Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 12:24 pm  

Stupid idea.... end of... Whoever came up with this nutcase idea wants banning from ever being around the sport for life. Makes no sense for any reason at all... apart from fulfilling somebody's idiotic fantasy that Rugby League will one day dominate the world.

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:12 pm  

LoyalFan wrote:

Stupid idea.... end of... Whoever came up with this nutcase idea wants banning from ever being around the sport for life. Makes no sense for any reason at all... apart from fulfilling somebody's idiotic fantasy that Rugby League will one day dominate the world.

Say what you're really thinking LoyalFan. What do you see as the negatives?

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:29 pm  

It would be interesting to see what sort of crowds they draw at home, I seem to think the national team pulls a decent amount in when they play their 3 test series against the USA.

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:41 pm  

Barrie's Glass Eye wrote:

It would be interesting to see what sort of crowds they draw at home, I seem to think the national team pulls a decent amount in when they play their 3 test series against the USA.

The National side play at the same stadium, Toronto seemingly being the nerve centre of RL in Canada.

Going off Wikipedia (I know ), the last two home National team games vs USA and Jamaica in 2014 attracted 7,356 and 3,129.

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 3:15 pm  

If it doesn't cost us anything then shy not give it a shot, some have said elsewhere to expand into Scotland, we tried Wales and it didnt go too well, don't see how Scotland would be any different.

If RL can get a foothold in Canada maybe it could make a bigger impact in the USA, if we want RL to really be taken seriously then these are the opportunities that we need to seize.

Only 4 games are to be played away, im sure there is an easy way to decide which teams get to go, and the players will only need to take a week off if that.

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 3:25 pm  

If the Canadians are funding the travel and accommodation for the existing clubs then what downside does it have? I'm struggling to see one.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:12 pm  

Him wrote:

If the Canadians are funding the travel and accommodation for the existing clubs then what downside does it have? I'm struggling to see one ey.

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:24 pm  

Exiled down south wrote:

Nothing like getting ahead of yourself!

I wasn't being particularly serious. But to be fair, if someone is stumping up money to set a team up over here, they're not doing it because they want to play in the Championships are they?

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:42 pm  

Doom&Gloom Merchant wrote:

The National side play at the same stadium, Toronto seemingly being the nerve centre of RL in Canada.

Going off Wikipedia (I know ), the last two home National team games vs USA and Jamaica in 2014 attracted 7,356 and 3,129.

Yeah as far as I know they are always getting 7,500 or so for the usa games. Shame they didn't qualify for world cup, would have been great publicity.

Re: Canadian club in 2017? : Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:45 pm  

Union has a league with clubs from Aus NZ and South Africa, so I think a Canadian club could be possible in super league, but not league 1. A load of league 1 teams lost to amateur clubs in the challenge cup a few weeks ago. It's hardly a league that's ready to go global.

If we are going down this silly they need to get promoted route, at least start them in championship, a year of winning easily and losing loads of money will achieve nothing.