Ottowa aces have pulled out of the 2021 season now.Doubt we will see them at all.
Ottowa aces have pulled out of the 2021 season now.Doubt we will see them at all.
You beat me to it mate!
What happens to the players they've signed, as they're (prob) contracted? Are they free agents, or could Ottowa demand a fee if they penned a deal elsewhere?
Spelly.
An absolute farce from beginning to end. How anybody ever thought it was going to end any other way is beyond me. Never sustainable in the slightest, and the creation of more teams would just add to that - all teams that would need to get players from clubs in the UK.
The pipe dream of hypothetical sponsors and broadcast deals with no evidence still being peddled by some.
Sympathise with Toronto supporters - but at end of the day, they should never have been allowed to start. Nigel Wood got all gooey eyed over someone with cash. No substance or strategy to having them.
Mind you, the way Super League is run is a crunchie show. Baffling anybody thinks that having Toronto in can actually work when you're still churning games out at Castleford and Wakefield in the "elite" comp.
Ottowa aces have pulled out of the 2021 season now.Doubt we will see them at all.
You beat me to it mate! What happens to the players they’ve signed, as they’re (prob) contracted? Are they free agents, or could Ottowa demand a fee if they penned a deal elsewhere? Spelly.
Of course they're free agents (unless in the most unlikely scenario that Ottowa are still paying them when they now don't exist) then they can go where they want, even though their options will be severely limited.
Unfortunately with Covid likely to be ongoing for some time this might be an Armageddon type moment for RL in this country and will have to be built up from the very bottom again with whatever is left
The team 'promoted' to SL will sign up a couple I would think as well as Toronto ex players.Whoever that club may be won't have much time though to assemble a competitive squad seeing as we are in to November and the application process is at a very early stage.But the SL clubs know this.
Quite how a club could function in our league when their climate wipes out so much of the saeson is such a simple fact that it should have ended the discussion.
Yeah I mean there is some sympathy to be had with the Covid situation, but there is a reason why most major sports leagues aren't transcontinental!
Returning to a unified management should be a welcome change, provided the manager is competent!
The process has to be consolidation of what we have then expansion into the UK. There is support in the likes of Newcastle and we need to make the game attractive to those who appreciate the handling game. Played properly RL is one of the most exciting games there is, but played badly it can be a bore.
I notice that the flop-on tackle has returned to our game with refs offering no punishment. This slows the game down and has to go. The Aussie refs seem to manage it most of the time!
See McDermott is slating RFL for not financially supporting the TWP players who had not been paid for seven months and claiming that the RFL had made no contact with any of the players. I thought that the RFL had indicated that they had contacted the players and offered some support. He fails to mention the responsibility of the club's current management- who could have given those players who had not found another club a proportion of their pay as a gesture, rather than use those players as a bargaining chip in their failed bid - and previous management. Maybe the players' union had a role to play too.
Is it the fault of the RFL that the Canadian Government did not have a similar furlough scheme to the UK scheme? Who came forward to pay the Widnes players when we went into Administration? Maybe the TWP supporters could have emulated the Widnes fans and raised money to pay players.
He is also slating the RFL/SL for kicking TWP out and sees it as a lost opportunity, but fails to spell out exactly what benefits a trans-Atlantic league has for RL in the UK.
McDermott is a disgrace to RL with his disparaging comments about "small town clubs in the north of England" who are the grass roots of rugby league and will continue to play a key role in RL long after TWP have been forgotten.