Ottawa UK Location

[The Daddy]

Apparently the new UK location where the Ottawa Aces are to be based will be announced this evening around 6pm 

[paulwalker71]

If it's Odsal I would stay away from this forum for a few hours, it won't be pretty lol

(I've no inside info and I don't want it to be Odsal )

[The Daddy]

If it's some random place like Harrogate god help us 

[Gav Wilson]

2 minutes ago, The Daddy said:

If it's some random place like Harrogate god help us 

Why is that random?

[Pigeon Lofter]

Will this club still be called Ottawa Aces, even if they are based in NW England??

[The Daddy]

7 minutes ago, Gav Wilson said:

Why is that random?

I know it's in your backyard and you wouldn't mind having another North Yorkshire team but it's a small borough of 160,000. Yes it is a nice quaint place but we need a big city to take RL to the masses

[The Daddy]

6 minutes ago, Pigeon Lofter said:

Will this club still be called Ottawa Aces, even if they are based in NW England??

No

[DavidM]

Put it in Birmingham and have a big derby with Coventry 

[northamptoncougar]

4 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Put it in Birmingham and have a big derby with Coventry 

not happening

[Gav Wilson]

1 minute ago, The Daddy said:

I know it's in your backyard and you wouldn't mind having another North Yorkshire team but it's a small borough of 160,000. Yes it is a nice quaint place but we need a big city to take RL to the masses

It's an affluent town, with football and rugby union clubs playing at a reasonable level and in reasonable facilities, and it's on the doorstep of the 'heartlands' but in a new area. If the people backing the club have a reasonable budget and business plan, I'm sure they could be a perfectly reasonable addition to League 1. Where's the harm in that? 

#Reasonable 

[The Daddy]

4 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Put it in Birmingham and have a big derby with Coventry 

That would be my preferred choice 

[RigbyLuger]

1 minute ago, Gav Wilson said:

If the people backing the club have a reasonable budget and business plan, I'm sure they could be a perfectly reasonable addition to League 1. Where's the harm in that? 

#Reasonable 

Isn't it Perez, a man who's mouth writes cheques his backers can't pay?

[Gav Wilson]

2 minutes ago, RigbyLuger said:

Isn't it Perez, a man who's mouth writes cheques his backers can't pay?

I guess we'll soon find out... *shrugs* 

[gingerjon]

Yes, this is a very serious and real team and it is important we know what new twitter account to follow as they build to not completing the 2022 season.

[Simon Hall]

21 minutes ago, Gav Wilson said:

It's an affluent town, with football and rugby union clubs playing at a reasonable level and in reasonable facilities, and it's on the doorstep of the 'heartlands' but in a new area. If the people backing the club have a reasonable budget and business plan, I'm sure they could be a perfectly reasonable addition to League 1. Where's the harm in that? 

#Reasonable 

...and it's got a train station.

I'd go to 'arrygut when York aren't playing that's for sure. 

[Eddie]

30 minutes ago, The Daddy said:

I know it's in your backyard and you wouldn't mind having another North Yorkshire team but it's a small borough of 160,000. Yes it is a nice quaint place but we need a big city to take RL to the masses

If RL cracked Harrogate it would be the biggest advancement in this country for 125 years, other than Cumbria. 

[Eddie]

29 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Put it in Birmingham and have a big derby with Coventry 

Where would they play and who would put the money in? Also it wouldn’t be a big derby. 

[Simon Hall]

Looks like it's going to be in Cornwall. Won't be going when York aren't playing now.

[Gav Wilson]

 

[Gav Wilson]

[Griff]

1 minute ago, Gav Wilson said:

 

Who's their derby match ?

[Damien]

Interesting choice:

Cornwall will have a professional rugby league team in League One from 2022 after the owners of the shelved Ottawa Aces operation opted to set up the new venture in the south west.

Cornwall Rugby League Football Club will base themselves at Penryn's Memorial Ground.

They have full membership of the Rugby Football League, having taken on Hemel Stags' licence with the governing body.

"It's a rugby hotbed," founder Eric Perez told BBC Sport.

"Cornwall offers the best of all possibilities. Most athletes play rugby there. It's a unique area and its own region. We are the only professional sport operating in the summer down here, so we have that exclusivity.

"From Newcastle and the Cumbrian teams, all the way down to Cornwall. For the first time in 126 years, rugby league is a truly national sport."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/59120702

[Gav Wilson]

[RugbyLeagueGeek]

This is a wind up innit? Surely? 

[DavidM]

6 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Where would they play and who would put the money in? Also it wouldn’t be a big derby. 

No idea , I put literally zero thought into it