Cheshire Tiger wrote:Its sad that every time a club has a good win, the debate over their suitability for Super League arises. London Skolars beat Workington recently - second capital franchise anyone???
I think thats a real shame. The Championship/Championship 1 competitions are fantastic and wouldnt it be great if the 1500-2000 averages were doubled in the Championship and more young players were able to develop a full time career in that league?
Im made up we are in Super League but there is more to life in Rugby League than just one division!!!
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Wellsy13 wrote:That's what I thought, but Doncaster is not in Sheffield?
It may have to be if South Yorkshire wants a SL franchise at some point. Very thorny issue and not the one that fans from either club want to debate or even have take place in all honesty. Sometimes though fans concerns are second to the finance of it all.
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Cheshire Tiger wrote:Its sad that every time a club has a good win, the debate over their suitability for Super League arises. London Skolars beat Workington recently - second capital franchise anyone???
I think thats a real shame. The Championship/Championship 1 competitions are fantastic and wouldnt it be great if the 1500-2000 averages were doubled in the Championship and more young players were able to develop a full time career in that league?
Im made up we are in Super League but there is more to life in Rugby League than just one division!!!
No chance - even one clearly doesn't work.
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Moonlight wrote:It may have to be if South Yorkshire wants a SL franchise at some point. Very thorny issue and not the one that fans from either club want to debate or even have take place in all honesty. Sometimes though fans concerns are second to the finance of it all.
Would those be the fans that are the reason we have clubs
No fans , no clubs simple as
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Moonlight wrote:It may have to be if South Yorkshire wants a SL franchise at some point. Very thorny issue and not the one that fans from either club want to debate or even have take place in all honesty. Sometimes though fans concerns are second to the finance of it all.
Why would it? I'm pretty sure that Don Valley is a premier standard stadium that holds over 12k. Sure, it's not that great because it's got a track around it and not covered in places, but it's definitely up to scratch.
If Sheffield merged with Doncaster and played in Doncaster, it's pretty much still just Doncaster. Sheffield's best bet is to go it alone. Same with Doncaster. There's 23 miles between the two places.
rhinofox wrote:Wigan and Hull both have premiership football clubs? They seem to manage ok having an RL team as well
For both these places rugby league was established long before the soccer clubs had any success. Wigan Athletic have only been a league team just over thirty years and Hull City only managed to get into the top division last year. Trying to establish a rugby team in a city already dominated by soccer is a totally different matter.
cherrydevil wrote:Surely a SL club in a major city like Sheffield would offer a lot more to Super League than small Yorkshire places like Castleford or Wakefield. There should obviously be no more Yorkshire teams than there are at the moment so one of these, and probably both, should make way in the next round of franchises.
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