Pack split on Wolf decision

SUPER LEAGUE clubs will today thrash out three key issues for the sport – including the future of Toronto Wolfpack.

The Canadian club’s prospective new owner Carlo Livolsi will put his case to the other 11 competition members at a virtual meeting that could run into tomorrow because of today’s Salford v Catalans game.

The clubs are e a also so set to decide whether her to finish the

2020 regular season early and extend the play- offs – and discuss the latest on the sport’s crucial next TV deal once the current one expires at the end of next year.

But it is the destiny of the Wolfpack that will focus attention most, with other owners understood to be split on the divisive club’s future.

Toronto pulled out of this year’s competition in July on the eve of the season restart, citing financial problems with debts of around £ 1m, having failed to pay players, coaches and staff for several months.

But Canadian entrepreneur and investor Livolsi ( below) has pledged to honour those payments and underwrite future losses.

When they come to vote on the issue, the 11 clubs will be joined by both Super League and the RFL, with Toronto needing seven votes to gain readmission.

The Wolfpack hav have been suppo supported by players’ union the GMB.

Head rep and former Great Britain star Garreth Carvell said:

“We cannot sit back and watch the destruction of a club when a deal is on the table that saves them, enhances the game and pays those families what they are owed.”