Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 10:27 am  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

The people with the brains in Super League, of whom Ian Lenagan is the supremo, will want Toronto to win tonight. There is simply no advantage to adding a geographical pinprick of a former pit town to a competition that proclaims itself "Super."

Toronto's victory on the other hand, will usher in a burst of media attention, and a reevaluation of the significance of rugby league from a British media that has rightly been contemptuous of the game's regional parochialism. If Toronto can retain its place, and Toulouse is promoted to join it this time next year, then we can look forward to an era of international development and respect.

Assuming that Toronto will be allowed into SL - there were a few issues recently, they will gain promotion on the field of play and not because of their geographical location and as RL is a sport (just) that is exactly as it should be.
One thing in Featherstone Rovers favour, is that there is a hotbed of RL talent locally, which they may be able to draw from and some of their local players will actually get a game next season, unlike their opposition

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 10:49 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Assuming that Toronto will be allowed into SL - there were a few issues recently, they will gain promotion on the field of play and not because of their geographical location and as RL is a sport (just) that is exactly as it should be.
One thing in Featherstone Rovers favour, is that there is a hotbed of RL talent locally, which they may be able to draw from and some of their local players will actually get a game next season, unlike their opposition

This is short term thinking. Toronto will not have any local players in the team next year. But if the team is successful for several years, we may well see Canadian players emerging in five years. That would be far more significant for the growth of the game than a handful of (mostly journeymen) players that Featherstone could generate in the next couple of years. Having Canadian born players will make Canadian sports fans and the Canadian and British media stand up and pay attention to the game. Having a few journeymen emerge from the obscure Yorkshire pit town will impress nobody.

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 12:43 pm  

Can't wait! Let's see if their bum falls out like last year. Fev have no pressure. Come on the Flatcappers! If Toronto fail again do you think they'll have another go?

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:34 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

This is short term thinking. Toronto will not have any local players in the team next year. But if the team is successful for several years, we may well see Canadian players emerging in five years. That would be far more significant for the growth of the game than a handful of (mostly journeymen) players that Featherstone could generate in the next couple of years. Having Canadian born players will make Canadian sports fans and the Canadian and British media stand up and pay attention to the game. Having a few journeymen emerge from the obscure Yorkshire pit town will impress nobody.

Toronto could have risked a couple of homegrown players when they were trouncing all before them in League 1 b 50+ points a game.
You and I know that in SL, they wont have anyone for at least 5 years, maybe much longer and more importantly, where will these players actually come from.

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:36 pm  

For the bigger picture, Toronto need to win. There is no point having another small northern town who have to rely on super league academy players on loan to survive. If we went to grow as a sport then we need Toronto and not fev

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:38 pm  

Look at that crowd. Besides Leeds and saints the rest of super league could only dream of attendances like that

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 7:09 pm  

Lol

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 7:11 pm  

Lol

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 7:21 pm  

Steph Curry wrote:

Look at that crowd. Besides Leeds and saints the rest of super league could only dream of attendances like that

Watching the game is much better than head counting, you need a life.

Re: Featherstone : Sat Oct 05, 2019 7:22 pm  

Steph Curry wrote:

Look at that crowd. Besides Leeds and saints the rest of super league could only dream of attendances like that

Heard more noise in my local supermarket atmosphere is drab