Throwback Thursday: What Super League should look like
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 12:25 pm
It’s nearly 24 years since British rugby league took a £75m deal from Sky’s Rupert Murdoch to launch a summer European Super League.
The idea was for Super League to consist of a number of merged clubs, stand alone clubs and then new clubs in Paris and Toulouse, with a Cardiff side playing in the First Division.
The top four Super League clubs would then play-off against their Australian counterparts, though of course the Super League war in Australia soon put paid to that idea.
In what may sound like a familiar tale, Leeds were initially opposed to the summer switch but eventually agreed at a vote of club chairmen.
https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/th ... look-like/
The idea was for Super League to consist of a number of merged clubs, stand alone clubs and then new clubs in Paris and Toulouse, with a Cardiff side playing in the First Division.
The top four Super League clubs would then play-off against their Australian counterparts, though of course the Super League war in Australia soon put paid to that idea.
In what may sound like a familiar tale, Leeds were initially opposed to the summer switch but eventually agreed at a vote of club chairmen.
https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/th ... look-like/