Ralph Rimmer the RL Chief Operating Office announced on tonight's Radio Manchester Rugby League programme that is was just about certain that Toulouse would be allowed entry in to Championship One next season he also revealed that they were also giving serious consideration to an application from a team in Toronto to also play in Championship One Rimmer said this was a very serious application & two executives from the RL had been to Canada & had held discussions with the people concerned he realistically thought it may be too late for this season but if talks progress well they could be accepted for the 2017 season.

on to toronto pronto tonto,,how much will the bus fare be for the away match,, think the RL are something, COYDs

ON something that should be,,

Apparently Toronto have said they will pay all the traveling & accommodation cost for the teams traveling to Canada
And Toronto plan to come over to the UK to play there away fixtures & stay for a couple of six week periods & play all there away fixtures in these two periods

oh, thats ok then,, cos all the champ 1 players are full time pro players who can naff off to canada for a week, "beggers belief"

Must be April 1st again. Ridiculous.

Tokyo and Toledo are next followed by any place starting with the letters t and o.
That's because the RFL members do as well .... s!
lol

I believe the local RL federation in Szczodrzykowo in western Poland have also made a bid.
Could be an interesting one for the Donny announcer....

I'll never forget the day Keighley came to Toulouse. The french announcer had a field day with James Haythornthwaite !

For information about the League 1 competition, check out the following linkhttps://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/32977/kingstone-press-league-1-torl

Bold new look?.......killing the game with more crackpot ideas!

Here's a summary of what the RFL are on about:

Toulouse will almost certainly be part of Championship 1 next season, making it a 15 team competition. A team from Toronto may be admitted for the following season.

In Championship 1, everyone will play each other once. This will cover 14 games, seven at home and seven away.

The league will then split into two. The top eight will be in one league with the bottom seven in another.

The RFL don't mention whether points from the first eight games will be carried over to the second phase of the competition but I'd guess they will be carried over, like they have been when the Championship split this season.

If we finish in the top four of the 15 team league, we would then get 4 more home games, giving us 11 home games in total.

If we finish between 5th and 8th, we would get a further 3 home games. I'll discard the possibility of us finishing outside the top 8!

Presumably, our season tickets will cover us for either 10 or 11 league games based on that schedule.

The season starts off with the iPro Sports Cup. This is a straight knock-out competition for the UK based Championship 1 sides taking part plus two amateur teams. Toulouse will NOT play in this competition. I would imagine our season tickets won't cover entry into any of these cup games. Maybe the club will be informing us about this shortly. The final of the iPro Sports Cup was played as the first match of the Championship Summer Bash this season. The RFL doesn't say whether that will be the case in 2016.

Promotion to the Championship will be decided in the same way as this year. The top team (after 21 games) will play the second team. The winner will be automatically promoted. The loser will join the 3rd, 4th, and 5th teams in a play-off to decide the second promotion place.

I assume the top team isn't automatically promoted due to the fact that the teams don't play each other at home and away. Not playing each other at home and away creates an uneven playing field as some teams may get an easier ride than others. Therefore the top team might not necessarily be best! I'd normally be in favour of the top team getting automatic promotion but I can see why a play-off between the top two could be the fairer way to do it.

That's about it, folks!

If you read the link to rfl website it does say the ipro cup final WILL be played at the 2016 summer bash!

Well spotted Onedon. I must have missed that bit. I wonder if we might be playing in it?

I hope so DM.