Another nail in the coffin for some heartlands clubs maybe. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... eague.html Any thoughts?

Another nail in the coffin for some heartlands clubs maybe. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... eague.html Any thoughts?

Quote Eastern Wildcat="Eastern Wildcat"Another nail in the coffin for some heartlands clubs maybe. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... eague.html Any thoughts?'" Could be bad news. Talk of NY getting straight into SL by 2020.

Quote Eastern Wildcat="Eastern Wildcat"Another nail in the coffin for some heartlands clubs maybe. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyl ... eague.html Any thoughts?'" Could be bad news. Talk of NY getting straight into SL by 2020.

What next Las Vegas RLFC

Was there last week and didn't hear anything.

It'll be at our expense unless we've got a new ground by this point. It won't matter how well we're doing on the field, if we don't have a decent ground we will get relegated

They've got their hands full with the Raiders movng out there.

Probabaly right but the article also seems to think that the the RFL are expected return to licensing. Fact is whatever happens and wherever new teams pop up, we need a new stadium.

A return to licensing would probably the the worst thing for us as a club unless we get a new stadium

Not against expansion at all, but only in the right way, and not at the expense of traditional established heartlands clubs.

Getting the interest in the sport into the Americas, with the amount of funding that gets invested into sport in general, can only be good for the game. As for our game at national level, I feel this is a nail in the coffin.

I did, a few months ago, mention the fact that there is interest throughout America in the sport, and that it would benefit the sport more if a healthy league was set up.

My hope would be that they establish a few North American teams who compete in both SL and perhaps NRL prior to the USA world cup. Then after they have held the world cup, establish a proper professional North American league system

Sorry but why don't they just get their own league? Not exactly going to be the top domestic league if more overseas teams are being included. The obsession with expansion will ironically erode British Rugby League.

IF there is New York, plus Toronto, Tolouse and maybe a couple more "overseas" clubs in SL, at some point in the future, it wont just be Wakefield's place under threat in SL.
Everyone would go, with the exception of probably, Leeds, Saints, Warrington, Wigan and Hull.

The sport (and more importantly The RFL) needs to decide just where it wants to be in 5/10/15 years time.

The practicalities of having a 10/12 or 14 club top flight with so many overseas clubs are far from straight forward and the travelling and other costs involved would be huge, not to mention a substantial drop in away support, which would affect all clubs.

There needs to be a proper strategy, agreed by all clubs and a plan, for the good of the game as a whole.

If they (the RFL) make a mess of this, it could completely kill RL in this country.
However, IF the sport could take off in North America, France and the USA, there are some major opportunities.