The Harlequins game is going to be in South Wales, 100% certain.

London got RFL help on more than one occasion and any new team that is started to expand the game will get the same.



They have found a new backer and a ground which is one of the better ones in Super League. A very good potential fan base yes they have been pulled out of the proverbial but at least give them to the middle of next season to prove themselves under the new management. Then if they have not improved then complain to the RFL to stop them getting a new franchise.

What difference does travel time make, FFS?



How do you think football or yawnion fans get on? They travel up and down the country to get to away matches on a regular basis, so why is it such a big problem when we have to do it once in a blue moon?



Get a grip.

Yeah but its not once in a blue moon. Its every home game. Wigan should play more games in Gloucestershire.

I think it may make a difference if you work 60+ hours a week, have a couple of kids to look after etc. Oh, and then the cost is going to be greater. What percentage of home crowds of Union/Football travel to the 4/5 hour distant matches BTW?



With your view we may as well have a South African team in the SL too, sure it takes a while to get there but there really isn't an issue is there?

Utterly stupid statement.

They've been reprimanded for that and lost a lot of their senior players which is a far greater punishment than anybody else in rugby league has ever been given who have cheated the rules, Wigan included.







Any club in any sport can suffer, you only need to look at Portsmouth FC and Crystal Palace to see that. Just because the business side of things AFTER the licence was awarded has struggled doesn't mean their on the field achievements should not be rewarded.







After everything that has happened, the move from South Wales and the poor first season I am inclined to agree that the Crusaders have been fast tracked into Super League without proper consideration as to how they will cope but they have two years to prove that is now behind them and to move forward - to right them off at every opportunity is detrimental to them and to the sport on the whole IMO.

We're obviously dealing with a flatcapper, here. No neeeeeeeeed to go further that th'M62 lad. It's allus bin like that, why change it?



Yes, I do 60+ hours a week, I have a kid and I have to pay to attend games too. Same as several thousand others.



4/5 hour travel time to matches in other sports? Let me think. A damn sight more than us RL lot, who have it easy.







Don't be silly.

Yes a bit like the one where nobody cares about travel, and indeed yours. It's not rocket surgery to figure out that travel does matter.

Good for you that you can fit it in, I'm pleased for you. If travel isn't an issue why are there more home fans than away fans? There are a large number of fans that don't travel to away games, why could that be?



Just because I made a statement showing long distance travel as option when you said, "What difference does travel time make, FFS?" does not make my point silly. How about if we play them in Neath on a Friday night at 7:30pm, do you think anyone would complain about travel time or would everyone be happy with taking the time off work, watching the game and then getting home in the early hours?

tbh its the bradford fans i feel sorry for.

its a tidy trek for them to south wales.



have the RL thought this through?

why not quins and CATS........cats fans are used to flying over here, and wales is closer.

they do still have an airport in cardiff ???

I know where you're coming from with that point about Catalans and quins, but they'd still want a game in south wales against a team that sends a big following, for gate money obviously. I mean some of the new fans in wrexham might decide not to go down so the "away" team has to help make up the numbers. Bradford are one of those teams that send big followings.



Catalans have announced that the games against Wigan, Leeds, Warrington and Bradford are to be played in a bigger stadium because they'll be the biggest crowds, so sending a crusaders game to south wales they'd really want one of the matches to be against one of those 4 teams to get a decent(ish) crowd. Maybe Warrington would have been a better option than bradford though, as they're closer.