The Virtual Terrace • Re: The Key to Success is...
notorious wrote:
My point is simply that there is a precedent for sports without English teams to be successful here and turn Sky’s head. Elstone/Super League seem to have no interest in pursuing this avenue though so my point is fairly irrelevant.
It's a very good point and apologies for me misunderstanding it, I felt it was important to be clear as I understood it, that as we stand we offer just an English League - and yes IF we could offer an international game then we may get rights from all over - and as Eric Perez himself indicated NATV deals in particular can be very big.
1. On the issue of developing the game in North America success in doing that - which could have come from Perez being highly successful with grid iron players being converted to professional RL players could have seen a home grown Toronto Wolfpack and led us onto home grown SL clubs in New York, Boston, Ottawa and Montreal.
2. At that point Perez predicted a big TV deal, probably even more so with six clubs so let's add Jacksonville for balance. Imagine that - a half European half North America league!!!
3. The only problem then is where do we go on the TV deal(s) after that? Does North America add Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Halifax Nova Scotia, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Calgary to their existing six clubs, break away and capture a massive double the size and more NATV deal? They can then buy up the best players from our clubs here here whilst they further develop their own player development systems.
4. And then we die.
5. I was rightly pulled on this argument by a chap who said if North America can make Rugby League huge there and we can't, then we have to suck it up, for the good of the game itself.
6. But from where I am standing North America has failed to produce a single pro player or a cent from a TV deal, and the French can't get TV deals and just want to buy all their players from here.
7. AND SO as we are the ones who CAN make a success of RL in the Northern Hemisphere by getting a TV deal and producing quality players then Superleague needs to be an English league and the Americans and French should stand aside and let us make the best of the game here.
8. Because the bottom line is the more you bring in overseas clubs that cannot develop players or find a paying TV deal and get rid of clubs that DO produce players and get TV deals (that's how it's working Catalans up Widnes down, TWP up London down) the more you destroy the player development system and the more you lose your value to English broadcasters. Nobody then wins and RL is lost altogether...... Superleague won't work with just six English clubs. Nobody then wins.
Statistics: Posted by Donnyman — Sat Jan 18, 2020 1:26 pm