Canada-Based Team Seek To Join Championship One

The Rugby Football League has received an application from Rugby League Canada to enter a team based in Toronto into the Kingstone Press League One competition from the 2016 season. Their proposal, which includes an offer to sponsor the competition as a whole, was put forward at a meeting of Championship clubs in Leeds last Wednesday. Rugby League Canada chairman Eric Perez told the League Express: "We are proposing to create the first transcontinental sports team – the first North American side in a European league. It will open up markets that were unthinkable recently. "For the last four ye…