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Canoeman wrote:
Well to be honest with you I'm still trying to figure out how this weird 8's things works...I thouht I had it but maybe not. Last year in league 1 the winner got promoted along with the second place team...Okay...but in the middle 8's is it possible for all the 4 Championship teams to go up?....and just where exactly does this Million Pound Game fit in? I don't know....you are asking the wrong person about this.

As per your comments as far as I know Toronto are based in, of all places, Toronto....thats why they are called Toronto. I don't know about SL in bankruptcy but I do know Toronto played the whole first half of the season away and no one in this scenario will even come close to flying and traveling as much as Toronto....if flying is a true disadvantage and Torontos players/team fly by far the most then, logically, Toronto would be the most disadvantaged by far. Just another logistical problem Toronto will have to overcome but we will meet the challenge.


It is possible all four could swap but highly improbable.

My guess is that SL will miraculously increase for next year and Toronto and Leigh will both be added to the new 14 team structure.

I know where your team is based, I just don't care. You're simply yet another team like all the rest as it should be in a fairly structured league.

If you make it to the m8s, good luck, but obviously not at our expense.
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£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.

There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :BEAT:

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but I do know Toronto played the whole first half of the season away and no one in this scenario will even come close to flying and traveling as much as Toronto....if flying is a true disadvantage and Torontos players/team fly by far the most then, logically, Toronto would be the most disadvantaged by far.

As works of absolute fiction go, that's a cracker :lol:

The vast majority of the toronto squad have been able to live at home with their mothers in the north of England, playing their away games in far flung reaches of Yorkshire. Only their away games v Toulouse and London would have involved more than an hours travel for most of them, meaning that they will have prepared and conditioned for the timezone and weather conditions.
The 10 visiting sides to Toronto, after the cost of toulouse being flown their prevented them actually making the trip, will have all rocked up into a different time zone and different weather conditions, many taking a couple of days off work to do so, to play a Toronto side, again decamped in a time zone and accustomed to the weather.
European sports leagues are a funny thing......we generally have a at home followed by a week away.....but this year, even though the school playing field was considered good enough last month, Toronto have been given another leg up on their quest to buy SL status by not being made to play in Canada one week and england the next...... Whilst Championship chairmen may have rolled over, good luck next year trying to get the fixture list skewed.....that is unless you come armed with a juicy fat TV contract :CRAZY: :lol: :CRAZY:

As for the play-offs. It should be home and away, week in week out......if the Mancunian Canucks don't like it, then why not simply take your ball Hamilton, Boston, NYC and Florida next year....but please do remember to pay all of the suppliers who are owed money first :SUBMISSION:
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As works of absolute fiction go, that's a cracker :lol:

The vast majority of the toronto squad have been able to live at home with their mothers in the north of England, playing their away games in far flung reaches of Yorkshire. Only their away games v Toulouse and London would have involved more than an hours travel for most of them, meaning that they will have prepared and conditioned for the timezone and weather conditions.
The 10 visiting sides to Toronto, after the cost of toulouse being flown their prevented them actually making the trip, will have all rocked up into a different time zone and different weather conditions, many taking a couple of days off work to do so, to play a Toronto side, again decamped in a time zone and accustomed to the weather.
European sports leagues are a funny thing......we generally have a at home followed by a week away.....but this year, even though the school playing field was considered good enough last month, Toronto have been given another leg up on their quest to buy SL status by not being made to play in Canada one week and england the next...... Whilst Championship chairmen may have rolled over, good luck next year trying to get the fixture list skewed.....that is unless you come armed with a juicy fat TV contract :CRAZY: :lol: :CRAZY:

As for the play-offs. It should be home and away, week in week out......if the Mancunian Canucks don't like it, then why not simply take your ball Hamilton, Boston, NYC and Florida next year....but please do remember to pay all of the suppliers who are owed money first :SUBMISSION:


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£20 a ticket and £15 on beer and merchandise.....so an away fan is worth £35. At best, 1,000 is the average away support split across 11 rounds and I am being really generous here, so Toronto, replacing say Wakefield will cost a SL club £35,000.
The minimum turnover of a SL club is £4,000,000 so Toronto instead of Widnes is worth less than 1% of a SL clubs turnover.

