SL 2025 Discussion

[Coastbloke]

Apparently Brian Carney has caused a bit of a stir after he made some comments this weekend?

 

[Perth Red]

There was a lot of chat about it over the weekends games. There is a lot of turmoil and uncertainty at moment. Wood is very polarizing figure in the game, as is Beaumont who is leading the cheerleading.

 

[Coastbloke]

NRL buying a chunk of SL or outright?

 

[Perth Red]

NRL buying a chunk of SL or outright?

Surprisingly it seems the anti NRL ownership has grown with the change of direction at the RFL.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

sods law we could actually win something in our worse kit for years!

It put a hex on the Knights sartorial future when they won the ARL GF in 97 wearing Crystal Palace shirts.

 

[The Great Dane]

There was a lot of chat about it over the weekends games. There is a lot of turmoil and uncertainty at moment. Wood is very polarizing figure in the game, as is Beaumont who is leading the cheerleading.

Yeah, too much chat.

A schism seems to forming in English RL between two groups, both of which recognise the need for change, but which can't agree on which direction to take the sport in.

It's all very murky, and there's lots of scrambling going on, but there seems to be a group trying to revert to tradition by supporting Nigel Wood's reinstatement, and another group that's proposing an undisclosed, but supposedly more radical change. Shane Richardson and others comments suggest that the NRL are watching the situation very closely as well.

It's not just Brain Carney that's alluding to it either. Most people in the know are all talking around it without directly addressing it publicly, and a lot of sabre rattling is happening.

As always it's more likely than not that it'll eventually fizzle out and English RL will continue revelling in the miasma of it's own incompetence, but there's way too much smoke for there not to have been a fire there. There are definitely people not happy with the standard MO of sport in England and the direction it's heading in, and they're getting bolder and more outspoken. I can see why people are comparing it to the pre-Super League era as well, because it definitely has that feel about it.

 

[The Great Dane]

Surprisingly it seems the anti NRL ownership has grown with the change of direction at the RFL.

Sort of, not really.

If the consensus on the internet is to be believed, so grab your grain of salt, the NRL are seriously sniffing around and the usual suspects at a few clubs are scared of the inevitable loss of influence and control they'll suffer if the NRL took over, so they're circling the wagons.

TBF, the control those vested interests have over the administration of the sport is one of the biggest things holding RL back in the UK, and any new owner would massively reduce their influence over the sport.

 

[Perth Red]

SL crowd watch​

Some healthy Rd5 crowds HKR and Wakey have home crowd sell outs again, Good crowds at St's and leeds. Salford seriously compromising the rd avg.

round one attendances​

Wigan Warriors 0 Leigh Leopards 1 - 21,748
Leeds Rhinos 12 Wakefield Trinity 15,364
St Helens 82 Salford Red Devils 0 - 12,218
Hull KR 19 Castleford Tigers 18 - 11,020 (sell out)
Catalans Dragons 4 Hull FC 24 - 9,273
Huddersfield Giants 12 Warrington Wolves 20 - 5,871

Rd1 Avg: 12,582

round two attendances

Wakefield v Hull KR 8,065 (sell out)
Hull FC v Wigan 14,751
Warrington v Catalans 11,157
Salford v Leeds 5,798
Castleford v St's 7,723
Leigh v Huddersfield 8,440

Rd2 Avg: 9,322

round three attendances

Wigan v Warrington Vegas *45k
Leeds v Cas 14,234
HKR v Salford 10,515
Leigh v Catalans 8,011
Wakefield v St's 7,604
Giants v HFC 4,559

Rd 3 Avg 8,984*

round four attendances

HFC v Leigh 9,765
Cas v Salford 6,295
St's v HKR 11,438
Cats v Leeds 8,125
Wolves v Wakey 10,024
Wigan v Hudds 17,625

Rd 4 Avg 12,261

round five attendances

Salford v Hudds 3,764
St's v Warrington 14,068
Wakefield v HFC 8,027 (sell out)
Cas v Dragons 6,005
Leeds v Wigan 15,996
HKR v leigh 11,231 (sell out)

Rd 5 Avg 9,848

Season Avg 10,599

 

[Perth Red]

SRL Clubs rating so far:

Hull KR – A+
Hull FC – A+
Leigh Leopards – B+
Wakefield Trinity – B
Leeds Rhinos – B-
St Helens – C+
Wigan Warriors – C
Warrington Wolves – C
Catalans Dragons – D
Castleford Tigers – E
Salford Red Devils – F
Huddersfield Giants – F

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[Coastbloke]

Foxtel Group locks in Super League rights

Foxtel Group extends its Super League rights, making Kayo Sports the exclusive home of Super League and NRL games in Australia.

www.mediaweek.com.au

 

[Perth Red]

Wonder if it is until end of NRL contract? Hopefully not longer as want to see NRL and SL rights on same platform!
I wonder how much Sky sports pay for NRL rights and if it would be more lucrative for NRL to go into partnership with SL and provide NRL content on SL+ streaming service? Something they could build together.

