Hull FC Pip Toronto Wolfpack in Pre-Season Friendly With the start of the 2017 season looming on the horizon we got the chance to take a look at Rugby League's newest sides, Toronto Wolfpack. The side who will enter Championship One in a few weeks time were in Hull to take on the Challenge Cup holders as they continued their preparation for Superleague. It was a chance for Paul Rowley to test his new charges against a Hull side tipped to be pushing for major honours again in 2017, with Lee Radford likely to try a few interchanges if things were going their way. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Hull FC Pip Toronto Wolfpack in Pre-Season Friendly With the start of the 2017 season looming on the horizon we got the chance to take a look at Rugby League's newest sides, Toronto Wolfpack. The side who will enter Championship One in a few weeks time were in Hull to take on the Challenge Cup holders as they continued their preparation for Superleague. It was a chance for Paul Rowley to test his new charges against a Hull side tipped to be pushing for major honours again in 2017, with Lee Radford likely to try a few interchanges if things were going their way. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

There were no other friendlies played today......

Damn right Dat Cuz !

*gettin' down wit da kidz innit*

Did leigh play

Fearful & bitter Leigh fans all over a Toronto thread like flies on sh!*.

Gets a good-sized chunk of coverage in today's Times. Toronto game, that is, not Leigh's.

Well, Mr grim reaper

The whole Toronto forum is littered with your post,so don't tell porkies.



There is 2 post in total from Leythers and one of them is to welcome them to the RL forum.

sorry, I just don't get the interest in a bunch of mercenaries, the game is dying on it's feet. I am all for expansion of the game but how does this work when we are looking to get bums on seats at all levels, once the novelty as worn off what will happen? Will this be another RFL project to be propped up to prove a point.

I don't have the answer to the problem, however a fail to see how a Canadian team long term will work, sorry honest opinion.

From the interview I saw from Perez he believes a Toronto team that is even just mildly successful will put thousands of 'bums on seats'. I just don't see where the risk to our game? If after a few years they fade away then what have 'we' (the sport) lost really? Nothing that I can think of.

Now what if they reach SL in five years? At worst we get a holiday out of it!

In theory they only need to grow their fanbase to 3k and they have already surpassed Salford/London...etc!

I really don't get the negativity.

They are funding the venture themselves, so no risk to other clubs or the RFL, it's taking RL to new places, getting new people from different countries playing the game, and there seems to be genuine interest.

There are plenty of hurdles and it might not work, but if it doesn't then it doesn't really matter. If it's successful on the other hand then it's huge for the sport and the international game.

the negativity is from those that feel threatened imo

and if redgunner feels they are just a bunch of mercenaries, he should know, salford have had plenty! lol

Firstly, this isn't an 'RFL project'.

What is it that makes you feel that it can't work? In terms of getting 'bums on seats', this falls squarely at the respective clubs in my opinion and has little to do with Toronto. A North American team in League One has absolutely no bearing on why Salford or Huddersfield can't generate respectable crowds, or why Bradford can't pay their tax bills on time.

The game needs to spread to new markets. I've got no idea whether Toronto is the sort of market that is the future of this sport, but I think you'll forgive me for thinking that Toronto offers much more to progress this sport than most of Cumbria or the West Riding.

I listen to Perez and, quite frankly, he is what this game has missed for years. He is probably the only CEO / Chairman who knows how to get his story across, and is actually speaking about this sport with an infectious enthusiasm (Koukash is probably the exception, although his approach is much more combative). I'm sick to death of listening to the "woe is us, this isn't fair, we can't do this, it's the RFL's fault" that comes out of most club chairmen - if we had 12 Super League clubs run by 12 Perez's, the sport would be miles ahead of where it currently is.