Cumbrian Lakers?

[Pommy]

You have to love crazy loadsofcash and his whacky ideas!

Not Homer, he hates discussion and wacky ideas.

 

[Teddyboy]

Yeah if Barrow was as big and successful a club as Castleford then I would be happy for them to be in SL. But they're not, they are a club that competes around the bottom of the Championship or the top half of League 1 and struggles to attract crowds of over 1,000. The other two Cumbrian teams are even worse. It's also the most sparsely-populated and geographically isolated part of the country. So yeah I don't really see a big incentive for a SL franchise to be placed there.

So why was the 3 Cumbrian teams started for in the 1st place ?