 

[Broncos thats my team]

Does this include Challenge Cup?

 

[Perth Red]

Hull KR already sold out for Wigan game in two weeks time. Over 700 tickets also sold to watch the CC 1/4 final derby game at Craven St. Heady times indeed in the east of the City of Hull.

 

[Perth Red]

Both Hull clubs killing it for away fans this season.
HFC took over 1800 to Wakefield and HKR have sold over 2000 seats at Huddersfield for today. Lucky to see 200-300 travelling fans at Craven Park or MKM stadium most games.

 

[Perth Red]

Mixed bag of games this round with a couple of close battles and two of the heavyweights putting the bottom clubs to the sword. Leigh getting hammered again a big surprise and HFC cement a 2nd spot setting up next weeks CC 1/4 final derby nicely. Mikey Lewis put on a halfback masterclass against the Giants.

 

[Perth Red]

SL crowd watch​

Rd 6 crowds a mixed bag with some decent crowds at Wigan, Warrington and France but Hudds low despite over 2,200 HKR fans attending.

round one attendances​

Wigan Warriors 0 Leigh Leopards 1 - 21,748
Leeds Rhinos 12 Wakefield Trinity 15,364
St Helens 82 Salford Red Devils 0 - 12,218
Hull KR 19 Castleford Tigers 18 - 11,020 (sell out)
Catalans Dragons 4 Hull FC 24 - 9,273
Huddersfield Giants 12 Warrington Wolves 20 - 5,871

Rd1 Avg: 12,582

round two attendances

Wakefield v Hull KR 8,065 (sell out)
Hull FC v Wigan 14,751
Warrington v Catalans 11,157
Salford v Leeds 5,798
Castleford v St's 7,723
Leigh v Huddersfield 8,440

Rd2 Avg: 9,322

round three attendances

Wigan v Warrington Vegas *45k
Leeds v Cas 14,234
HKR v Salford 10,515
Leigh v Catalans 8,011
Wakefield v St's 7,604
Giants v HFC 4,559

Rd 3 Avg 8,984*

round four attendances

HFC v Leigh 9,765
Cas v Salford 6,295
St's v HKR 11,438
Cats v Leeds 8,125
Wolves v Wakey 10,024
Wigan v Hudds 17,625

Rd 4 Avg 12,261

round five attendances

Salford v Hudds 3,764
St's v Warrington 14,068
Wakefield v HFC 8,027 (sell out)
Cas v Dragons 6,005
Leeds v Wigan 15,996
HKR v leigh 11,231 (sell out)

Rd 5 Avg 9,848

round six attendances
Cas v HFC 7,458
Wolves v Rhinos 10,523
Leigh v Wakey 8,050
Dragons v St's 9,386
Hudds v HKR 5,101
Wigan v Salford 14,262

Rd 6 Avg 9,130

Season Avg 10,354

 

[JFK Files]

Highlight of the season so far is seeing so many good young players in SL.
Who is your favourite so far ?
Fletcher Rooney
Riley Lumb
Lewis Martin
Harvey Barron
George Flanagan
Oliver Platt
Dayon Sambou
Aaron Lindop
Zach Eckersley

 

[Perth Red]

Highlight of the season so far is seeing so many good young players in SL.
Who is your favourite so far ?
Fletcher Rooney
Riley Lumb
Lewis Martin
Harvey Barron
George Flanagan
Oliver Platt
Dayon Sambou
Aaron Lindop
Zach Eckersley

Was very impressed with Flanagan at the weekend in a well beaten side. He needs to put some muscle on and get defence sorted but with ball in hand he looked pretty special.

 

[JFK Files]

He did miss Mikey Lewis a few times but I haven’t seen him struggle defensively like that before so it may be down to him not used to playing up in the line as he normally plays fullback.

 

[Jonty]

Highlight of the season so far is seeing so many good young players in SL.
Who is your favourite so far ?
Fletcher Rooney
Riley Lumb
Lewis Martin
Harvey Barron
George Flanagan
Oliver Platt
Dayon Sambou
Aaron Lindop
Zach Eckersley

wakefield centre Oliver Pratt.

I like the look of the hull fc wingers Barron and Martin as well . They sound like a solicitors firm as well!!