The Virtual Terrace • Re: Toronto v Toulouse as part of Magic weekend?
luke ShipleyRed wrote:
You're wrong<SNIP>What you need is heartland clubs as well as expansion clubs, together making a go of it. With it being equal footing and rules for both.
Keighley got 5 gates over 5k in a decade.....I'd take New York, London, Paris, Munich.......
over a pit village any day of the week, especially one that's a 9 iron away from Bradford and Leeds..........we often wonder why we're ignored as a northern pastime and the stance that keighley were better for the game than the Broncos is exactly why....there are no better examples of NIMBY'S than Yorkshire folk in relation to RL.......if the game is the "life blood" of the region then it would be thriving at amateur level....it is't....chasing a 1.8 million cheque to then run a side that will cost 4 million and hope the 2.2 million will come from fans isn't a viable business plan....and Cougarmania wouldn't deliver half the needed funds......so you'd have another bottom tier side struggling to stay up and playing out of a shytehole ground......and wonder why the rest of the country couldn't give a flying one.
Toronto are on shaky ground year 2.....if they don't buy their way to SL in 2018 then the wheels may well come off completely, but I'd have them all day every day over "traditional" clubs with not a pot to pee in.....because Keighley failing isn't news, but Toronto is!
Statistics: Posted by Call Me God — Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:07 pm