Thanks for that hopefully they can all get back into the game here in time for next season's championship re-start.......



In the end you have to ask why, as Toronto failed to find a single cent of NATV money or bother to try to develop one North American player (save Nqwati whom they used as a "token" North American) Perez went running off to Ottawa to pretend the "Aces" were up next. The launch of Ottawa for the press, introduced an empty shirt, rather than a few beaming rich Canadian directors.



How did these lads fall for it? didn't they have canny agents? Why did Rimmer fall for it?? Whatever happened to proof of funds let alone proof of directors??









I'm quite sure that Perez's tactic to stop Toronto being thrown out was to line a second club up thus making it a much bigger deal for Superleague to throw them both out. Two NA clubs chucked out would have been a bigger headline, and bigger bad publicity for the game.



Elstone was of course smart enough to "defer" Ottawa until 2022 to counter the tactic, but if anyone wants "proof" (which would be ironic in the fantasy world of NA expansion) that Ottawa are dead meat read the less headline grabbing analysis of the value of North America to Superleague. The value was calculated as erm Zero..........



For me the bottom line was it was all phoney nonsense and what I found pleasing was that after Elstone did the deed it was all pretty much forgotten about.....

I think you'll find Elstone has nothing to do with clubs in League 1,or The Championship.His remit is Super League having been brought into the sport by dysfunctional,M62 Super League clubs who benefited from money they obtained after RFLofficials negotiated for it.

Surely you recall Elstone allowing Toronto Wolfpack into Super League but then electing to blame the RFL for allowing the club into the sport - what with your obsession on all things Canadian.

It's not a hint and Elstone was right in there plunging in the knife....................



[i"Super League executive chairman Elstone said clubs were concerned by “the aggressive revenue targets on which the financial forecasts are based” and an independent committee concluded that a Canadian team would not be beneficial to the league"



"Elstone said: “The board accepts that the decision to reject Toronto Wolfpack’s application will divide the game’s fans but, on the evidence presented to us, it would not be right for the development of the competition for Super League to accommodate a team in Canada in 2021.[/i



Maybe by 2022 a Canadian team will be beneficial to the league.

How I dunno





Anyone

There's not going to be a next time as Elstone (above) nicely shut the door to any future Perez invention...........



We are better off discussing which English clubs may get the door shut on them 2022 as SKY monies dry up for many......

Latest: "The business group that runs Lansdowne Park's commercial sector and owns the sports teams that play there may not survive without some immediate help from the city, according to a report released late Wednesday.



The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the various revenue streams of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG). Restaurants struggle to host diners, and "for lease" signs hang at stores in the commercial area it runs. Gathering limits mean the teams it owns — the Redblacks, Ottawa 67's, Ottawa BlackJacks and the Ottawa Aces — can't sell tickets to fans. No concerts or other events can be held at TD Stadium until next year."



The "City" have apparently given that help, but the most interesting thing is the "sell tickets"



OSEG can't be opening the gates for fans to walk in for nothing nor giving away freeby tickets if Ottawa return. They are deep in debt, whilst Argyle was deep in $$Billions.



Running costs for TWP were about £30,000,000 in their three and a bit years in the game here. That's a hell of a lot of tickets for OSEG to sell.......