They could have worked out travel and accommodation costs and offered to pay them instead. The clubs would have had no reason to deny them the SL grant then.
They should have refused to join without the payment and the RFL/SL should never have admitted them into the sport without that scenario already agreed to. Problem in UK is you have RFL AND SL clubs wanting to run the game. Its a recipe for disaster and this is just the latest example.
End of day Toronto had hardly any revenue other than what was coming out of Argyles pocket. Their only sponsors were Argyle companies and with no SL grant how exactly did they think they were going to survive. Argyle alleges he spent 18mill in just 3 years on them! How was that sustainable? Then to sign SBW on the most outrageous contract ever seen in RL at the same time they werent paying bills just showed how far from reality this guy is.
If COVID hadnt happened there was a good chance they would have been relegated end of this season, how would they have survived back in the lower division?
Argyle makes Nathan Tinkler look like Nick Politis in sports club administration!
Firstly they were already paying travel and accommodation costs for their opposition (including organising f**king visas for what are supposedly pro organisations), and have been since day dot, so obviously that wasn't enough to change the Super League club's minds about giving them the grant.
They were also sponsored by multiple businesses that David Argyle didn't own, like Air Transat and Maple Leaf Diamonds.
You can't blame the Wolfpack for continuing on in the league after being denied central funding that should have been theirs just as a given, especially after they had already invested millions getting to where they were. It's a bit like those that blame the Western Reds for going ahead with their spot in the ARL and then jumping to SL after the NSWRL had pulled their shenanigans!
The RFL and SL shouldn't have offered them entry into the league in the first place if they planned to string them along and f**k them around as they have. The fact of the matter is that the Super League clubs tried to have their cake and eat it too, and it looks like they've undermined another opportunity for expansion as a result.
It's ludicrous to point out that the Wolfpack weren't independently sustainable in the short term as well, because of course they weren't!
They were trying to launch an almost totally new sport to a premium market from scratch. That was always going to need to be propped up in the short term and be incredibly expensive as a result, but that's the only way you are ever going to set the sport up in markets like Toronto.
Honestly you sound like GROTD's complaining about x millions of dollars being spent on the Storm.
