Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:50 pm  

Donnyman wrote:

Wayne's a great bloke I am sure, but some of the people promoting these phoney clubs in the RL press should know better and should have called it all out for exactly what it is..............................Oh sorry for exactly what it was. It was a bit of fun for Wayne

Yep that's all it was donny a bit of fun seeing you squirming, going round and round in circles back heeling questions you couldn't answer, putting silly emojis as extras in your copy and paste replies, been a reet blast honestly

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:14 pm  

Huge story from John Davidson
The Roosters knew Toronto withdrawing from SL 2 week ago throwing everything said since and especially today into blatant lies. Davidson is ploughing a lone furrow as it seems the other RL media are only reporting on fake positive spin with totalrl a disgrace. In particular. This must nail the failed franchise

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:48 pm  

snowie wrote:

https://www.timescolonist.com/sports/toronto-wolfpack-want-to-become-the-green-bay-packers-of-rugby-help-is-needed-1.24174952

Now he wants to sell it to the fans

Have ownership but expect nothing back in return for your investment

Thats what owning a sports club is like isn't it? There aren't too many making cash out of it in RL, and the only return for some is a day out at Old Trafford or Wembley.

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:57 pm  

craig hkr wrote:

Huge story from John Davidson
The Roosters knew Toronto withdrawing from SL 2 week ago throwing everything said since and especially today into blatant lies. Davidson is ploughing a lone furrow as it seems the other RL media are only reporting on fake positive spin with totalrl a disgrace. In particular. This must nail the failed franchise

It's interesting to read that there may be a short term NRL deal put to SBW for the some part of 2020. I thought that SL rules had stopped the practice of Australians who had finished their season then plying their trade over here. So how come it would work the other way round?

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:03 pm  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

It's interesting to read that there may be a short term NRL deal put to SBW for the some part of 2020. I thought that SL rules had stopped the practice of Australians who had finished their season then plying their trade over here. So how come it would work the other way round?

It's covered in detail in the article Davidson reports on. Truly the Smoking Gun and strips what little credibility today's charade presentation had. Game Over

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:08 pm  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

Thats what owning a sports club is like isn't it? There aren't too many making cash out of it in RL, and the only return for some is a day out at Old Trafford or Wembley.

Suppose it is now just find me 1,800,000 Toronto fans willing to buy them at £100 each

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:29 am  

snowie wrote:

Suppose it is now just find me 1,800,000 Toronto fans willing to buy them at £100 each

But surely that’s the type of ‘solid’ expansion the RFL is after?

It can ‘trumpet’ about the 1.8 million new RL fans in Canada if Ottawa and New York do the same local derbies at major US stadiums, how can TV resist a new sport with 4 million supporters....

And I’ll show my bare b*m on the Town Hall steps if anything ever comes of these stupid ideas it’s time the RFL woke up and smelt the ‘coffee’

The last week has proved SBW is more important than UK rugby league .... even if it’s only four games and some play offs...

It’s a very sad position to look at for me...

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:48 am  

snowie wrote:

Suppose it is now just find me 1,800,000 Toronto fans willing to buy them at £100 each

Or 3,600,000 at £50 each

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:51 am  

craig hkr wrote:

Huge story from John Davidson
The Roosters knew Toronto withdrawing from SL 2 week ago throwing everything said since and especially today into blatant lies. Davidson is ploughing a lone furrow as it seems the other RL media are only reporting on fake positive spin with totalrl a disgrace. In particular. This must nail the failed franchise

It was way back in February when Argylle had his dream chance to buy in at Melbourne Storm. Any gentleman would surely look to transition from one club to another without doing what he did and pulling the plug on TWP half way through a season. Especially causing distress to the players Looking at it now I don't believe Perez or Argyle were ever "expansionists".

YES your right TotalRL ran with it as did League Weekly forever trumpeting this new dawn. I would not mind but these RL publications surely had a duty to their largely traditional readership to be a bit more realistic, and report a bit more accurately rather than be a fanfare for a phoney club that would badly damage the game.

Sure Superleague rightly refused to put the red carpet out and refused the idea of taking in phoney clubs, but what they DID do was a deal with Rimmer that gave TWP entry to Superleague and that was a really strange and damaging thing to do. TWP never had an automatic right to promotion as a guest club but the reports were Rimmer conceded an end to the Middle eights and MPG in return for TWP's promotion.

Did Superleague think that they could just handle TWP by leaving them to struggle in bottom place then go back down again? Did Superleague not know Argyle was looking to go to melbourne? In letting them in it gave Argylle a chance for revenge by him pulling the plug half way through the season. Was the lack of attention to the important issue of visas just an "oversight" did Argyle really "run out of money"

I think not, Argyle got his revenge big time and has gone on to rub it in by suggesting he'll be back in February (a wordplay on the Terminator ). IMHO it wasn't a bad idea to let them in the game but it was a terrible mistake to let them in Superleague. Brian Carney on behalf of SKY is pretty scathing so you can bet the SKY bosses are as well. A naive and terrible mistake by Superleague............

Re: Toronto Wolfpack may pull out of Superleague : Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:43 pm  

snowie wrote:

Suppose it is now just find me 1,800,000 Toronto fans willing to buy them at £100 each

That's as difficult as finding another one person willing to sink some millions into Toronto. I take your point, as you did mine.