We have far too many teams in the small northern towns, we need to make super league more european to bring in the big money and compete with onion on the international stage. The expansion id go for would be something like this: (with the weakest northern club dropping down to the championship every 3 years to make way for them)

2012 Toulouse
2015 South Wales
2018 Edinburgh
2021 Dublin

It become more clear with every passing day that your screen name is ironical.

Why?

Off the top of my head - gene miles, dale shearer, kerry boustead, greg dowling, martin bella - all stars of the game from North Queensland who played before the cowboys. Probably hundreds more. There's been RL in townsville since 1914, north queensland played the lions on pretty much every tour in the old days, beating GB once or twice. It's more of an RL heartland than _anywhere_ in England, that's for sure.

Or... we could take advantage of the open pathways offered to our sport since the fantastic events of 1995 and build from the bottom up. As another poster has said with a RL team based in every town, city, school, college and Universtity in the UK

If, as we all believe, we have the greatest game of all then we will see it grow now that the atificial restrictions have been removed

Professional teams should be built on demand for the sport not by parachuting teams into areas with no desire for the game

No, the idea of just throwing teams from places from non RL backgrounds and expecting it to work is taken from 1996.

A successful Super League team (10k crowds, financially sustainable) in somewhere like Edinburgh would probably take 50 years work. You can't just put something somewhere and expect it to work - that was the 1996 attitude and it's proven time after time not to work.

Only idiots would think that it could work when faced with all the evidence to the contrary.

I think Toulouse is the exception, as it has the base and the interest to support a SL club there.

YES Queensland and Auckland are both RL heartlands, strong RL playing and supporting areas for a hundred years! The ONLY EXPANSION team in the NRL that is not a heartland team is MELBOURNE.

Hope that is a bit clearer for you, if not let me know and I'll get my crayons out and draw you a picture, you being a Hull fan and all that!

ps Wellington, Adelaide and Port Moresby along with Perth will all be excellent!

Quote eels fan="eels fan":lol: couldn't have said it better myself.'" so apart from not knowing the history of Balmain you also don't know the history of RL in NZ and Queensland, your ignorance amuses all. This might help you: www.rl1908.com/Clubs/Queensland-Cowboys.htm www.aucklandleague.co.nz/display ... p?item=334

Quote eels fan="eels fan":lol: couldn't have said it better myself.'" so apart from not knowing the history of Balmain you also don't know the history of RL in NZ and Queensland, your ignorance amuses all. This might help you: www.rl1908.com/Clubs/Queensland-Cowboys.htm www.aucklandleague.co.nz/display ... p?item=334

It's certainly a better bet than Edinburgh or Dublin, but they're hardly bursting at the seems crowd figures-wise at the moment are they? It'd be nice for them to prove they can get more people through the gates over the next three years before throwing them into SL imo

Yes, it was, it just didn't have a pro team.

So you'd relegate actual real teams to make way for fictional ones?

I think you are confusing fantasy rugby league with reality.