There are many valid reasons for and against expansion into America, but "AWAY FANS" isn't one of them. :BEAT:

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Again. Another non-relevant and off-topic response designed to get a rise out of someone. I have news buddy......this is a forum to discuss RL issues. All you do is scramble around trying to look smart when you don't have an answer to a straight question. I pointed out the obvious flaw in the fixture schedule and you come back with more inane and unfunny rambling. I asked about the shirt supplier and you ramble about some imaginary issue with tax......ignoring the fact that your side are still wearing the Kit supplied but having not paid for it....you incorrectly claim that ticketing/collection/counting is the job of the local municipal council.....it isn't, but when faced with this, you ramble, babble and generally act like an idiot.....maybe you should audition for a part in the next series of Letterkenny? Whilst you're there, ask what sort of camera angle can make a 4,000 seat stand look empty whilst apparently having 3,000 people in it.......blaming Premier TV for the empty looking stadium is "trumpesque".

btw......I've only been to Leigh once, supporting my side in 2005 and it's a fair bet that I've forgotten more about expansion sides than you'll ever know.
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you really are a duck no wonder you got a ban on totalrl forums, stop being an annoying winker before you get banned from here. you are just adding to the dislike of the silly wolfpack on 'ere that's all.
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Again. Another non-relevant and off-topic response designed to get a rise out of someone. I have news buddy......this is a forum to discuss RL issues. All you do is scramble around trying to look smart when you don't have an answer to a straight question. I pointed out the obvious flaw in the fixture schedule and you come back with more inane and unfunny rambling. I asked about the shirt supplier and you ramble about some imaginary issue with tax......ignoring the fact that your side are still wearing the Kit supplied but having not paid for it....you incorrectly claim that ticketing/collection/counting is the job of the local municipal council.....it isn't, but when faced with this, you ramble, babble and generally act like an idiot.....maybe you should audition for a part in the next series of Letterkenny? Whilst you're there, ask what sort of camera angle can make a 4,000 seat stand look empty whilst apparently having 3,000 people in it.......blaming Premier TV for the empty looking stadium is "trumpesque".

btw......I've only been to Leigh once, supporting my side in 2005 and it's a fair bet that I've forgotten more about expansion sides than you'll ever know.


You honestly think I care about how many times you've been to Leigh?....you are so full of yourself you don't even understand...so distrustful.....sad.

Its hilarious...every question on rugby and the TWP you have asked has been answered truthfully but you totally are unable to comprehend that...you constantly resort to personal insult and disbelief, then you change the topic and go on some drug induced rant, like a spoiled child at the fair who gets no candy floss because he is already overweight and it would not be good for him...if you can't handle the truth then don't ask for it...
Your the kind of guy who gets out of his car to argue with the stop sign...CRAZY MAN, CRAZY!!
Get it together Man.
STOP THE HATE!
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you really are a duck no wonder you got a ban on totalrl forums, stop being an annoying winker before you get banned from here. you are just adding to the dislike of the silly wolfpack on 'ere that's all.

You are the same guy who sends me the hate filled PMs attacking TWP and then stating that you are a formal moderator of this forum (incognito under your current call sign) and then threatening me.....nice.

Hello....anybody home?????.....anyone????
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You are the same guy who sends me the hate filled PMs attacking TWP and then stating that you are a formal moderator of this forum (incognito under your current call sign) and then threatening me.....nice.

Hello....anybody home?????.....anyone????



stop being a drama queen, I did not threaten you as I am not a tough guy and I have no intention of going to toronto to try and find you. what i said was 'stop being a n*b, or you will be banned from this forum'. do you not admit you are annoying, or is it just normal to you. hate filled pm's get a grip.


p.s below is the ONLY message i have sent to canoeboy....and he know's it. (I pretended to be a mod to make him calm down, but to no avail)
"Stop being a **** on the Leigh Centurions forum. carry on, and you will get banned from the entire network.
I am a moderator under a different user name. BEHAVE YOURSELF !
You have previous on totalrl.com....stop being a D**K !"

Terry x

there you go, hopefully mods can look at messages and know that you are telling lies/being a cry baby. :SUBMISSION:
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stop being a drama queen, I did not threaten you as I am not a tough guy and I have no intention of going to toronto to try and find you. what i said was 'stop being a n*b, or you will be banned from this forum'. do you not admit you are annoying, or is it just normal to you. hate filled pm's get a grip.


p.s below is the ONLY message i have sent to canoeboy....and he know's it. (I pretended to be a mod to make him calm down, but to no avail)
"Stop being a **** on the Leigh Centurions forum. carry on, and you will get banned from the entire network.
I am a moderator under a different user name. BEHAVE YOURSELF !
You have previous on totalrl.com....stop being a D**K !"

Terry x

there you go, hopefully mods can look at messages and know that you are telling lies/being a cry baby. :SUBMISSION:


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