Re: Is it possible that London and Toulouse both get promote : Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:45 pm  

Cokey wrote:

BTW - CMG will now go into hiding now that all his cheeky,quiet swanking about London has backfired

No he won't......we were always going to have bad days.....
We had a bad day at the office v the French, whilst we didn't play to the conditions in the 2nd half against Leigh and got what we deserved. Fax, Rochdale and Dewsbury are MASSIVE games for London now, because if they can get to the return v Leigh with 3 wins under our belts I'd fancy us to win easily at home.....I'll admit I a not as comfortable in regards to the top spot, but I still feel 2nd place is achievable.

Re: Is it possible that London and Toulouse both get promote : Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:51 pm  

Call Me God wrote:

No he won't......we were always going to have bad days.....
We had a bad day at the office v the French, whilst we didn't play to the conditions in the 2nd half against Leigh and got what we deserved. Fax, Rochdale and Dewsbury are MASSIVE games for London now, because if they can get to the return v Leigh with 3 wins under our belts I'd fancy us to win easily at home.....I'll admit I a not as comfortable in regards to the top spot, but I still feel 2nd place is achievable.

Oh c'mon, we gifted you your first 12 points with our countless mistakes, when we really should've put the game to bed. Seeing that you are a good number cruncher, It will be interesting to see if you find out what the % completion rate was.

Re: Is it possible that London and Toulouse both get promote : Wed Apr 04, 2018 6:31 am  

Cokey wrote:

Oh c'mon, we gifted you your first 12 points with our countless mistakes, when we really should've put the game to bed. Seeing that you are a good number cruncher, It will be interesting to see if you find out what the % completion rate was.

London's was 43%....which was appalling. Leigh just played clever in the 2nd half and deserved it......well done, you're only 2 wins away from the 4 now, or 2 more losses from obscurity.......walk that line with care

Re: Is it possible that London and Toulouse both get promote : Wed Apr 04, 2018 7:58 am  

Call Me God wrote:

London's was 43%....which was appalling. Leigh just played clever in the 2nd half and deserved it......well done, you're only 2 wins away from the 4 now, or 2 more losses from obscurity.......walk that line with care

Cheers

Re: Could Toronto, London and Toulouse all get promoted? : Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:31 am  

The Easter weekend games show that Toronto, Toulouse and London on their best days are within a whisker of each other. All three deserve promotion to Super League.

If necessary the RFL needs to change the rules to make this happen.

Re: Could Toronto, London and Toulouse all get promoted? : Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:14 am  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

The Easter weekend games show that Toronto, Toulouse and London on their best days are within a whisker of each other. All three deserve promotion to Super League.

If necessary the RFL needs to change the rules to make this happen.

Along with Leigh who were never in doubt wupping London.

Re: Could Toronto, London and Toulouse all get promoted? : Thu Apr 05, 2018 2:52 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

The Easter weekend games show that Toronto, Toulouse and London on their best days are within a whisker of each other. All three deserve promotion to Super League.

If necessary the RFL needs to change the rules to make this happen.

Why, because they are "within a whisker of each other" do they "deserve" promotion ?
Should you not include Featherstone in your supposition or, are traditional clubs now exempt from promotion.

Re: Could Toronto, London and Toulouse all get promoted? : Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:13 pm  

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

The Easter weekend games show that Toronto, Toulouse and London on their best days are within a whisker of each other. All three deserve promotion to Super League.

If necessary the RFL needs to change the rules to make this happen.

Why not go down the normal route of win your games, and if enough points then you will be promoted. The same rule with relegation.

Your constant plugging for Toronto, Toulouse and London to be given a SL slot makes you look desperate to have teams that so far haven't deserved their SL slot yet.

And going off your way of thinking, who would they replace.

Re: Could Toronto, London and Toulouse all get promoted? : Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:35 pm  

RoyBoy29 wrote:

Why not go down the normal route of win your games, and if enough points then you will be promoted. The same rule with relegation.

Your constant plugging for Toronto, Toulouse and London to be given a SL slot makes you look desperate to have teams that so far haven't deserved their SL slot yet.

And going off your way of thinking, who would they replace.

Correct Roy.

Re: Could Toronto, London and Toulouse all get promoted? : Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:36 pm  

RoyBoy29 wrote:

Why not go down the normal route of win your games, and if enough points then you will be promoted. The same rule with relegation.

Your constant plugging for Toronto, Toulouse and London to be given a SL slot makes you look desperate to have teams that so far haven't deserved their SL slot yet.

And going off your way of thinking, who would they replace.

Salford, Widnes, and either Wakefield or Hull KR. (My preference is Wakefield go down because of their paltry fan base and dreadful ground).

That would make a fantastic Super League:

Wigan
St Helens
Warrington

Leeds
Hull FC
Hull KR
Huddersfield
Castleford

London

Catalans
Toulouse

Toronto

That would leave room for future expansion to include New York and Boston in a 14 team Super League, and later Montreal and Avignon in a 16 team Super League, and even later possibly Philadelphia and Paris in an 18 team Super League. Once we got to the 14 team situation I have described, the media in Britain and France would start to sit up and take notice of Super League. By the time we get to 16 teams the same will happen to the media in north America. However this scenario assumes two major developments:

(1) a switch to licencing from P & R by the RFL.

(2) a recruitment of majority local players from the expansion countries, because there aren't enough quality English or Antipodean players to fill 16 or 18 SL teams.
Toulouse is showing that this is no pie-in-the-sky regarding France, because they now have a large majority of French players. They only need a couple more Antipodeans to compete well in Super League. Toulouse's ascent into Super League will attract more French youth away from rugby union and into our game. The same thing will happen, though more slowly perhaps, in the case of the north American teams.