Bulls4 wrote:
The problem is though, with the money available to Toronto, they are always likely to spend money and bring in more recruits to help if they look to be in trouble. Whether it’s done legal or not is another thing but they wouldn’t be the first to find a work around and avoid relegation.
If you followed the story of TWP's arrival in SL with a thin squad, you will note how all the English Superleague chairmen collectively said that that was their own fault and mismanagement. They won't be allowed a "way to work round" anything as all eyeballs are on them. Their only get out was the prospect of the game being brought into disrepute if injuries lead to a supposed Superleague club (1) failing to have a full compliment of fit players on the bench, and worse than that if they were denied "special treatment" (2) ending games with 12 men or worse.
They were cut a small amount of slack because they have several heavyweight fixtures to get through in the coming weeks and if nothing had been done to help them then we could have been risking (3) blow out scores in one sided games in which a TWP club official would have to be ready to run on the pitch with a white flag. Such a situation cannot be tolerated as the fans are paying to watch a match not a slaughter.
We have seen that before when Toronto were put on BBC TV for their challenge cup game at Warrington, and they didn't like losing so they cut up rough and backcahtted the Ref leading to sin bins and sending's off with the game collapsing as a farce before a national audience. They conceeded 66 points...
Dave Woods would do really well to remember that given his latest comments on TWP being the saviours of RL in the Northern Hemisphere
