What if? : Sat Nov 16, 2019 10:37 pm
Toronto were successful in opening the doors to the North American Sports market and were a catalyst for a succesful US / Cananadian competition? [I don’t think this will happen, it’s taken football decades to make headway, the idea of one RL doing it in the face of vested interests in the sports market is in my view fanciful]. But let’s say it happened and a 10 team well capitalised competition was up and running within a decade and attracting major sponsorship and TV rights. What effect would it have on the rest of RL? Would it destroy the NRL by attracting all their best players? How long before North America could be producing its own players eg those from college football converted into RL players? If North America was successful then would they effectively control the sport and change the rules, have commercial breaks during games every 10 minutes etc? What would become of the small town game in the UK? Any thoughts on the ramifications if the fantasy came to fruition?
