An investment in a traditional financial sense is one you make with the intention of - at some point - being able to take out more money than you put in.



I don't think those kinds of investor are going to touch professional sport with a barge pole.



Your typical professional sport investor sees their "return" as being their particular favourite club being more successful, or just staying in business. They're still investors, just ones who are resigned to the fact that the money they invest isn't coming back.

Featherstone bring more to RL in a day than London has managed in it's entirety - nobody want's you other than the tiny minority who frequent this site. Most fans on the terraces want Fev and Fax back, but nobody listens.



I wish London would finally just go and your type would go with it.

Say what you mean.

totally agree with Vasty but I'm a whippet breeding northerner with my RLfans page set-up to Flat cap mode !

The unfortunate fact is that if Fax and Fev had the fans on the terraces, they would be in SL and they would be welcome.

What if they had an extremely wealthy backer like London do, because they sure as hell don’t have the fans either.

Watching Fev on BBC play a "massive" CC game against Wigan on a sh*tty pitch in a 1940's run down ground was a complete embarrassment to the game.



Lets move on- Fev are the past. Lets move to areas where there is money and sell the game-The M62 is saturated with small town RL teams who have no potential.



You don't get it that SL cant get a sponsor because the game is based in pit villages running across the Pennines. There is no "sell"

Remind me again..... where will the nomads be playing next year in front of their massive crowds you soft southern nancy?

Back in the old Stones Bitter days, Fax used to be pretty well supported although, their last visit to the top flight did see some truly woeful crowds, mind you this was matched by equally poor results on the field.

IF they could muster some success then Fax in particular could achieve 8000 +, the question is how could they compete on the field of play ?

If someone genuinely owes you money and you have to take them to court, they will be responsible for any costs incurred. That's how it works when I take my bad debt to the solicitors (i'm self employed).

There's "no sell"





There are no customers you fool.



No one bar a few thousand hardy souls (mostly exiled northerners) want a RL team in London - they don't care they never have and they never will.



The M62 corridor has a bigger population than many countries including Scotland and Wales and is yet to be fully exploited. If you had any real thought pattern you'd understand this.



Most people in the north are emotionally secure enough not to give a stuff what happens in London or what Londoners think and are happy with the game as it is even if it doesn't match Soccer or RU for exposure or cash. So what, you play to your strength and give the fans the best you can. Many sports do quite nicely without national coverage, a blue chip sponsor or a team in London.



We are the lucky ones, we have TGG and if they can't see that the tuff - they should be begging us and they are not so sod them.



Be proud, be northern and admire the likes of Featherstone which is little more than a street but has created a pro RL club with a MODERN (because you clearly never watched the game) STADIUM.



London on the other hand with their pitiful crowds v population, borrowed stadium and less than brilliant playing record remain an embarrassment to the game of RL.

Where are all these pit villages Wire Quin?

Rather out of date aren't you?

Can't remember last time I saw a bloke in a flat cap with a whippet either.

I remember once hosting a load southern businessmen who expected to see all muckstacks and grime.

They were amazed at how much beautiful open countryside there was in West Yorkshire.

And that was in the days of pits.