The Virtual Terrace • Magic weekend abroad.
red_death wrote:
Evidently not, or I wouldn't have had to point out how misleading you were being!
I think you've got the wrong end of the stick! I made no comment at all on the merits of Catalan vs "local" teams - I was merely pointing out the absurdity of comparing one game's worth of revenue with a season of Sky money. Nothing more, nothing less - you seem to want to make it all about the rather unclear point you were making...without even making it a balanced point.
I'll type this slowly........just for you.....the comment was that Catalan deliver nothing to the UK game...the comment was backed up by 0 facts or stats.
Let s pretend that Catalan weren't in SuperLeague and let us say that Widnes Vikings were the 12th side. Widnes fans would travel in good numbers to Saints, Wire, Salford and possibly Wigan........but in fewer numbers to the other "far away" towns.....I have always believed that 1,000 travelling fans as an average over 11 games is a fair estimate, but just for you, let's call it 1,500.
£20 on a ticket and let's add another score for spends.......wow, we're up to £60,000.
So, Widnes, at {enter other club name here} is worth £60,000 to {enter other club name here}........
{enter other club name here}gets £1,800,000 from SKY TV each year........so, to be clear, Widnes visiting {enter other club name here} delivers 3.3% of the SKY revenue......if {enter other club name here} are a well run club, then Widnes visiting will deliver 1.5% of their entire turn over.....
The "bigger picture"...which I believe you are alluding to is that 11 clubs suffer this fate....so £660,000 is lost to those clubs.....but SKY funding for those 11 clubs is £20,000,000........and let'snot forget, SKY get an extra 11+ games to show a year at little cost (if any).
I have no doubt the arguments for excluding Toronto/Catalan/NYC or any other backwater side seem relevant to those who prefer to attend away games less than a 30 minutes bus ride away, but the reality is if we had 6 foreign sides and 5 northern towns and London in SL, attendances would matter little, so long as Rupert was footing the bill
Statistics: Posted by Call Me God — Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:14 pm — Replies 56 — Views 3203