Plans afoot to bring a New York club into Super League

[Stallion]

Very ambitious idea but I have doubts over how competitive they would be as well as the regular travel across the Atlantic.

Wolfpack have proved it!? Can't see why not! Good luck to them! All power to these pioneers! Long overdue progress!

 

[Golden point]

I think everyone needs to think of this as the way towards a professional north American comp. You can't just say hay presto, I have 8 teams in 8 cities with 8 rosters and 8 millionairs in 1 year ... now go and attend this great overnight sensation. I think if they can get mabe 4 pro clubs up and running then they could make a leap for 6 or 8 with enough interest...... IN 2025!

you heard it here first.

 

[Stallion]

I think everyone needs to think of this as the way towards a professional north American comp. You can't just say hay presto, I have 8 teams in 8 cities with 8 rosters and 8 millionairs in 1 year ... now go and attend this great overnight sensation. I think if they can get mabe 4 pro clubs up and running then they could make a leap for 6 or 8 with enough interest...... IN 2025!

you heard it here first.

All good. Positive thinking with entrepreneurial vigour. And the main benefactor is the code of rugby league and sport for that matter! This is long overdue for rugby league and the code will shine to genuine and deserving growth.

 

[roughyedspud]

Wolfpack have proved it!? Can't see why not! Good luck to them! All power to these pioneers! Long overdue progress!

Toronto proved it with a team full of Englishmen..

We learned a decade ago that having a Welsh team in super league,with zero Welshmen,does nothing for Welsh RL...

imposed a 10 player domestic rule per squad and watch them struggle

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

This has confirmed what I revealed weeks ago. Rugby league is on the move in the northern hemisphere while the southern hemisphere stagnates.

 

[Stallion]

Toronto proved it with a team full of Englishmen..

We learned a decade ago that having a Welsh team in super league,with zero Welshmen,does nothing for Welsh RL...

imposed a 10 player domestic rule per squad and watch them struggle

Good luck to them. Got to start somewhere? Given that most school systems don't encourage /have rugby league the game needs to show itself to the public. And the Toronto Wolfpack are doing that with success. Credit to them!

 

[Golden point]

Toronto proved it with a team full of Englishmen..

We learned a decade ago that having a Welsh team in super league,with zero Welshmen,does nothing for Welsh RL...

imposed a 10 player domestic rule per squad and watch them struggle

Stay negative, good for you.
Meanwhile the rest of the rugby league world celebrates as we will possibly have a team in what most consider the greatest city on the planet! And to top it off it will be pushed by a few millionairs that will ensure that it gets the promotion and exposure it needs to succeed. Yeahhhh! Wooohooo!

 

[roughyedspud]

What's negative about wanting the millions being spent on Toronto & NYC to be spent on having a pro north American league instead?

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

What's negative about wanting the millions being spent on Toronto & NYC to be spent on having a pro north American league instead?

Because the millions being spent on Toronto and New York will not be enough to establish a professional league in the USA or North America. That task, with just 10 clubs, would cost at least $100 million a year, not $20 million a year.

In addition there are barely enough professional players for 2 north American clubs now. 4 clubs would be a stretch.. 10 clubs would be impossible.

 

[adamkungl]

What's negative about wanting the millions being spent on Toronto & NYC to be spent on having a pro north American league instead?

Not really realistic straight off the bat.

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

Possible North American League:

Toronto
Montreal
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Jacksonville
Chicago
Houston
Denver
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles

You will have no chance of seeing that before 2026 at the earliest (after the 2025 World Cup is played in north America). And that would still require a successful, nationally televised World Cup, leading to an outpouring of interested owners and sponsors, as well as potential players..

 

[Golden point]

What's negative about wanting the millions being spent on Toronto & NYC to be spent on having a pro north American league instead?

Whatever

Possible North American League:

Toronto
Montreal
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Jacksonville
Chicago
Houston
Denver
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles

You will have no chance of seeing that before 2026 at the earliest (after the 2025 World Cup is played in north America). And that would still require a successful, nationally televised World Cup, leading to an outpouring of interested owners and sponsors, as well as potential players..

