The Salford fans on the Red Devils message board appear to be calling other clubs vultures for circling their players and acting selfishly by looking to bend the rules around cap and quota, but I'm not sure they see the reality that they have to offload to survive, and their has to be exemptions for the offloads, as other clubs have either got squads sorted or up to the cap. The Salford board were on a hiding to nothing. Spend in accordance with their actual income and they don't have a competitive side. Spend in accordance with hopeful income and they have, except that the hope was based on local council decisions, which are always susceptible to delays and changes of heart, because of political shifts over budgets. For me, Bradford being back in would be a boon. Okay, I hate Odsal, but it's a bona fide big club, the Rhinos derby is another big fixture, and they are an asset to the top flight, if run properly. Toulouse is good for the French game, but adds little to the English game. Toulouse should be the target of expansion, and it should be based upon expanding the number of clubs, not by replacing another team with Toulouse. That was always the problem with licensing, in that it was based on exclusion, not inclusion, in that it wasn't based on your business case, but whether it was one of the top twelve business cases. The grading system will hopefully expand the game by increasing the club numbers to 14, and cut out the loop fixtures. One way to do that is by increasing the quota spots (or scrapping it altogether). There are some very NRL squad players who'll want to showcase themselves. The only stumbling block is clubs being willing to take a smaller share of the TV money.