I couldn't agree more re the GB thing, Ideally have a mid season five nations competition and then pick the best for the GB squad at the end of the season for an annual tri nations (maybe play a similar thing with the south sea islanders and pick the best combined team to make it a four nations team).



As for the Catalans I would suspect they create a much bigger income for SL than London do (and shamefully Salford) so I'd certainly not deprive them of a place in SL. There are many fine French players turning out for Catalans who would be lost to French RU if it wasn't for the increased profile of RL created by Catalans. We can't expect the French national team to improve when they get a game here and a game there, them being involved in a proper series like the five nations I mention above would certainly provide them with this.



I would personally like to see the RL more involved with any London team as lately it has been proved that there are many fine RL players waiting to be discovered in the South East and this would never happen without a full time professional team based in the area.



Personally again I'd like to see a fully professional team based in South Wales with significant assistance being provided by the RFL/WRFL as without doubt there are huge numbers of extremely talented rugby players and other athletes throughout Wales That the SL franchise was left in the hands of out and out schysters was a travesty, funny that Bradford potentially get bought out yet the North Wales team were allowed to die at the last minute.



When I talk about assistance being offered to a Welsh team I mean in regards promotion, getting into local schools to identify talent and also initially with the running of the operation to ensure things are being run in a correct and proper manner. Doing this offers RL a chance to expand in a healthy way rather than a hap hazard way as has previously been the case.



I'd also potentially look at a SL franchise in Dublin as for me this would be a gold mine not only in playing talent but also in generating capital. Ireland is obviously not doing so well financially so you'd think that the prospect of a large number of visiting fans every other week throughout the summer months would be enticing to the people of Dublin and also the Government (who I'd think would back any SL franchise for just this reason). The lack of playing talent in Europe I grant you is an issue but one I'd think could be addressed by the powers that be.

What do you mean 'what do you mean'? About the relegation spot thing? I've seen a lot of people comment about how London shouldn't be in this league compared to 'Fax, Leigh, Fev etc. But in all the years of Super League London have never been relegated, and have been granted a license twice. So it's not like they've come bottom every single season and aren't playing to a standard to beat other teams.



If you mean the attendances, then the Salford crowd was much lower than others. Even a soggy Maundy Thursday evening match against Catalans had more spectators. So clearly there are other reasons (as I said before, continual poor performance, summer holidays, Olympics etc) for why this is such a low figure. 2,800 average is probably about fair, and currently I think that's up on the 2011 average attendance. Not the 10k you'd like to see but still.