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Love to see the teams from Cumbria to sort it out between themselves and unite to hopefully in the future get into SL.

jaws1 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:03 am Love to see the teams from Cumbria to sort it out between themselves and unite to hopefully in the future get into SL.

Theres more chance of Wigan and Saints merging than Whitehaven and Workington , Carlisle is union land.

Barrow is the place, population of around 60k (Cas only has 40k) then you have another 60k for the surrounding areas (Millom, Dalton, Askam, Ulverston, Kendal), There's plenty of spare land knocking around for a shiny new stadium, The club also has a great 145 year history, There's also a lot of RL history in the area, Oldest amateur club in the world, GB legends Willie Horne, Phil Jackson and Jimmy Lewthwaite, Awesome pies, Award winning tattooist (Dave Ashton at All Style Tattoos) etc, If only Dr Koukash could pump his money into them while keeping his gob shut

I've said for years that Penrith would be the place to start a franchise in Cumbria.
Its easy to get to from the NW and from Yorkshire , it would be 'neutral' for all current Cumbrian RL fans, it's a big town in its own right, and the potential 'twinning' potential with the Panthers could be great publicity/ loan deals etc..

Can't see that it's a worse location than London, Paris, Cardiff, or any other failed attempts...

Shevvylad wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 7:25 pm I've said for years that Penrith would be the place to start a franchise in Cumbria.
Its easy to get to from the NW and from Yorkshire , it would be 'neutral' for all current Cumbrian RL fans, it's a big town in its own right, and the potential 'twinning' potential with the Panthers could be great publicity/ loan deals etc..

Can't see that it's a worse location than London, Paris, Cardiff, or any other failed attempts...

Penrith has a population of less than 16,000 and is over 40 miles from Whitehaven and Workington, 110 miles from Leeds and over 150 from Hull (300 mile round trip).

They do have a Morrisons though.

..which means it's closer to civilisation than Whitehaven or Workington...and Barrow for that matter.

It's also closer to RL heartland than London, Paris etc which was my basic point.

Shevvylad wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:00 pm ..which means it's closer to civilisation than Whitehaven or Workington...and Barrow for that matter.

It's also closer to RL heartland than London, Paris etc which was my basic point.

Barrow is one mile closer to Wigan than Penrith, Penrith is union country, The End

medlocke wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:47 pm

Shevvylad wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:00 pm ..which means it's closer to civilisation than Whitehaven or Workington...and Barrow for that matter.

It's also closer to RL heartland than London, Paris etc which was my basic point.

Barrow is one mile closer to Wigan than Penrith, Penrith is union country, The End

And the wider population of a small village ! Which is also a similar problem in Whitehaven and Workington's cases. Mainly sheep country !!

medlocke wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:47 pm

Shevvylad wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:00 pm ..which means it's closer to civilisation than Whitehaven or Workington...and Barrow for that matter.

It's also closer to RL heartland than London, Paris etc which was my basic point.

Barrow is one mile closer to Wigan than Penrith, Penrith is union country, The End

The end? Lol..who the hell do you think you are???

The point I was making is that Penrith, whilst not an existing RL base, makes more sense, in my OPINION...than South Wales, London, Toronto or any of the other pointless experiments that have been tried just to try to sell SKY subscriptions....

Apologies if I upset your sense of cast iron righteousness.....

Shevvylad wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 1:04 pm

medlocke wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:47 pm

Shevvylad wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:00 pm ..which means it's closer to civilisation than Whitehaven or Workington...and Barrow for that matter.

It's also closer to RL heartland than London, Paris etc which was my basic point.

Barrow is one mile closer to Wigan than Penrith, Penrith is union country, The End

The end? Lol..who the hell do you think you are???

The point I was making is that Penrith, whilst not an existing RL base, makes more sense, in my OPINION...than South Wales, London, Toronto or any of the other pointless experiments that have been tried just to try to sell SKY subscriptions....

Apologies if I upset your sense of cast iron righteousness.....

Cheers, It means a lot

Apart from all of that, how do you make a Super League club out of a population of 15,000 odd - it's roughly the same size as Standish ?