Toronto are set to give a debut to former gridiron footballer Joe Eichner as they reveal a plan to unearth talent in China.
Eichner, who has played for the United States national team, will become the first man from the Wolfpack's Last-Tackle series of trials to play for the Kingstone Press League 1 newcomers when Coventry visit the Lamport Stadium on June 3.
The trials were held last summer in five cities throughout north America and Jamaica and Toronto owner David Argyle is now setting his sights further afield.
"David is keen to go to China and hold trials there," said Martin Vickers, the Wolfpack's UK commercial director at the global premiere of "Last Tackle - Inside the Toronto Wolfpack" which was beamed into 50 million households in the US earlier this week.
Argyle, an Australian mining magnate, played rugby union in China before turning his focus to league.
Eichner, who emerged from trials in Tampa, will go into a team sitting top of the league following their 70-2 rout of second-placed Barrow at the Lamport Stadium in Toronto on Saturday night.
"It's a great achievement for Joe," said Wolfpack director Adam Fogerty, the former Halifax and St Helens forward who is now a full-time actor.
"He's a great lad who has stuck at it and hopefully he will get his break."
Saturday's match was watched by a crowd of 7,144, which followed one of 6,281 for the Canadian club's opening home fixture against Oxford earlier this month.
"We're really encouraged by the turn-outs," Vickers said. "We're confident that by summer we'll be getting crowds of 9,000 and 10,000."
The full-time Wolfpack team are averaging 60 points a game so far but Fogerty does not believe the one-sided nature of the games will deter the Canadian fans.
"They know there's three divisions and we've started at the bottom," Fogerty said. "We're not pulling the wool over their eyes.
"They're getting used to a new game, it's a day out and they're making an event of it. We'd like the games to be closer but we had to buy a team that's ready for the Championship, otherwise come the end of the year we'd have to buy a new team.
"We wanted lads that could hold their own in the Championship and hopefully get us into Super League."
