The Virtual Terrace • Re: SL to return to 14 in 2019
Call Me God wrote:
Halifax has a population of near 100,000 people and last season were one of 6 sides in the Championship from West Yorkshire, with a population of 2.3 million....so how come with 30 "local derbies" in the regular season we aren't filling The Shay, Odsal, Mt Pleasant etc? 2,027 was the average gate for the Championship in 2017 and now with HKR and Bradford elsewhere, I can see that dropping down again in 2018....Toronto might draw a few curious fans back for one game, but what are the clubs doing to attract more fans?
This isn't a pop at Fax or west Yorkshire clubs BTW.......just a genuine question. If we're not going to accept offers of new territories from "supposedly cashed up" owners in far flung cities, what are we going to do about the decline in interest in the heartlands?
Get where you are comming from
But, reading all these pages upon pages of how expansion is the saviour of Rugby League, can someone out there help me out with a few questions that dont seem to be answered - (I am but a simple man)
1. I have read: Catalans (Toulouse) bring more to the table than say Leigh or Widnes. What do they bring, what I can see is they have been in SL for many a year now. They bring no fans, they are covered by SKY, so what do they bring? do they actually put money into the RL?
2. Toronto apparently with there multi billion TV deal - well they were operationg last season on Premier Sports, does anyone know how much they injected into the RL if anything. Again another team with a taxi load of fans.
3. New York some on here have stated get them in Super League, they dont even have a team yet - If we think the Americans are going to travel to the North of England with all their equipment to show RL live - err dont think so.
4. Marketing again read loads about marketing - you can spend thousands of pounds on me trying to sell synchronised swimming to me, but if I dont want to go I wont.
5. Anyone remember these: gateshead who, Paris what, kent who, Scarborough err, yea all these made up clubs have been, tried it and gone.
We have been there wore the shirt, eat the stew before.
That is probably why a majority of us are sceptical.
6. Read Perez, cracking bloke, he will take over the world - again wasnt Marwan an early Perez, where is he now.
I am not a doom and gloom merchant, we have seen all this come and go before, My opinion rightly or wrongly is we are were we are, like it or lump it and I cant see it improving.
Statistics: Posted by Zulu01 — Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:10 am