Cokey wrote:
Do you think he doesn't know this already?
You do know TSH is now laughing because he gotcha.
In mitigation I posted the facts in the spirit of the Mods requirements that all the name calling is stopped and that posts should be, and are, civil and polite.
The post from the Gentleman in question whom I responded to, didn't breach those new requirements so I thought it only polite to reply
The reply I gave centred on something a number of people (not just m'learned friend) can't or don't want to understand, and that is that expansion means an expanded pool of professionals thanks to the North American and French clubs bringing their own through, and an expanded Television income thanks to North American and French clubs getting TV deals to share with us in their own countries adding to the one here.
Let's say Wigan were expelled from Superleague for some reason and Red Star Belgrade replaced them and bought up the Wigan team. This in the eyes of many people on TRL and a couple here would be "Expansion"
only because the distance to games and back had been expanded, forgetting that losing Wigan as an SL club and them being replaced by a fledgling overseas club may well seriously diminish Superleague.
And that reply wasn't exclusively for our friend, it was to anyone who misunderstands what expansion really is.
A really good example of expansion here was the advent of Cumbrian clubs in the period after the war........
