Quote Standee="Standee"Catalans?'"
They were already in existence.
How about these other great ideas ?? :
Paris St Germain
Gateshead
Mansfield/Nottingham
Carlisle
Cardiff (1950s)
Cardiff/Bridgend (1980s)
South Wales (1996)
Scarborough Pirates
Liverpool/Huyton/Highfield/Runcorn etc
Kent Invicta/Southend
Chorley/Lancashire Lynx
If you wanted to be really subjective you could possibly say that the post-war expansion into Cumbria(Whitehaven and Workington), Doncaster and Blackpool (already gone) hasn't produced top clubs longer term. Neither have Sheffield Eagles or the perennial London experiments (currently 2 struggling clubs)
Expansion doesn't work, yet it seems to be able to attract ridiculous amounts of money into the bottomless pit !