This idea is most probably garbage and impractical and unworkable, but I've just had a coffee so I'm buzzing and thought I'd mention it anyway.

Most people in the UK (myself included) don't have a local RL team to follow. At the moment people either watch as neutrals, or they have to adopt a team that really they don't have any affinity with. For some people that can work - for example football legend Stuart Pearce has adopted Warrington - but for me it's never felt like a satisfactory option. I sometimes think that I should pick a team, but I can't then decide who and I then conclude I don't really care enough to bother anyway.

What if they created a team (I'm calling them The Nomads) that wasn't from any particular area, but could play at different venues throughout the country and could be supported by anyone currently without a team of their own. Obviously they would need to be parachuted somehow into Superleague, so that they're playing at the highest level. Not asking much there, I know! Home games for The Nomads could then be wherever in the country you wanted. Just hire the local football or sports stadium in Bristol, Norwich, Portsmouth, and away you go. Cheap entry and a chance for the locals to watch a top level RL game on their doorstep. Maybe even play the match immediately after a football game, as a sort of two sport double-header. Plus you diehards from the north would be able to visit other parts of the country as away fans. Everyone's a winner! Forget Toronto or New York - you could be visiting Stoke on a wet and cold Friday evening. I suppose they'd be a bit like a club version of the RU Barbarians concept.


RL should sort it now before RU steals my brilliant idea.

I mean, do it for one season at least, just as a gimmick and for the publicity it would bring. No plans last long in rugby league anyway, so who cares if it disappears after one year?

I think you should go back to sleep and carry on dreaming

I actually like the concept - sure there's be a mountain of logistical issues, and it probablywouldnt garner the support it needs to work, but I do like the concept.

For it to have any chance of success, in the short term I think you'd need to give them almost double the salary cap. You'd need the squad to be almost like the Harlem globetrotters, to have any chance of attracting the neutrals around the country enough to get them attending in person and parting with their hard earned, they'd need to be a very strong team.

Towns could potentially 'bid' for games, so rather than relying on attendance figures for cash, they'd simply go to the highest bidder. Or have a set 4 or 5 locations spread across the country that they revolve around.

Highly unlike to work or take off, but I like it....

We already have a nomadic team. It is currently called the London Broncos.

Works for Man Utd

You should have stopped typing there

I think Oldham Roughyeds have had more grounds in recent years than the Broncs?

David Hughes, another Salfordian like Derek Beaumont, could do better by investing in the Reds?

St David of Swinton is, in my personal opinion a salesman who will never admit he has made a mistake. His business decisions and hiring policies took London from being a mid table side with an average attendance of 4,917 in a state of the art Rugby Stadium, to playing in the 2nd tier in front of 750 people at a wedding venue....all for the knock down investment of a paltry £28,000,000 over 12 years......now, as I say, this is my opinion...other than the numbers....they are a matter of public record.
As he has no current business strategy for the club other than to write cheques, it's fair to assume he has no exit strategy either.......so like Beaumont (another salesman who was infallible in his own eyes) at Leigh, when he walks, the club will drop like a lead balloon.

As I recall you were living in London at the time, didn't you offer your marketing expertise to Sir David?

Nope.......because £25,000 was what I earn't in 2 months at the time, not a year and his idea of a marketing budget was something akin to the price of a pint and a packet of crisps.
So long as he can rock up and watch HIS team, he's a happy camper and there's a bunch of about 50 sycophants who pander to him and tell his he's wonderful........so everything is OK until he dies........then London Broncos will be the poor relation to the Skolars in a nano-second.

I did put together a scheme to raise funds for the clubs marketing which the RFL approved and even the Union Landlord was keen to get involved with to help the League Club......but nope....he knows best

I do hope the appropriate taxation departments were in receipt of such contributions and declarations.

PAYE meant they were.....b'stards!