Nice piece. As people like to say these days, not following the narrative, from HQ and Sky.
Toulouse will play in the French league again one day, and Torontos owner will get bored. London has a 50/50 chance though.
I expect the SL door to be bricked up soon, and no doubt a punishment can be dished out to the upstarts that we are.
How dare we have a decent side.... what are we thinking.

The elephant in the room which is not mentioned is the appalling crowds at home. You deserve to getting at least 3,000 rather than the hardcore 1,500. Where have they all disappeared to?

Fax have been in the Championship for 14 years without a sniff of Super League so it's no wonder the crowds are what they are.

Every club is suffering. Terrible crowds for the lower SL clubs are now the norm, Widnes and Salford in particular, and Ken Davy must be in tears when he sees barely 2,000 turn up for a CC quarter final match at Huddersfield.

Even the SL top clubs are doing badly. Super hot table topping Saints couldn't manage a 5 figure crowd last weekend, Warrington now regularly getting 4 figure crowds, and even the mighty Wigan and Leeds "lower end crowds" are skirting very close to 4 figures - who would have thought that a few years back?

The "fan churn" (new fans replacing dis-interested/dying fans) is now heavily negative, and despite a surprising glut of Championship full timers this season, I can see some Super League clubs going part time within the next 5 years.

A slight of thread but reported in TOTAL RL>COM this week:
'Wigan Chairman' says "Championship clubs will get the same funding as per T V contract not a penny less for the remainder of its run"

Thank you S L Chairmen, you supercilious bar stewards, we doff our caps in deference.

'King jokers, I just hope the new CEO puts them in their place.

Thats kind of them to honour a contract then. Like they are doing us a favour when they had no say over the matter whatsoever.

They are honouring the current contract but it sounds like they’ll be taking the bulk of money in the next one. That will be the time that the Championship clubs need to sort out their own TV deal, if they are not in SL then why are they included in the deal?