Quote Donnyman="Donnyman"So you have become a WUM then?
If the French TV deal doesn't come with money, one has to ask if SKY would pay more if say Bradford were in Superleague and not Les Cats.
No doubt people will say it doesn't matter, but they ignore the fact SKY need subs from English fans. Bradford have a lot of fans who can subscribe to SKY
Saying it doesn't matter enables so called expansionists**** to suggest a Superleague league in which Catalans and Toulouse can be joined by Ottawa and New York. But as has been said by McManus we lose the TV deal if SKY lose the content they want.
****How is kicking out say Wakefield for Toulouse expansion??
Over to you??'"
tbf, I actually thought that you may know the detail as you are so bloody quick to throw in the negatives.
As for kicking clubs out of SL, no and never.
You will remember that Trinity were kicked out when SL was formed, it was a cr4p decision then, just as it would be now.
The whole ethos behind "Super League" and the move to summer rugby, was to involve a French club and to be different from what we had and of course, secure a TV deal, to rescue the game from the overspending of certain clubs, which had taken the game to the financial brink.
Ironically, we seem to be heading that way again.
Perhaps a "new" venture will come along, with an all English league, playing in winter and only including clubs form "Yorkshire" and "Lancashire" and to qualify, clubs must be no more than 10 miles from the M62 and while we're at it, let's bin off Internationals and the World Cup, just to ensure that our sports profile can match that of "shove ha'penny", another great Northern past time.
The game is on its booty and "we" really do need to find a way to reverse the current trend.
RL will have lost a years intake of kids, who will be playing football and the sport desperately needs some profile, which is shrinking faster than an ice cube in a tea pot.
Over to you.....................
