Plans are at an advanced stage for a New York based team to follow in the footsteps of Toronto and play in the English league. It is reported that substantial funds have already been found and they would pay for all travelling costs of visiting teams. There are also reports of a second Canadian club in the offing. Is this the sort of expansion our game sorely needs and shouldn't we be giving every encouragement to help it take off by playing some Superleague matches over there instead of the ludicrous idea of playing one in Australia where the game needs no help of promotion.

Well, it would be one way to start spreading the news.

Boston.

Location or winger?

Guardian article today says the location would be New York:
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I remember Perez hinting in an interview that 2 more teams were in the pipeline and one of them was in Boston.

Wonder who that will be?

Badum tish!

Why not Jacksonville before any others seeing as they are already established

Isn't there already a team, the White Plains Wombats? Are they looking to push cash into that team or create a new one, based more where the current NYC sports teams are based?

I wouldn't get too excited just yet. The guy bankrolling Toronto has always said he wants a north American (continent) league. So I'd see this as a speculative expansion, using SL & the NRL as names to bolster interest, then in a few (5 ?) years time break away & create a new league. Not sure how that would work in the long term, with the established "sports" having such a stronghold in (if not strangle-hold on) the broadcast media.

New York City vs Wigan Warriors

What an away game that would be!

You would think that the RFL would look to schedule Superleague clubs away games on consecutive weekends v New York and Toronto, but it's the RFL we're talking about so it probably won't happen.