Re: Donnyman expansion discussion threads merged : Mon Sep 21, 2020 7:00 am
Ste100Centurions wrote:
True in the main. However, given Toronto's relative finances during a 4 year period I could take over Wigan Athletic & make them a Premiership Football Club !!!
Well it's not at all true.
You could use the Argyle method to make professional Rugby League "work" in Mongolia.
I am sure a multi-Billionaire could build a ground in Ulan Bator, he could build a hotel to accommodate the teams, and he could spray free tickets to the local populace.....
NO hang on, he could PAY fans to attend the games.
Games in which the "Home" side are all on £1Million a match each with players travelling on a private luxury jumbo jet.
Now that may sound absurd, but it's only a souped up, more expensive model than Mr. Argyle's "Working model"...............
But let's switch to what both Perez and the RFL defined as "working", which is also Superleague's definition......
That was the production of Canadian players and the capture of paying NATV deals.......
In the end something like £30,000,000 was spent by a Billionaire who had plenty more to spend but got an invite to go to Melbourne storm. On the definition of "working" Mr. Perez himself formulated in agreement with the game here, no...Of course it did not "work".........
No kidding this time? Well you learn something new every day. How much investment is there for our game in Toulouse who should somehow knock another English club out of Superleague?
