What utter nonsense, we have Sky because it's a relatively cheap (nothing like Football) fast, exciting sport!

Your assumption is complete tosh trawled out as fact



Nobody has yet made a compelling, cohesive reason why Rugby League needs to be played in every corner of the land, nothing wrong with ambition, but let's fix the game in it's own backyard first.

The only person talking tosh on here is you.

You really do have quite a big opinion of yourself don't you cos you've failed to even acknowledge anyones views on this subject.

There is actually no point even continuing a discussion on here as you've obviously made up your mind and any other view is just wrong.

I bet you would love it if our game was as popular as bar skittles. Idiot. I can't wait till fans like you walk away from the sport.

Someone woke up Headhunter, he's angry you know

Yes great moderator is Headhunter, only resorted to personal insults twice



Anyway, heaven forfend for actually stirring some serious debate as opposed to which bus I'm catching to next weeks game, I'll see you around folks

Ralph Rimmer stated, in an interview in League Weekly a couple of months ago, that without a London Club the deal on offer from Sky would be worth around half it's current value. So direct from the RFL you can put a figure on it. Now try taking away that proportion of the Sky money from each of the Super League clubs and tell me which ones would survive as full time professional.
I'd doubt Bradford would be able to so just from a selfish point of view we need that presence in London.
Unless of course we cut the money available to players or you have an alternative suggestion for funding the current level of wages?

I have to agree with Frank...get the game sorted in the areas that do give a toss and then lets start to expand in a structured an progressive manner. Not by planting a team in a random area and expecting it to be an overnight sensation.

I've often said it's like taking an RU franchise and getting it to play in Hull and expecting the local sports fans to turn out en masse to support it.

I appreciate that there needs to be a presence in London but the current set up isn't working and needs to be looked at before it's too late.