The Virtual Terrace • Talksport this afternoon. TV deal news
Donnyman wrote:
I shouldn't think either will be in Superleague 2022.
That's the season a reduced TV deal comes in from SKY and a reduced Superleague of likely 10 clubs. Who the clubs will be will be decided by Superleague bosses and SKY who will favour the English clubs so Leeds, Hull. HKR, Wakey, Cas, Huddersfield, Wire, Saints, Wigan and Leigh is likely to be the league by then or should we say Caddick, Pearson, Hudgell, Carter, Fulton, Davey, Moran, McManus, Lenigan and Beaumont.....
None of these gentlemen will sell out a colleague to continue the TWP farce. SKY will want English clubs and their subscription buying fans. TWP have no value to the game here. To indicate the supporter base of TWP in Toronto is any value to clubs here isn't right is it Steph.
Lack of any forward plan will again impact on any TV deal.
The N. American experiment with a "let's just see how it goes" attitude isn't going to help secure any improvement n the TV deal.
It's quite ridiculous that NOBODY knows if we should stick or twist in terms of expanding the comp.
As a supporter of one of the so called smaller clubs, there is a concern that "we" will try and squeeze some of the UK clubs out, to allow the remaining clubs to take a larger slice of a smaller cake or, simply reduce the size of SL, with the same result.
This would be "sold" as "improving the quality" of the comp, with the reality being something quite different.
The addition of the N. American clubs will increase costs to all clubs without increasing the return
Although, in the lower leagues, Toronto coming to town with their "star studded" side does generate some additional interest, this is unlikely to be the case in SL and do they actually have any plans to invest in grassroots development.
Difficult as this is, if they have any aspirations to develop the sport over there, there has to be some roots underneath the headline club.
Statistics: Posted by wrencat1873 — Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:22 am — Replies 194 — Views 9818