[u2015[/u:

London reaches and wins middle 8 and is promoted to Super League

Newcastle wins League 1 and is promoted to the Championship



[u2016[/u:

Newcastle wins middle 8 and is promoted to Super League

Toulouse wins League 1 and is promoted to the Championship



[u2017[/u:

Toulouse wins the Championship and is promoted to Super League

North Wales wins League 1 and ins promoted to the Championship



I am not predicting that these outcomes will occur, but rather wishing that they do occur for the good of the game.



If these outcomes occurred it could mean that in 2018 Super League would include the non-M62 clubs London, Newcastle and Toulouse, as well as Catalans.

It would be a promoters dream and finally result in better sponsorship deals for Super League, greater public interest in Super League, a better TV deal, and a strengthening of the game in France.

We get it. You like expansion clubs. Do you really need to keep making this point?

Until now nobody has drawn up the optimum feasible promotion scenarios for expansion of the game.



My posting has, for the first time in recorded history, specified the fastest way forward, which every genuine expansionist should be hoping for.

"for the first time in recorded history"

prove it

and the fastest way for me to become a millionaire is for me to win the eurolottery tomorrow. Neither of these outcomes will happen though

I don't think that you are being optimistic enough.



When RU collapses next season and League finally rules the world, we can all ream of A Leicester Tigers v Catalan Dragons Grand Final

and England ruling the world of International rugby



What an awful thread

I have scoured newspapers and magazines from around the world ever since the RFL introduced promotion and relegation. In no publication couldI find any mention of feasible expansion scenarios. That is why I undertook the effort to make the historically pathbreaking analysis that I have spelled out in my original post.

Please get a job ASAP Jean

Jeanette, your response is eagerly awaited in the 'Tigers sign Springer' thread, please do grace us with your presence.

You could have just suggested franchising/licensing instead, then you could do all that for 2016.......

Is it those clubs specifically? As a more likely outcome for clubs that aren't on the M62 would be:



"[u2015[/u:

Sheffield reaches and wins middle 8 and is promoted to Super League

Keighley wins League 1 and is promoted to the Championship



My mate Gary Capdouze who runs UK Donner and Pizza Express in Holmewood has an Auntie that lives in Drighlington called Jean it's not you is it?

Why would it be a positive to promote expansion clubs who have clearly not laid the foundations for success in the top division?



I'd like to see all these clubs succeed, but at an organic and sustainable rate that would hopefully see them in the top division with the next 20 years.



There are no quick answers to expansion. Careful planning, much effort, money and determination are required. Even then, the community has to choose to back the club.

You are unlikely to get a response unless you use the full name, which in this case is Jeanette Capdouze.

None of the clubs mentioned have their own stadia, nor any reliable infasrtucture (ie provided by a local authority or landlord specifically for their use), therefore, just like London when we were jerrymandered into the top flight, foundations on quicksand!