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Good win by Rovers, HFC announced running up big debts, St's march on, Leeds are still poo, Giants the surprise packet so far,
Leeds have a much better squad than Toulouse. They'll be safe.
Considering RL's position in the UK, and Europe more broadly, I wouldn't have pro & reg at all. Or at least not for the foreseeable future.
And they never will be because what reasonable investor is going to spend the tens of millions of pounds necessary just to get a London side to a point where they might be competitive at the level of SL when in a year or twos time it could be for nothing and they are back at square one, especially when considering the RFL and SL's history of treating expansion clubs like a nuisance that they will tolerate for the publicity, but only so long as they don't impact on the traditional clubs competitiveness.
English rl has flipped between p&r and closed shop it’s entire existence, it isn’t copying anyone. the flip side of that argument is that with p&r any investor could buy any club in the second division and take them into SL where as without it they couldn’t and it would be like nrl waiting decades for the opportunity to expand. If big investors wanted to take london to SL there is a clear and fair route to get there.
I think that’s been Londons, Leigh and looking like Toulouse‘s problem. Costs a lot of money to fund a SL club In that first year as there isnt the sponsors or crowds to generate the revenue needed to go out and sign a squad capable of staying up.
