Just out of interest, with Wire going from strength to strength and the prospect of stadium expansions do you think you would end up playing a couple of games on the road to try and tap into the populous of the Cheshire-Stafford area by playing at Crewe or Stoke? Hypothetically, if this was the case would you happy and do you think it would work?

no

Ok, thank you for your insightful thoughts

Cant see it myself, but if the RFL are reading this you can be certain somebody is now ringing Villa Park re next years Magic Weekend with a view to including a midlands side in the next round of franchises.

Mike my money's on the Faroe Islands for the Magic Weekend. That way the RFL can tap into Scotland, Iceland, Norway and Denmark all in one go! Think of what that could do for the international game...

Hold it on a oil rig and tap into the American market............ Then again, maybe not!!!!!

There is no rugby league presence in the midlands. Even rugby union doesn't have teams decent teams there. It would be a total waste of time as football dominates every other sport down there.

Are Leicester and Bath not Midlands ?

Bath is not Midlands more like South West but Leicester and Northampton Saints are Midlands

I wouldn't mind us playing a game in Chorlton given that I live there like. Not sure where it would be mind.

Other than that, nah.

How about playing at Wembley at the end of August.

Maybe we could play a game in Bradford tomorrow.

no way pedro, i pay for a season ticket to watch games at the hj, why should i shell out for petrol money to drive somewhere else?

Dropkick Murphy how about the athletic stadium at Stretford Park? Bit small mind.

A game in South Africa ?

=#FFFFFFI'd rather chop off my penis

gresty road is smaller than the hj

Here is a wild idea...

WHY DON'T WE JUST EXPAND THE STADIUM

East Midlands,,,Come to the West Midlands,,,i would love to see you lot @ Bescot Stadium....

maybe you should write to Andy Gatcliffe & suggest it?

the club are waiting for you to fund it.

I must admit, if the RFL are serious about expansion I do think going out into other communities (not just planting new clubs there, giving them an SL franchise and hoping for the best) is vital.

I don't know how much of this goes on already so I'm not going to pass judgement as it might be a lot for all I know.

As an example though, my ex-girlfriend was from Stamford and I discovered plenty of people there support Leicester RU. Leicester is about 45 minutes away from Stamford but because RU is widely played in schools there, they grow up with the game and Leicester are the nearest professional team so the support develops.

I can't imagine many people from 45 minutes outside Warrington supporting us unless they've either moved from Warrington in the first place or have family who did. Getting the game played in schools across the north in particular (most people I know from Manchester and Liverpool never played RL at school and look how close those cities are to the heartlands - Saints, Widnes and Salford in particular would benefit from increased exposure there) is potentially far more beneficial then creating new franchises or taking games "on the road".

there was a post on here somewhere a while back,some sort of engineering magazine link i think not 100% sure but it said something along the line of warrington expanding by 2014

Wire_Yed's geography A-level paper, yesterday.

To be fair they are not north or south, and i got an A in geography.