Well i think an 8 team league first off

Possible North American League:

Toronto
Montreal
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Jacksonville
Chicago
Houston
Denver
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles

You will have no chance of seeing that before 2026 at the earliest (after the 2025 World Cup is played in north America). And that would still require a successful, nationally televised World Cup, leading to an outpouring of interested owners and sponsors, as well as potential players..

1 club at a time is great...that requires a lot of promoting! Imagine trying to promote an entire comp at once.... instant fail.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

What's negative about wanting the millions being spent on Toronto & NYC to be spent on having a pro north American league instead?

Because taking the money needed to fund just one team and spreading it across 12 will just give us 12 shitty teams....

On the other hand, a single team in SL will garner support and grab attention, which will then bring in MORE money. Do this with a second, third and fourth team, at which point there might be enough local interest to create an independent comp.

Having said that, if the Trans-Atlantic thing works well enough to get to this point, why change it? Create an American Division to make the most of the local derbies, them have a combined play off. The combined comp gives the US teams legitimacy to say they are competitive in one of the best RL comps in the world and it will make this single comp very wealthy (probably wealthy enough to scare the ARLC and clubs off their asses and back into the early-90s expansion mode)

 

[roughyedspud]

Whatever
.

Good answer kid...

 

[roughyedspud]

Because taking the money needed to fund just one team and spreading it across 12 will just give us 12 shitty teams....

On the other hand, a single team in SL will garner support and grab attention, which will then bring in MORE money. Do this with a second, third and fourth team, at which point there might be enough local interest to create an independent comp.

Oh like what happened with the Celtic crusaders?? How did that work out??

Exactly!

There's more than enough millionaires and billionaires in North American to invest in a 8 team,2canadian & 6 American clubs,north American league..if Eric Perez wants to impress..go do that!

 

[Golden point]

Oh like what happened with the Celtic crusaders?? How did that work out??

Exactly!

There's more than enough millionaires and billionaires in North American to invest in a 8 team,2canadian & 6 American clubs,north American league..if Eric Perez wants to impress..go do that!

Quick round up all the billionaires! Let's get this party started!

Stop trolling- you're embarrassing yourself or at least start thinking of a new user name.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Oh like what happened with the Celtic crusaders?? How did that work out??

Exactly!

There's more than enough millionaires and billionaires in North American to invest in a 8 team,2canadian & 6 American clubs,north American league..if Eric Perez wants to impress..go do that!

So if one big teams fails, why would 12 shitty teams do any better?

 

[Stallion]

So if one big teams fails, why would 12 shitty teams do any better?

In rugby league's curcumstance its different. Given that the game doesnt have establishment propagation of the code like union, rugby league must get the message out there in as much a high profile way as possible. The strategy involved with the Toronto Wolfpack and hopefully the New York club will sew seeds of attraction that otherwise would not have eventuated under the current way things are for rugby league with respects to a lack of presence in schools and universities etc. Its about the only way this great code can get itself noticed and out there. Its basically circumventing a system that doesnt propagate rugby league and saying "Here I am! What do you think? If you like me join the fun!"

 

[roughyedspud]

Quick round up all the billionaires! Let's get this party started!

Stop trolling- you're embarrassing yourself or at least start thinking of a new user name.

Trolling?? Shut up you frigging idiot..you barely have 300 posts !!

Go research how arena football league or the national lacrosse league was set up! Especially the NLL!

Eric perez has already, apparently,shown he's able to drum up enough interest,somewhere upwards of $15-20m, to invest in Toronto and NYC,if he is involved in NYC?,that to me shows there's potential in other cities too.....and theres a north American "super league"...that's the future! Not having Toronto & NYC in the English system!

 

[Golden point]

Trolling?? Shut up you frigging idiot..you barely have 300 posts !!

Go research how arena football league or the national lacrosse league was set up! Especially the NLL!

Eric perez has already, apparently,shown he's able to drum up enough interest,somewhere upwards of $15-20m, to invest in Toronto and NYC,if he is involved in NYC?,that to me shows there's potential in other cities too.....and theres a north American "super league"...that's the future! Not having Toronto & NYC in the English system!

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