Huddersfield Giants - claretandgold.co.uk • Re: Toronto Wolfpack defies logic

You would think that a Transatlantic team would crumble under the constant flying between Canada and the UK???

But in the WP case they played all their away matches more or less at the start of the season and all their home matches at the end of the season.

So in actual fact only the part time UK teams have faced the Transatlantic journies and associated Visa problems that accepting the WP into a Northern England based sport brings with it.

For all my many pet hates about the Catalans their away record has suffered over the years with bi-weekly round trips from Perpignan, but rightly so if they want to be in the League but it appears that Toronto haven’t faced the same challenges. After all a lot of their players are England based then jet off to Canada.

Now after winning the Championship with an in built advantage of the fixtures being crooked in their favour what happens in the middle 8’s. Surely the league won’t allow them to play 4 straight in Canada followed by 3 straight in the UK when two Superleague Teams and two championship teams for the second time face long flights the week after and week before a home match back in the UK?

This would again give them a massive advantage over their opponents. It will be interesting to see what the RFL do about scheduling the fixtures for the middle 8’s.

If they get promoted will they be allowed to carry this fixture pattern into the Superleague? It would amaze me if the Superleague chairman allow this as its tantamount to the Turkey’s voting to keep Xmas.

I would have no problem in Huddersfield getting relegated and replaced by Leigh, Halifax, Featherstone or even Toulouse but not a team without Canadians because how’s that expansion espeicially with the fixture pattern they have been allowed to adapt.