Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:52 pm  

So to divert the hysteria a little. Who do we want in SL next season. Featherstone for me. Would love to see them back in the big time although it would only probably be briefly. I understand the argument for moving the game away from the 'heartlands' and keep an eye on Newcastle etc who are making progress but this whole Toronto thing for me is a bit silly. Even if they have cash to burn it is logistically insane to have them in an English league. In my opinion anyway

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:06 am  

Featherstone for me was always a hard place to go was Post Office Road! Had some big battles there in the days of Brendon Tuta Gary Rose etc

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:08 am  

And yes stupid having a canadian team in the league its a bit embarrassing imo would rather have a english side in

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:13 am  

Always thought Featherstone was a pretty unfriendly place to go. One of those typical mid-Yorkshire clubs, whose fans seemed to personally resent the arrival of an away crowd.

Would much rather give Toronto a chance. An essential breakout from the game's cash-strapped heartlands is long overdue. It may even be too late.

I hear what people say about a Canadian team in the British league being silly, but we've got a French team in it who have more than earned their place and yet who wouldn't exist if they had no option but to perform in some amateur set-up back home, so that genie is already out of the bottle.

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:32 am  

What is Toronto’s financial situation? There was rumours of the money drying up, if so we don’t want a potentially embarrassing situation where they fold under a big spotlight. If there is plenty of money in the club then I’m happy for them to be in the league, we need all the rich people we can get in the Superleague imo.

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:12 am  

Niagra falls is on my bucket list.

Post Office Rd has already been ticked off.

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:34 am  

MattyB wrote:

Niagra falls is on my bucket list.

Post Office Rd has already been ticked off.

having done both grounds numerous times, I'll take Toronto please! The atmosphere after games is brilliant, with people staying at the beer tents (which serve a wide variety of drinks!) rather than sloping straight off home.

Aside from that, Fev are largely Leeds reserves, so I definitely think they would go straight back down, whereas I could see Toronto staying up and picking up some scalps. Well done to Fev making it this far though. That's some effort turning over Tolouse in their own back yard.

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:27 pm  

Fev for me, lets be fair they've been excellent in the play offs I can see them doing the Wolfpack too.

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:49 pm  

Toronto by an absolute country mile. I’ll never for the life of me understand the anti-Toronto agenda.

Re: Anyway..... Toronto v Featherstone Championship Final : Fri Oct 04, 2019 11:18 am  

Given the finances in Canada & the US, if Toronto don't get promoted, they could end up on a not that slow decline IMO. The rediculous Denver experiment & the retendering of the '25 WC has shown that there just isn't the interest over there to fully sustain several clubs (isn't the New York experiment a dead donkey now too?).

(Fev for me - we need to support the smaller clubs over here first & foremost, not pander to some glory boys' fantasies)