The world gets smaller
Published on March 28, 2017
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Enjoyed reading all the comments from Marquette's post today about all the places where WA people live. (Where in the world are you?)
It has prompted me to share with you the story of the world's first transatlantic Rugby League team - the Toronto Wolfpack. I won't go into their story here. Check them out on their website www.torontowolfpack.com.
Rugby League is a game played in Australia, New Zealand, France, Papua New Guinea and a number of other "emerging" countries (of which Canada isn't one). But it was started in England in the late 1800s and for 100 years has been played in the UK almost exclusively in the North of England. It has always been a traditionally hard, blood and thunder game usually played in muddy conditions to a knowledgeable audience.
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In recent years the game has tried to capture a bigger audience and Sky TV put on live games each week.
There is a French team in Super League, and another in League 1, but the latest addition to league 2 are the Toronto Wolfpack who will fly over to UK for away games, and (with the support of their sponsors) fly UK teams to Toronto for their home matches.
So far unbeaten in league and cup the Wolfpack have a target of reaching Super League as quickly as possible (2 or 3 years ?), and then consolidating their position.
They want to encourage American Football players who didn't quite make the grade to transfer their attentions to Rugby League. It is a bold idea.
It is, as you may imagine, a little tough for the older Rugby League followers here in UK to imagine Toronto sending a team over here to play one league game, then flying all the way back. But in reality, that is how life is now.
Toronto's first home match is on May 6th against Oxford. The visitors will be travelling 3,502 miles ((5,636 km) to fulfill the fixture, having a few sandwiches and a pint or two, then flying all the way back home again.
So what a small world it has become. I can converse with Kyle and Carson in Canada, William in Indonesia, Gaylene in New Zealand and Marquette in Oklahoma as if they were just down the road from me.
Who knows, in a couple of years time I might be getting on the plane myself to go and see Toronto Wolfpack v Warrington Wolves. It's not cold in Toronto, is it ?
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