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Good for toulose

If they do go to 14 based on criteria then toulose Bradford are a lock and York / London the other spot

Article says giants are a chance of dropping out (unlikely)

Given Ken Davy hates french clubs that would be beautiful
 
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Wb1234 said:

Good for toulose

If they do go to 14 based on criteria then toulose Bradford are a lock and York / London the other spot

Article says giants are a chance of dropping out (unlikely)

Given Ken Davy hates french clubs that would be beautiful
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Let's hope so! Hopefully we can see a buy in from the NRL at some level to sustain this for at least a decade. It'll need cash to sustain that expansion.
I think it's good timing on the back of an ashes tour.
 
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Their central grant has fallen from 2 million quid to 1.2 million

Around the same time the nrl grant has gone from around 3 to five million to 17 to 20 million aud

Shows the challenges the English game faces
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No sht sherlock! Not like the EPL isnt known about. English Union has followed the same trajectory but its hit their clubs even harder.
 
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Perth Red said:
No sht sherlock! Not like the EPL isnt known about. English Union has followed the same trajectory but its hit their clubs even harder.
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Unions tv deal didn’t go down in half

And super league was doing ok previously when premier league was still a thing

If not Pvl then someone like Richard Lewis or even Eric Perez running it is what’s needed
 
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Wb1234 said:
Unions tv deal didn’t go down in half

And super league was doing ok previously when premier league was still a thing

If not Pvl then someone like Richard Lewis or even Eric Perez running it is what’s needed
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Neither has SL's.
At its peak it was 40mill a year
this deal is 21.5 mill + fta + streaming direct sales
 
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Wb1234 said:

Tall poppy syndrome big time
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Look at our resident pomy( Perth Red).
So long as he has his club, everyone else be dammed! Against any expansion outside of one's that directly benefit him..

That's SL - the majority of those clubs.

Wakey has a sold out 9k or whatever vs Leeds- they say wonderful, more of that..
Without any realisation that that 9k will always only ever be there abouts.. the size of the town, where it is.. is tapped out! Will never grow!

Does my head in.

PVL.. Please help !!
 
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Look at our resident pomy( Perth Red).
So long as he has his club, everyone else be dammed! Against any expansion outside of one's that directly benefit him..

That's SL - the majority of those clubs.

Wakey has a sold out 9k or whatever vs Leeds- they say wonderful, more of that..
Without any realisation that that 9k will always only ever be there abouts.. the size of the town, where it is.. is tapped out! Will never grow!

Does my head in.

PVL.. Please help !!
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buy a clue.

My club hasnt avg'd over 7.5k for decades. some would say it was tapped out at that.
Lo and behold club got its sht together on and of the field and will this year avg over 10k.
SL isnt NRL, clubs arent going to get 20k. Plonking clubs in Birmingham or Liverpool or Nottingham arent going to see crowds rise. Just clubs fail (again)
Clubs building their facilities and fanbases like Wakey, HKR, Leigh have done (and soon Cas hopefully) along with better marketing and closer competition is where we will see SL attendances increase.
A well run Bradford and York have great potential. London are always going to be up against it but worth persevering with if they can get their sht together and find some investors.
France need to be in SL for the sake of French RL and its future, but they are bludging and costing the English clubs money. That's the hard fact of it.

My ideal SL would be

St's
Wigan
Warrington
Leigh
Leeds
Cas
Wakey
Bradford
HKR
HFC
York
London
Toulouse
Catalans
 
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Wb1234 said:

Tall poppy syndrome big time
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Perth Red said:
buy a clue.

My club hasnt avg'd over 7.5k for decades. some would say it was tapped out at that.
Lo and behold club got its sht together on and of the field and will this year avg over 10k.
SL isnt NRL, clubs arent going to get 20k. Plonking clubs in Birmingham or Liverpool or Nottingham arent going to see crowds rise. Just clubs fail (again)
Clubs building their facilities and fanbases like Wakey, HKR, Leigh have done (and soon Cas hopefully) along with better marketing and closer competition is where we will see SL attendances increase.
A well run Bradford and York have great potential. London are always going to be up against it but worth persevering with if they can get their sht together and find some investors.
France need to be in SL for the sake of French RL and its future, but they are bludging and costing the English clubs money. That's the hard fact of it.

My ideal SL would be

St's
Wigan
Warrington
Leigh
Leeds
Cas
Wakey
Bradford
HKR
HFC
York
London
Toulouse
Catalans
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Why are York a powerhouse all of a sudden?!
 
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Perth Red said:
buy a clue.

My club hasnt avg'd over 7.5k for decades. some would say it was tapped out at that.
Lo and behold club got its sht together on and of the field and will this year avg over 10k.
SL isnt NRL, clubs arent going to get 20k. Plonking clubs in Birmingham or Liverpool or Nottingham arent going to see crowds rise. Just clubs fail (again)
Clubs building their facilities and fanbases like Wakey, HKR, Leigh have done (and soon Cas hopefully) along with better marketing and closer competition is where we will see SL attendances increase.
A well run Bradford and York have great potential. London are always going to be up against it but worth persevering with if they can get their sht together and find some investors.
France need to be in SL for the sake of French RL and its future, but they are bludging and costing the English clubs money. That's the hard fact of it.

My ideal SL would be

St's
Wigan
Warrington
Leigh
Leeds
Cas
Wakey
Bradford
HKR
HFC
York
London
Toulouse
Catalans
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Ladies and gentlemen: exhibit A ^^^
 
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