Ok my take on this is...firstly i would imagine logistics have already been discussed between TWP and the RFL, the have seen it can be done so they did it.
This from what i can gather is being financed by a rich Canadian in charge of the club.
All air fares, hotels and transport covered by them, so costing the RFL the sum total of sod all.
You tell me any one of you, right this second that if i gave you a bit of notice that you wouldn't take a free ticket off me, all expenses paid to spend 3 or 4 days in Toronto? Easy sell for the players with maximum potential of 2 games a season in Canada at that level.
People arguing it weakens Canada's RL because we'll be taking a side out of the equation? No if anything it gives players in other teams something to strive for and play in a more established league.
Small clubs some with no money and some with insular fans some both, arguing it could stop them from getting in SL? So what, especially Leigh, you had a chance last season and it was obvious you wasn't ready. If they overtake you and take 'your' place in SL so be it. The clubs with no money moaning, can gfts. Sick of clubs with not enough £ having too much of an influence.
To the fans that say it is too far or too much....simple, don't go, listen on the radio or you could be lucky and it be in tv, it is not your right to go to games no matter how much you want to. I missed Widnes last week and will miss Wigan tonight and gutted on both scores, it is what it is.
To those that say it will fail...it may well do but it is at zero risk to the rfl and all the costs are coming from Canada, so what is your issue?
"But we should invest in Cumbria" why should we, why?
It's just hills and floods and occasional towns spread out over miles, Barrow is a toilet, Workington and Whitehaven not much better all spread out over miles, Penrith stinks (no seriously it does) and has a small following and the biggest place in Cumbria isn't really interested in RL.
Then we have clubs like Oldham, Rochdale and Swinton who should be growing the Manchester game, all dying on their backsides.
Liverpool isn't interested, Lancashire has no professional clubs anymore (no I'm not getting into a debate about sodding old Lancashire)
Newcastle have a passing interest, counties next to the 'heartlands' like Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire even to a large extent 'South Yorkshire' couldn't give a monkeys about RL, we have paid lip service to it in London, Wales and the Midlands.
So why the fk not Canada? We live in a modern age, the pits have closed (not getting into a Tory/Thatcher argument either) times have changed, when the Whippet passes away then buy a labradoodle, put the donkey jacket in the clothes bin, wear baseball cap or a flat cap that isn't tweed, possibly buy a kangol and get with the modern world.
