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It isn't the lack of quality keeping the league to 12, its the thought of spreading the cash 14 ways.

ian.birchall wrote:It isn't the lack of quality keeping the league to 12, its the thought of spreading the cash 14 ways.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s twelve or twenty if there isn’t any money to share. The last contract with Sky was for £200 million and the game has deteriorated further since then. I don’t believe the next contract will attract any more than that - probably less. Unless the game is made more attractive to sponsors, investors, advertisers and most importantly broadcasters, then the game will contract even further possibly back to the days of part-time.

AncientWarrior wrote:

ian.birchall wrote:It isn't the lack of quality keeping the league to 12, its the thought of spreading the cash 14 ways.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s twelve or twenty if there isn’t any money to share. The last contract with Sky was for £200 million and the game has deteriorated further since then. I don’t believe the next contract will attract any more than that - probably less. Unless the game is made more attractive to sponsors, investors, advertisers and most importantly broadcasters, then the game will contract even further possibly back to the days of part-time.

Spot on.

ian.birchall wrote:It isn't the lack of quality keeping the league to 12, its the thought of spreading the cash 14 ways.

read some of the interviews with the superleague owners, they want 14 teams as that would give them the ideal number of matches and no need for the loop fixtures butthe quality isnt there.
all the super 8s is doing is forcing championship teams to risk everything to get into that middle 8s and then if the fail like leigh did risk collapsing. Slowly building up the standard is the way and with auto 1 up 1 down its more stable than potentialy 4 clubs swapping around.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... ious-plans

A big mistake to involve them imo. No experience of team sport, no understanding of the community base of RL, and they can walk away if their ideas fail.

At best, let them market the Challenge Cup and negotiate TV deal for it, before any involvement with SL and salary cap etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... ious-plans

A big mistake to involve them imo. No experience of team sport, no understanding of the community base of RL, and they can walk away if their ideas fail.

At best, let them market the Challenge Cup and negotiate TV deal for it, before any involvement with SL and salary cap etc.

morley pie eater wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... ious-plans

A big mistake to involve them imo. No experience of team sport, no understanding of the community base of RL, and they can walk away if their ideas fail.

At best, let them market the Challenge Cup and negotiate TV deal for it, before any involvement with SL and salary cap etc.

The clowns who are running our game at the moment have no idea of team sport, no idea of marketing, no idea how to improve attendances, no idea how to revitalise the Challenge cup and are allowing the game to die so Hearn cant do any worse.

It’ll end in tears

fozzieskem wrote:It’ll end in tears

It will if nothing is done

Warrior Gilfedder wrote:

fozzieskem wrote:It’ll end in tears

It will if nothing is done

Daddy Hearn himself has he likes to buy the sports who takes an interest in,there’s no chance of that happening in SL you 12 chairman with their own vested interests,it’ll come to nothing or at best make no difference in the ling term.

But this Hearn is god movement is faintly ridiculous as every time he’s tried a team game it isn’t as successful as snooker or darts.

Clearly something needs to be done but I doubt it’ll work with these two.