A nervous Darcy Lussick says his Toronto Wolfpack's Million Pound Game against the London Broncos will be the most important 80 minutes of his rugby league career.
The fledgling Wolfpack club, which formed in 2016, is aiming to become the fourth and final team promoted to the England-based Super League from the second-tier Championship when they host fifth-placed London Broncos at Lamport Stadium in Toronto on Sunday (Monday AEDT).
With Salford, Leeds and Hull already qualifying from the Super 8s play-offs series, Toronto dropped to fourth on points differential and will now line up in the match worth in excess of PS1 million ($A1.8 million) in funding.
Ex-NRL forward Lussick, who joined the Wolfpack in April, has his heart set on giving Canada an historic Super League berth.
"This is probably the biggest game I have ever played in, 100 per cent," Lussick told AAP in Toronto.
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"There's a hell of a lot at stake; everyone's efforts from this year go into this game and it determines our future.
"I'm a bit nervous but I can't wait."
Former North Queensland Cowboys enforcer Ashton Sims says the Million Pound Game will be among the biggest games he has ever contested.
Sims featured in the Challenge Cup final and Super League grand final in 2016 with Warrington Wolves.
"This is certainly up with those games and the internationals I've played for Fiji," Wolfpack vice-captain Sims said.
"For us to put rugby league on the map in North America, and maybe make the Super League, is something I hold dear to my heart and we're certainly up for the challenge."
Lussick and Sims are among a host of ex-NRL players who now call the Toronto club home - including skipper Josh McCrone, Chase Stanley and Cory Paterson.
The Wolfpack, founded by Australian mining magnate David Argyle, spent the 2018 season in the Championship having secured promotion from third-tier League 1 last year.
They play blocks of home fixtures in Toronto at the 9600-capacity Lamport Stadium, where they finance travel costs for their UK opponents, as well as away games in England.
"This whole experience is totally different to anything I've had before," former St George Dragons and Canberra Raiders playmaker McCrone said.
"It's definitely unique (and) hard to mentally prepare for ... you have to take every individual trip back and forth as it comes.
"It does feel more like home every time we land in Toronto, but it's also hard leaving the family on the other side of the Atlantic (in England)."
