APRIL BELLE
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A NSW/ Qld Cup combined competition wont attract ratings or sponsorship.
I can empathise with the QRL clubs but the impact of the Toyota Cup has on the Q CUP and concur that that competitions standard of footy is significantly better.
However the Toyota Cup - NYC U20s exists because of the sponsorship. The sponsorship is lured and motivated by public appeal namely TV ratings. The reality is the Q Cup or even a NSW/Qld combined cup wont draw the same appeal and therefore wont draw sponsorship.
With some exceptions, in the times that we now live, people wont support and watch sport that isnt at the highest level. The National Soccer league struggles to attract interest yet the World Cup draws so much interest. Similarly the ARUs national competition failed after 2 years.
The exceptions that do attract people to watch inferior standard sport is when the sport or the competition is aged or sex restricted.
For example people will watch world class womens tennis even though it is way inferior to the standard of world class mens tennis. If you put on a regional country satellite mens tennis tournament on television which would played by men of the same standard to World class women players, no one would watch it and it wont attract that same level of sponsorship. Even though the standard is the same.
It is the same for the Toyota Cup. People know the standard isnt high, but they realise this is because it is played by kids and they accept that because of that fact.
Only mad keen rugby league people like me would watch a National Reserve Grade competition and not the numbers that would be required to make it financially sustainable. And it is ratings that talk Money. And without sponsorship funding which clubs could afford the expenses to play in a National competition.
I can empathise with the QRL clubs but the impact of the Toyota Cup has on the Q CUP and concur that that competitions standard of footy is significantly better.
However the Toyota Cup - NYC U20s exists because of the sponsorship. The sponsorship is lured and motivated by public appeal namely TV ratings. The reality is the Q Cup or even a NSW/Qld combined cup wont draw the same appeal and therefore wont draw sponsorship.
With some exceptions, in the times that we now live, people wont support and watch sport that isnt at the highest level. The National Soccer league struggles to attract interest yet the World Cup draws so much interest. Similarly the ARUs national competition failed after 2 years.
The exceptions that do attract people to watch inferior standard sport is when the sport or the competition is aged or sex restricted.
For example people will watch world class womens tennis even though it is way inferior to the standard of world class mens tennis. If you put on a regional country satellite mens tennis tournament on television which would played by men of the same standard to World class women players, no one would watch it and it wont attract that same level of sponsorship. Even though the standard is the same.
It is the same for the Toyota Cup. People know the standard isnt high, but they realise this is because it is played by kids and they accept that because of that fact.
Only mad keen rugby league people like me would watch a National Reserve Grade competition and not the numbers that would be required to make it financially sustainable. And it is ratings that talk Money. And without sponsorship funding which clubs could afford the expenses to play in a National competition.