply

Personally i think that if the cas job was available Kear would jump at the chance! Can see him been there next year..

Matterson has 1 year left, then he said that's it for his time at Cas so 2 years until Kear even has a chance

That is a complete and utter joke, lawn tennis & pie man need to go coming up with bizarre crap like that.

If they want to do franchising, DO IT PROPERLY kicking teams out is not how you expand a league, or a sport, you get a core group (the current 14) then add a team every so often like the NRL & American sports, not every 3 years after making clubs spend millions on improvements just to be ignored.

after reading rl express today the article about cas have funding in place, i am quite surprised! the article mentions funding by wakefield council but i am sure that they have said that no funding is available!! also the valuation of wheldon road is now no longer the same as when earlier?

Without turning this into another stadium thread, the council went back to the original 2m each thing between the clubs.

Presume it relates to the loan of the parcel of land. The most interesting thing in that article was RW admitting he did not know yet how much the stadium would cost but was basing it roughly on what Chesterfields cost as it is similar !!!

Good point. An easy way of raising the profile of the Championship, and a good way for us to train on our own youngsters and the wannabes from Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield for a SL career. Put your RFL-tinted specs on and you can't really argue against it, can you?

Thinking about it, I wouldn't be surprised if teams had already been told, would a sponsor really agree a big deal with a team (Cas new one the biggest in club history, one of the biggest in SL) and would teams go about signing a fair few players when they aren't certain about what league the team will be in in just over a years time, because on the other hand, would the clubs accept deals with get out clauses for the players/sponsors.

It won't, because there are already more than enough of them, and any more stuff added to it will simply get deleted from this thread.

Whilst you may be able to claim its the biggest in Cas history, not sure how you know what everyone elses sponsorship deals are worth to be able to claim it is one of the biggest in SL