The grand plan

[Perth Red]

What has the whole competition achieved in that time ? What sports broadcast deal actually goes down ?

Record crowds, record tv audiences, full time professionalism. Improved stadiums. shall I go on?

rugby union for one that had its English premiership tv contract cut 26 million pound a year.

all sports are going to be impacted as people drop the main ptv operator.

a telling stat:
Speaking at Westminster Media Forum’s The future for sports broadcasting in the UK event this morning, Evans said sports rights spending has slowed in the last five years (from £3.9bn in 2019 to £3.4bn in 2024).

Decline in pay-TV to impact value of UK sports rights

Huw Evans at Oliver and Ohlbaum Associates says rights values could fall due to a lack of major challengers to pay-TV

www.broadcastnow.co.uk

 

[BuffaloRules]

Record crowds, record tv audiences, full time professionalism. Improved stadiums. shall I go on?

rugby union for one that had its English premiership tv contract cut 26 million pound a year.

Record tv audiences, and the broadcaster tells them they are halving their deal ? What’s with that ?

Why are the clubs broke with record crowds?

Having to compare yourself to Yawnion … yowza …

 

[Jonty]

Save your country mate before it's too late

Mate the country is very close to falling if it hasn’t already.

Feels like starmer is the final nail in the coffin.

 

[Perth Red]

Record tv audiences, and the broadcaster tells them they are halving their deal ? What’s with that ?

Why are the clubs broke with record crowds?

Comparing yourself to Yawnion … yowza …

I am talking from the period London entered SL. The recent SL reduction is on par with what is happening in uk with sports rights for many sports. Overall spending has reduced, football rights have increased, that means less and less for other sports.

clubs losses because they keep wanting to spend more than they earn. How a club like St’s who own their stadium and have crowds in top three are losing 4 times as much money as a club like Leigh who rent their ground and have crowds 30% less only the St’s ceo could say!

as for union, there’s only 3 main professional team sports in uk.
1.football
daylight
2. union
3. league

cricket is something to listen to on the radio for old blokes in sheds.

 

[Pippen94]

So you want two clubs that bring virtually zero viewers to tv, how’s that going to help the new tv deal?

Northern viewers have been tapped out, but anyway being bigger than m62 makes it more appealing.

 

[Pippen94]

Mate the country is very close to falling if it hasn’t already.

Feels like starmer is the final nail in the coffin.

A smaller section of society is getting richer & it's not migrants.

 

[Pippen94]

Record crowds, record tv audiences, full time professionalism. Improved stadiums. shall I go on?

rugby union for one that had its English premiership tv contract cut 26 million pound a year.

all sports are going to be impacted as people drop the main ptv operator.

a telling stat:
Speaking at Westminster Media Forum’s The future for sports broadcasting in the UK event this morning, Evans said sports rights spending has slowed in the last five years (from £3.9bn in 2019 to £3.4bn in 2024).

Decline in pay-TV to impact value of UK sports rights

Huw Evans at Oliver and Ohlbaum Associates says rights values could fall due to a lack of major challengers to pay-TV

www.broadcastnow.co.uk

..yet next NRL will be biggest yet

 

[Jonty]

A smaller section of society is getting richer & it's not migrants.

It’s not the British born working classes either.

out of control immigration both legal and illegal isn’t helping the situation.

 

[BuffaloRules]

I am talking from the period London entered SL. The recent SL reduction is on par with what is happening in uk with sports rights for many sports. Overall spending has reduced, football rights have increased, that means less and less for other sports.

clubs losses because they keep wanting to spend more than they earn. How a club like St’s who own their stadium and have crowds in top three are losing 4 times as much money as a club like Leigh who rent their ground and have crowds 30% less only the St’s ceo could say!

as for union, there’s only 3 main professional team sports in uk.
1.football
daylight
2. union
3. league

cricket is something to listen to on the radio for old blokes in sheds.

You might want to add that the govt of the country is much more obsessed with pumping millions into once every 4 year Olympic Sports so they can deflect from all their other social issues ... Rather than putting money into Rugba League

 

[Perth Red]

You might want to add that the govt of the country is much more obsessed with pumping millions into once every 4 year Olympic Sports so they can deflect from all their other social issues ... Rather than putting money into Rugba League

Could say the same for most govt’s. Last year Albo announced $283mill for Olympic sport preparation on top of an annual funding of $112million! We do love those gold medals.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Could say the same for most govt’s. Last year Albo announced $283mill for Olympic sport preparation on top of an annual funding of $112million! We do love those gold medals.

but Australia has also two behemoth football codes

 

[Perth Red]

but Australia has also two behemoth football codes

Both are mere children compared to the Uk's #1 code.

 

[Jonty]

I tell ya… if the NRL were running it, they would be prioritising London over another team in the north …but it should have been done and prioritised like 75 years ago…

And the NRL has the financial clout to do so.

this is why I support the NRL or NRL clubs investing in teams in London, Birmingham and Salford/Manchester etc.

 

[Jonty]

London is one place where NRL will put resources and seek investors. Viewership for league in south is surprisingly high and city has been hosting league games forever. Other cities like Sheffield aren't worth the effort unless billionaire will fund.

London, Birmingham/midlands, Salford/Manchester and Sheffield etc all have potential.

london is obviously the one with the most potential out of all those listed.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Both are mere children compared to the Uk's #1 code.

It’s the fact to me there are two …doesnt happen in too many countries

 

[Perth Red]

It’s the fact to me there are two …doesnt happen in too many countries

Two smallish ones that when combined are still minnows compared to football in uk.
most countries don’t have the geographical split of most popular code like Australia, it’s very unique.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Two smallish ones that when combined are still minnows compared to football in uk.
most countries don’t have the geographical split of most popular code like Australia, it’s very unique.

attendance wise there isn’t actually much difference between the AFL and NRL when combined versus the EPL despite Australia having about 40 percent the population

Also let’s be honest … soccer is the McDonalds of world sport …just as bland and found and dominating the landscape just about everywhere … (outside North America and Oceania) …being the world leaders in that is not much to brag about IMO

 

[Pippen94]

It’s not the British born working classes either.

out of control immigration both legal and illegal isn’t helping the situation.

Leaving Europe was going to fix everything too..

 

[Pippen94]

London, Birmingham/midlands, Salford/Manchester and Sheffield etc all have potential.

london is obviously the one with the most potential out of all those listed.

Manchester should happen. Sheffield have failed. Birmingham won't happen.

 

[Perth Red]

2024
EPl 40.2k avg
NRL/AFL combined attendance 28.8k

haha sure. I find football boring as batsht but there's denying its globally massive and in the UK it is actually a behemoth.