The grand plan

[Gobsmacked]

Toulose to miss out despite ranking higher on the img criteria than the other three

How long until the NRL throw their hat into the ring?
It's getting ridiculous. You pay IMG all this money so you can take things in a clear direction foward.. decide to ignore their recommendations and sack them because they don't do what you want?

 

[BuffaloRules]

Well that's f'n depressing. If there was ever a time for NRL to act..

I suspect the Poms will happily take the NRL’s money but not their direction and advice …

 

[Pippen94]

I suspect the Poms will happily take the NRL’s money but not their direction and advice …

Only rebel league works

 

[Gobsmacked]

I suspect the Poms will happily take the NRL’s money but not their direction and advice …

The NRL are only interested if they get full control and that's what some pompey clubs want too $$$ will convince the rest.

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

I suspect the Poms will happily take the NRL’s money but not their direction and advice …

Carbon copy of when they took the Murdoch money in the mid 90s.

 

[AdelaideSharky]

Pommies won’t give up administrative control to the arl

Nor will they allow clubs like Wakey and cas too be booted and toulose allowed in

It was interesting the press release mentioned super league as a gateway to Northern America

Perhaps the nrl could be looking at reviving the Wolfpack

Yes f**king please. I adored that club.

 

[Wb1234]

 

[Gobsmacked]

Is that Bradford?

 

[Perth Red]

cough cough

 

[Wb1234]

cough cough

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Is that hbf park?

 

[Perth Red]

Is that hbf park?

canberra, kogorah, manly, belmore, LO, Campbeltown. People in glass houses!

 

[BuffaloRules]

canberra, kogorah, manly, belmore, LO, Campbeltown. People in glass houses!

Gets criticised by a fellow Pom …immediately attacks superior Australian grounds …

You are very defensive..

Be nice if you want the NRL to bail you out

 

[Pippen94]

Is that hbf park?

Hbf doesn't even have league history and traditional

 

[AdelaideSharky]

Hbf doesn't even have league history and traditional

Yep, ex-Australian Rules ground that became a stadium for the round ball game.

 

[Wb1234]

Shows what some clubs are doing

Don’t need nrl so much

 

[Wb1234]

Allied to all of this is growing opposition to the concept of French teams. They don't want Catalans to have any Sky money, and they don't want Toulouse in at all. The thinking (which I don't subscribe to) is that these French clubs take more from the pot than they bring in, that they don't add enough value to the sport in the UK. Of course, this point can be debated endlessly

The Dragons are already paying close to an additional £1 million this year in travel costs for all the other teams and the officials to fly to Perpignan for their home games. The talk is that in 2026 the RFL could take all of Catalans' central distribution, and share it with the newly promoted clubs, so the Dragons will have to stump up around £2.4 million just to participate, and that's without including what they have to spend on their players.

It is madness.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Seems pretty dumb ..although the guy writing the story doesn’t want expansion anyway… “ Sky doesn’t care how many teams there are, they just want a close competition “…

 

[Pippen94]

Allied to all of this is growing opposition to the concept of French teams. They don't want Catalans to have any Sky money, and they don't want Toulouse in at all. The thinking (which I don't subscribe to) is that these French clubs take more from the pot than they bring in, that they don't add enough value to the sport in the UK. Of course, this point can be debated endlessly

The Dragons are already paying close to an additional £1 million this year in travel costs for all the other teams and the officials to fly to Perpignan for their home games. The talk is that in 2026 the RFL could take all of Catalans' central distribution, and share it with the newly promoted clubs, so the Dragons will have to stump up around £2.4 million just to participate, and that's without including what they have to spend on their players.

It is madness.

How can NRL sit back a let big city, big money rugby league team disappear?!

 

[Wb1234]

How can NRL sit back a let big city, big money rugby league team disappear?!

Catalans can afford it if it happens

14 teams isn’t bad either just toulose for York

 

[Pippen94]

Catalans can afford it if it happens

14 teams isn’t bad either just toulose for York

York only advantage over Toulouse is it's a shorter away trip for m62 teams. Toulouse has big money investor and changes perception of sport. NRL used superleague teams in Vegas to show game wasn't just Australia and NZ.