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| Quote: Doom&Gloom Merchant "Both the Broncos and Crusaders were massively mis-managed by their owners. It wasn't the RFL which screwed them up. We still see traditional clubs come to near oblivion too - look at Wakefield and Bradford in recent years, go back further to our two clubs, it happens.
Plus, there are still 2/3 London clubs (Broncos, Skolars, Hemel) and two Welsh clubs (Crusaders, Scorpions) in Championship/League1 where Toronto will be.
This isn't some small outpost in Cumbria, this is a major world city. The driving force behind it, Perez, has a number of investors on board with him, as well as the city of Toronto itself. The Major of Toronto was over here was part of the launch too.
They either have the money themselves, or are confident they can create the revenue streams necessary to cover it.
Unless they're working in Victorian England, players who work will get annual leave or can take holiday if self-employed. I'm sure they'd rather take a few days off on a free trip to Toronto with their mates to play rugby, than a week in say Benidorm. A couple of players I know who play at Newcastle are bang up for it (why wouldn't they be).
And the ones that have families Or work in factories that have set holidays and factory shut down in August and Christmas?
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einstien said insanity is when a person does the same thing over and over again but expects a different result: |
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| Quote: barham red "Problem is that although morally the right thing to do it doesn't make commercial sense to invest in areas that are dying, they're dying for a reason and very little will reverse that. New markets have to be explored but its how to do it that is the problem'"
I was been sarcastic ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif)
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| For the games being played in Toronto, they are flying players out on a Thursday, with the game being played on a Saturday and the return flight home on a Sunday.
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| Quote: i hate pies "For the games being played in Toronto, they are flying players out on a Thursday, with the game being played on a Saturday and the return flight home on a Sunday.'"
I wish this news had been made available when the announcement was made, it would have reduced my stress no end.
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| I think this is a great move and shows how innovative and dynamic Rugby League can be. I am sure that other sporting organisations such as the NFL will be very interested in how this all pans out ahead of their own plans for teams playing out of Europe/England.
In the future it's not that crazy to think there could be global leagues for certain sports, especially as methods of travel becomes faster and more efficient. Also I am sure that the people behind the Toronto franchise have got sufficient funding in place along with the mayor putting his support into the project. With enough money to throw into it, they can acheive anything they want.
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| Sports tourism generates a lot of money.
If only a few dozen fans per match travel over, they will spend 10s of thousands on travel and accommodation.
If they can get either 100s or 1000s of fans travelling for one off games, the numbers are staggering.
The problem is how to get money from the tourism industry into funding the sport. Once you find a way to do that, the numbers add up.
The Catalans team generates huge amounts of tourism dollars for their region, as do Auckland Warriors and Melbourne Storm to mention a few.
In a practical sense, it shouldn't be hard to get a tourism authority or even an airline or hotel chain - or a combination of all three - to fund teams to travel and stay at these remote locations, because it's easy to show how they can make money in return.
The ultimate example in the southern hemisphere rugby union comp - which now has teams from all over Australia, NZ, South Africa and is expanding into Japan and Argentina. As travel gets cheaper and people get richer, we will see more and more of this. I'll be very surprized if we don't see teams from Italy, Serbia and maybe even Russia and USA playing in the English League comps soon.
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