A consortium 3 or 4 years ago means nothing today though.
The problem is the more the word of rugby league spreads in N America, the less important "known city names in UK" is! When the word has spread the importance to Toronto, NY, Hamilton, whoever, will be names in rugby league not big city names!!! They are going to want to see Wigan St Helens Leeds not London Skolars or Oxford Cavaliers.
The hard part with franchise is going to be how many teams. So assuming similar business set up you will have: leeds wire saints wigan hull hkr Hudds Catalan Widnes cas wakey leigh salford Toronto london broncos
That's 15 possible teams
Stick with 12 who do you lose? Out of that lot at the moment wakey, due to stadium, us same reason, the rfl will want Toronto in so Leigh Widnes or salford are out
Make it 14 teams that could play better for us, but even when we were SL our crowds didn't really stack up. So even if we got a stadium I don't think our history helps outr cause, Toronto would get the nod ahead of us