I dont understand what you mean by this.



See the OP for details. Why couldnt this happen in RL? A team playing an exciting brand of RL.

Well none of the SL clubs have managed it since 1997.


so who is going to play for this Globetrotters outfit?

And who is going to coach them??

But that would be the Globetrotters aim
Tony Smith would be a good coach for them to have
possible team line up to aim for

1 Billy Slater
2 Ryan Hall
3 Greg Inglis
4 Jamal Idris
5 Kevin Penny
6 Paul Sykes
7 Jarrod Sammut
8 Micheal Vella
9 James Roby
10 Eorl Cradtree
11 Ali Lauititi
12 Ben Harrison
13 Anthony Watmough

If this is a wind up its actually quite a good one.

Sounds good to me , do it

I just spat coke on my laptop, if it breaks your paying for it rich

Thishas the potential to be [size=150[uTHE [/u[/sizethread of the year

Keith "ebay" Senior has a word in Ryan Bailey's ear about signing for the Globetrotters RL Franchise

Can anyone who is against the idea actually come up with any reasons why?
I think its such a shame RL fans believe they have the greatest game but object so strongly to anything which will help spread the game rather than just being played on the M62 corridor.

1. all RL fans already follow a team or 2/3 i myself follow the cru the scorpions and my local RLC team.

a new nomadic team will have what fans? why would people commit to a new team and get involved get passionate about that team if they knew it was going to bugger off in 12 months.

how many cru fans can honestly say if they knew they would disappear to wrexham would actually have got so heavily involved?

2 where will they play that isn't already covered. basically the end of nowhere. scotland. ireland. the isle of man. devon and cornwall. this brings the problems of travel. some fans wont and can't travel to far due to cost and or work etc. plus with only minimal interest in the local area the team would essentially be fully bankrolled by the RFL or some support tax drawn from other sides in SL.

the RFL can't afford it. especially as that team you put up would shatter all possible illusions of a salary cap.

Not all RL fans think like that mate,personally i hope the Crusaders succeed and prove all the doubters wrong.

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I think you have missed the point here. Check the OP. The idea isnt to get current fans to switch alliegence and to start supporting the globtrotters. The idea is to go to a new city and get new fans and players into the game (as stated in the OP). The Globetrotters would stay in each city for three years.



Where would they play that is'nt already covered


Well i suppose it does rule out West Yorkshire and Lancashire, but again check the OP for suggested regions.

manchester? no comment on that stupid idea. edingburgh and dublin great your going to risk millions in RFL funds setting up a team in an area with minimal RL interest. the good people of edinburgh really came out in force to sample the wonders of our game at magic didn't they.Birmingham. ok thasts a good idea and i've previously said a team i needed here to link the dots from london. however if you set it up here where else could you move it to after?

Bristol? please the whole place is a bigger dive than cas. they have a RU team and fooseball team that the locals barely care about. you have bath ru and gloucester ru just up the road so would get almost zero fans till the end of may and from end of august. again leading to huge bankrolling and massive financial risk to the RFL

however i have a suggestion for you. if you so interested why don't you front up a few million and do it yourself.

Nottingham and leicester, two big cities in the midlands (not too far from heartlands), no premiership football????



How about getting some players from other sports in the Globetrotters team. Jonny Wilkinson kicking? Big Show at prop? A decent sprinter on the wing (someone like dwayne chambers, but with a bit of heart)? etc etc

What came first the chicken or the egg. Why are they not interested in rugby league? Because there is no rugby league to watch. Do you think it is because rugby union is more enjoyable to watch? No I dont think this is the case either, so why do people think its not possible to have rugby league away from the M62?

They do. They just think your idea is ridiculous, so much so that it is most likely that you are on a wind-up mission.

It would make more sense (and be one hell of a lot cheaper!) to have 7 seperate on the road games instead of the Magic Weekend, and stage them all in one place (so that that area has 7 games). You wouldn't have to pay for a squad and coaching staff of world superstars that no team could afford anyway under the salary cap.

Someone has too much time on their hands

littlerich or the OP.......or both

This is quite possibly the most deeply thought out wind up on here ever, congratulations to you.

But a complete non starter. You'll never get fans to commit to a club thats going to be upping roots ever year, there's no future for them there. If the 'Globetrotters' could lay down a new team everywhere they stopped, then it may have more potential, but that won't happen either.

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Now that is an idea with some serious clout. I think maybe 7 is to much to start with. However say down where I am in devon there is a growing conference set up, lots of northern league types in the services or retired and stayed here. Perhaps 2 to test the water, say 1 in Exeter at sandy park or Exeter fc and say 1 at the pirates ground in Cornwall. That could work to boost the interest however I doubt it could ever get big enough to support a fully pro team

But they wouldnt be moving every year, it would be every three years as stated in the OP. How can you think some of the best players playing the greatest game, in an exciting style the way it should be and was made to be played, would not attract people to watch it?
And they would lay down a new championship one team everywhere they stopped, this is also stated in the OP. I believe rugby league is the greatest game but currently in the UK its behind football, union, tennis and cricket, this is exactly the sort of initiative that is needed to get the game out there, and to get a competitive international game.

Yea great as I said you pay for it.