The grand plan

[Perth Red]

It's literally their first game, settle down lol
Funny how good crowds in Toronto meant nothing to you right..

Fans in Toronto = zero value to uk tv
fans in Bradford = value to uk tv

context is everything.

 

[Gobsmacked]

Fans in Toronto = zero value to uk tv
fans in Bradford = value to uk tv

context is everything.

So crowd figures are value to UK TV ?
You're cooked.

 

[Pippen94]

Fans in Toronto = zero value to uk tv
fans in Bradford = value to uk tv

context is everything.

Lol, did deal go up with Bradford this year?!

 

[Red&BlackBear]

Fans in Toronto = zero value to uk tv
fans in Bradford = value to uk tv

context is everything.

Based in this assessment of yours, you should have been lobbying for Bears in WA since 2009.

context is everything.

 

[Pippen94]

Based in this assessment of yours, you should have been lobbying for Bears in WA since 2009.

context is everything.

Perth red said Perth Bears would be worst possible outcome.
Perth red said Bradford likely lost most of their fanbase being stuck in the championship.

He has long history of contradicting himself.

 

[Wb1234]

Perth red said Perth Bears would be worst possible outcome.
Perth red said Bradford likely lost most of their fanbase being stuck in the championship.

He has long history of contradicting himself.

Imagine he waited 30 years for Perth to get an nrl team nd hull kr to win super league and he’s still like this

 

[Wb1234]

Super league crowds are booming

Expansion brings out lapsed fans like it did here

Hope York Bradford and toulose stay competitive over a long season

Could be a turning point for their league

 

[flippikat]

It's very interesting to see how this all plays out.
The best outcome for France at the moment I think is that the NRL buys into SL, negotiating a better TV deal, giving clubs a bigger grant and a long term SL license.
We're lucky that there's 2 French clubs in SL during this process. It means there's a high likelihood that we have 2 fully professional, well funded SL clubs in France...long term!
This will give a sides like Catalans and Toulouse more incentive to develop French talent and the cash to do it.

I'd love to see another French team in SL but I doubt it would be any time soon.
Hopefully on grading and strategic reasons SL stays at 14 with one M62 club relegated and London promoted.
That stays sustainable for 5 to ten years, then you can expand to 16, maybe a French outfit is one of those but first you need one looking at the Championship..do you know of any ambiguous French club atm?

I wonder if Paris would be worth a shot again?

As I've said earlier, the new super-sized 2nd tier can be used as a great incubator for clubs outside the heartland of RL, prepping them for eventual promotion - North Wales & Midlands are already there.. but Paris, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin are geographically close enough and big enough to be on the radar.

 

[Gobsmacked]

Super league crowds are booming

Expansion brings out lapsed fans like it did here

Hope York Bradford and toulose stay competitive over a long season

Could be a turning point for their league

Toulouse have now won their first 2 games which is outstanding.

 

[Gobsmacked]

I wonder if Paris would be worth a shot again?

As I've said earlier, the new super-sized 2nd tier can be used as a great incubator for clubs outside the heartland of RL, prepping them for eventual promotion - North Wales & Midlands are already there.. but Paris, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin are geographically close enough and big enough to be on the radar.

I just can't see Paris ever being a Rugby league city, it's the opposite of everything League represents.
But I think it has a place in Global round!
Double Header:

Toulouse vs Wigan
Broncos vs Roosters

Fans from Aus, England and the South of France would be in the ballpark of 40k + , get plenty of media and be a massive boost for the game in France, particularly the Toulouse brand.
Events like that could open the possibility of SL getting a decent little TV rights deal in France.

Also be good if the Roosters were involved with it, their brand is the French national brand and the coach Trent has a big connection to France.

 

[Wb1234]

I just can't see Paris ever being a Rugby league city, it's the opposite of everything League represents.
But I think it has a place in Global round!
Double Header:

Toulouse vs Wigan
Broncos vs Roosters

Fans from Aus, England and the South of France would be in the ballpark of 40k + , get plenty of media and be a massive boost for the game in France, particularly the Toulouse brand.
Events like that could open the possibility of SL getting a decent little TV rights deal in France.

Also be good if the Roosters were involved with it, their brand is the French national brand and the coach Trent has a big connection to France.

Even in the glory days of French rugby league it was weak in Paris

Stick to its heartlands in the South

South France likes rugby a lot

 

[Wb1234]

I wonder if Paris would be worth a shot again?

As I've said earlier, the new super-sized 2nd tier can be used as a great incubator for clubs outside the heartland of RL, prepping them for eventual promotion - North Wales & Midlands are already there.. but Paris, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin are geographically close enough and big enough to be on the radar.

Talk to merging English champ and French league by the English strategic review but maybe a pipe dream

 

[BuffaloRules]

Of course, but I said if they could what an asset they’d be. They are off to a great start.

9k … break out the champagne …

What an asset !

 

[Wb1234]

 

[SirPies&Beers]

the numbers are growing so quickly and strong that arlc is better off aiming for short term 21 teams. nz 2 and ipswich as a goal by 2040. thats only 14 years away.

bears and chiefs then have a 4 year break then nz2 or ipswich and then hold for a decade to replenish player stocks, let the png pathways get elite, let the wa pathways grow into being able to supply bears 2 to 4 actual nrl players then introduce team 21 in 2040.

keep it 20 round season playing each team once . have a bye still to keep players fresh. then think about team 22 and stop there.

 

[Perth Red]

So crowd figures are value to UK TV ?
You're cooked.

You dont think there indicative of size of an overall fanbase who watch games on tv? Lol you don’t think clubs with bigger attendances are also the same clubs with bigger tv audiences? Really?

 

[Perth Red]

Based in this assessment of yours, you should have been lobbying for Bears in WA since 2009.

context is everything.

Eh? I have been lobbying for a club in perth since 2010 lol.

 

[Perth Red]

9k … break out the champagne …

What an asset !

Context is everything.

 

[Red&BlackBear]

Eh? I have been lobbying for a club in perth since 2010 lol.

That’s not what I said and what I did say, isn’t that difficult to understand either.

 

[Perth Red]

That’s not what I said and what I did say, isn’t that difficult to understand either.

I’m in Mexico on tequila lol. Why would I have been lobbying for north Sydney? Ns we’re getting crowds under 1000 in 2009.
Where as we had a crowd over 15k Perth fans in perth for a game in 2009.