Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Thu Sep 20, 2018 3:57 pm  

If they are not good enough for SL, then relegate them...Its that simple.

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:09 pm  

"We'll all better off" No we wont, we'll be exactly the same or maybe even worse off.

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:18 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

To enable us to negotiate a strong multi year tv deal in the UK, France and Canada. Tv networks are only interested in showing the top league, hence no Championship RL is on tv (other than Toronto who currently film their own games for Canadian and British networks to spread RL throughout Ontario and Canada)

French and Canadian networks won’t want to sign up to showing RL when their team/teams could be relegated from the top tier.

We will all be better off financially if French and Canadian clubs are guaranteed Super League status.

Please explain why ?

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:13 pm  

Indeed. Please do explain.

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:30 pm  

HXSparky wrote:

Indeed. Please do explain.

I'm still waiting for him to tell us when he went to a Toronto game at Toronto.

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:42 pm  

Kennedy wrote:

nice speech are you an MP by any chance ?

no...I am a human being

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

French and Canadian networks won’t want to sign up to showing RL when their team/teams could be relegated from the top tier.

What utter guff.
French networks have had a decade and more to sign a lucrative TV deal and haven't, whilst 7,000 people at a beer festival in a council stadium with no seats and no roof but a hot-dog canon is hardly going to have the networks queuing up to sign PAYED FOR TV deals......we lost London and SKY didn't say a dickie-bird about it......if our existing broadcast partner can get us on the cheap, why if christ's name would another network want to pay more.

Remember. Toronto in SL next year won't be paying for away clubs to travel/stay, but they will be taking their pound of flesh from the SKY pool....if they rock up empty handed, I expect them to be gone inside a couple of years........

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:24 am  

Since when has Bien sports been French?

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:39 am  

atomic wrote:

Since when has Bien sports been French?

about as French as the Tongan RL side are TONGAN

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:01 am  

Was the existence of a canadian based team vital for the future of RL, say, 20 years ago? Why now all of a sudden? We wouldn't even be talking about a canadian based team if some rich guy hadn't decided to create one off his own back a couple of years ago.

Re: Who will replace Widnes: Toronto, Toulouse or London? : Fri Sep 21, 2018 10:32 am  

At least Toronto, Toulouse and London give the game a different dimension and something to talk about. Without their distraction, we would be talking about a sport at the top level dying on its booty, year on year on year.