NRL to buy share of Super League

[Gobsmacked]

Seems to me nrl has had talks with dazn about the potential for a nrl/SL package deal. Can’t see any other reason vlad would care about the English game.
the fact he’s already softened supposed demands in order to get a quick in principal agreement so they can get on with their tv negotiations certainly leads it that way.

Why are you so negative?!

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Seems to me nrl has had talks with dazn about the potential for a nrl/SL package deal. Can’t see any other reason vlad would care about the English game.
the fact he’s already softened supposed demands in order to get a quick in principal agreement so they can get on with their tv negotiations certainly leads it that way.

Exactly, I wonder if V`landys sees himself as doing something with Rugby League like what Bernie Ecclestone did for Formula One. First step is you have to own it.

Why are you so negative?!

Not in this case mate, I think this is just the reality, V`landys wants control of Super League and therefore he can control the games future, everything else is pretty much under his control now.

 

[jason taylor]

Exactly, I wonder if V`landys sees himself as doing something with Rugby League like what Bernie Ecclestone did for Formula One. First step is you have to own it.


Not in this case mate, I think this is just the reality, V`landys wants control of Super League and therefore he can control the games future, everything else is pretty much under his control now.

Pretty much - particularly if those rumours about the NRL investing in the French game are true. If V’landys gets in principle control over Super League, he basically has all the major rugby league competitions under one umbrella (the only exception being whatever the heck is going on over in the US)

 

[jolly boys outing]

Pretty much - particularly if those rumours about the NRL investing in the French game are true. If V’landys gets in principle control over Super League, he basically has all the major rugby league competitions under one umbrella (the only exception being whatever the heck is going on over in the US)

Love to see the NRL focus and invest in the French domestic RL competition more than super league.

would be great to have a genuine third professional RL domestic competition alongside the NRL And super league.

 

[Perth Red]

Why are you so negative?!

Nothing negative in what I posted. Just some supposition in his motives for investing in SL

 

[Perth Red]

Love to see the NRL focus and invest in the French domestic RL competition more than super league.

would be great to have a genuine third professional RL domestic competition alongside the NRL And super league.

There isnt ten cities in France close to capable of hosting full time professional rugby league. It would take tens of millions a year.

 

[jolly boys outing]

There isnt ten cities in France close to capable of hosting full time professional rugby league. It would take tens of millions a year.

Mix of current teams with new expanded teams easily gives you a 10 team competition.

why would it cost tens of millions?

 

[Wb1234]

Love to see the NRL focus and invest in the French domestic RL competition more than super league.

would be great to have a genuine third professional RL domestic competition alongside the NRL And super league.

Yeh

English clubs are too set in their ways and won’t give up control

The French game has already shown it can be big in the south of France. In its glory days it was on the cusp of overtaking union

Catalans
Toulouse
Marseille
Lyon
Paris if they have money behind it
Then teams like Avignon etc

You could even have a club from Italy and Spain down the track

Wouldn’t take much to surpass the English tv deal either

The English have failed to develop France in the way the nrl have invested in kiwi juniors

You could argue that league in France pre super league is was at least on par with league in nz pre warriors

 

[jolly boys outing]

Yeh

English clubs are too set in their ways and won’t give up control

The French game has already shown it can be big in the south of France. In its glory days it was on the cusp of overtaking union

Catalans
Toulouse
Marseille
Lyon
Paris if they have money behind it
Then teams like Avignon etc

You could even have a club from Italy and Spain down the track

Wouldn’t take much to surpass the English tv deal either

The English have failed to develop France in the way the nrl libs have invested in kiwi juniors

You could argue that league in France pre super league is was at least on par with league in nz pre warriors

Montpellier and Bordeaux also are historic French RL clubs and like you say Italy and Spain isnt a million miles away from southern France region .

serbian club also a possibility.

 

[Wb1234]

Montpellier and Bordeaux also are historic French RL clubs and like you say Italy and Spain isnt a million miles away from southern France region .

serbian club also a possibility.

