Start@1873 wrote:
Reading from other official RL sources, Toulouse also have a new owner who is very rich, he has started to look at all NRL players in order to place them above all other championship sides.
Toulouse has a stadium & fan base, the city has 1.5 million population, it is a regional capital.
They scored higher than wakey already.
Therefore it is not a given that we are favourites to win promotion irrespective of results.
I am not sure about how many NRL players they are allowed ie, restrictions we have ?
Yeah, it's close at the moment but I don't recall anyone saying that this was going to be a given at all. Firstly though we haven't been given our points for the new stand and facilities etc, we are also primary tenants, unlike Toulouse should put us above them when it opens.
I remember ME not being happy at all about how our catchment area got designated. Plus if I remember correctly because it can seriously confusing at times, I think I remember a PT post where he said they'll lose the points from when they won their place to SL or something along those lines.
Our attendance looks like it could potentially move a few decimal points up, as long as we get some decent traveling fans from the likes of Bradford, Featherstone, Leigh, Widnes, etc that'll want to come and check out the new and improved home stand LOL.
In the Championship you can sign up a team of NRL players if you can afford them and it's under the cap and they want to play here, they can sign players from down under just like we've signed a few in a relatively short time.
I think all anyone has been for a change is hugely positive about next season and if anything journalists and other fans have almost made it seem it's a given we're gonna be up next season, they've put us as favorites because of our already decent score plus the wealth of the owner and all his plans that he's spoken about from improving the west side to the Social/ Online engagement which we've seen already after a few weeks.
Ateotd we just have to keep picking up the relatively easy points on offer from IMG. Then as long as the team doesn't make balls up of next season it'll be hard for Toulouse to overtake us when the 2025 scores come in. That's as long as we're up there in the finals and hopefully winning them.