I edited it add the Wolfpack

Imagine they revived that

 

[Taking The Two]

France is pie in the sky nonsense, as was the 2026 World Cup and how they’d create a full time league off the back of it. It’s lightyears behind UK RL and would take quite literally decades to get close based on Super League continuing on the path it’s on.

Super League is what has to be focused on. It’s either, get on board or go bust, at this stage. The issue is breaking down the barriers put up by old men in boardrooms. These are men in their 70’s and realistically, many will have to retire and move on within the next 5-10 years, they’re just so focused on retaining some form of value at their clubs and why they’ll vote whatever they can that gives them the best chance of that.

 

[Pippen94]

Love to see the NRL focus and invest in the French domestic RL competition more than super league.

would be great to have a genuine third professional RL domestic competition alongside the NRL And super league.

There's only one major city in elite one. A combined french and English league is better

 

[Pippen94]

Montpellier and Bordeaux also are historic French RL clubs and like you say Italy and Spain isnt a million miles away from southern France region .

serbian club also a possibility.

Unless a billionaire is funding those sides they probably won't happen. In saying that they had billionaire flying team over to Europe from Toronto in the past so never say never I guess..

 

[Pippen94]

I edited it add the Wolfpack

Imagine they revived that

They'd be in NRL ten team comp if they were still around.

 

[Pippen94]

Yeh

English clubs are too set in their ways and won’t give up control

The French game has already shown it can be big in the south of France. In its glory days it was on the cusp of overtaking union

Catalans
Toulouse
Marseille
Lyon
Paris if they have money behind it
Then teams like Avignon etc

You could even have a club from Italy and Spain down the track

Wouldn’t take much to surpass the English tv deal either

The English have failed to develop France in the way the nrl have invested in kiwi juniors

You could argue that league in France pre super league is was at least on par with league in nz pre warriors

Big call. I don't remember too many great french players in the 90's.

Team 11 is good talking point. There's no obvious candidate like there were in 2020. Like Richo said I don't think NRL wants Halifax..

 

[Taking The Two]

Toronto was a farce. They’d have gone bust anyway, even if COVID hadn’t happened. They were defaulting on payments and in the cycle of late payments to players long before some fella had a deep fried bat. Even when the shampoo bloke wanted to take over them it was “yeah, I’ve got the money, trust me bro” when The RFL, rightfully, asked for proof of funds.

 

[jason taylor]

Big call. I don't remember too many great french players in the 90's.

Team 11 is good talking point. There's no obvious candidate like there were in 2020. Like Richo said I don't think NRL wants Halifax..

V’landys is now on the record saying the 10 team thing is solely a Richo thought bubble. He’s not the one guiding NRL policy/strategy.

Reading between the lines of the BBC interview, I think he’s fine with whatever gets a TV deal/is ‘sustainable’. You could see his disbelief regarding going to 14 without having the TV rights settled/teams 13 and 14 getting a smaller share of the distribution

 

[Pippen94]

V’landys is now on the record saying the 10 team thing is solely a Richo thought bubble. He’s not the one guiding NRL policy/strategy.

Reading between the lines of the BBC interview, I think he’s fine with whatever gets a TV deal/is ‘sustainable’. You could see his disbelief regarding going to 14 without having the TV rights settled/teams 13 and 14 getting a smaller share of the distribution

He actually said 14 teams was a train wreck waiting to happen. If NRL have part ownership NRL and superleague with be package sold to broadcasters.

 

[Taking The Two]

Shying away from saying that he wants 10, 12, 14, 26 etc is probably a smart move. It doesn’t send fear into the chairmen that their little club will be locked out of the league and that others will be unceremoniously relegated because they play in a hole in the earth surrounded by tyres from a lorry.

 

[Perth Red]

Mix of current teams with new expanded teams easily gives you a 10 team competition.

why would it cost tens of millions?

Come on then tell us which cities in France are capable of generating enough players and revenue for a ft club. to start up a ft club in a non rl city requires massive investment, to create 7 or 8 from scratch in decent population cities would be insane amounts of money.