The Virtual Terrace • Re: Future of the Game
Donnyman wrote:
let me "out" these "selfish" club owners......
Lenegan - Wigan
Caddick - Leeds
Carter - Wakefield
Crossland & Hudgell - HKR
Pearson - Hull
Davey - Huddersfield
McManus - Saints
Moran - Warrington
Fulton - Castleford
Kurdi - Newcastle
Hughes - London
Beaumont - Leigh
Thing is if we organised a 12 club Superleague to keep these rich lads happy and investing/making up the losses, then Rugby League would survive and continue to obtain a SKY contract and be accommodated by the BBC.
But if you don't give these lads what they want for their heavy investments, and insist their money should be diverted to "the greater good" wayne, then perhaps they will all beggar off and then where would you and the game be?
You just do NOT look gift horses in the mouth.
Invent any old utter garbage you want about leagues and structures but it cannot work unless SKY pay for it and they want to pay less next time round. It will be these "selfish" owners who will save the game and the quid pro quo has to be letting them sit at the top table. Godammit they pay to do so......
That's the problem, as you rightly say the chairmen/owners of these clubs want a return for their money and who can argue with that, alternatively if you don't put money into the grass roots of the game they won't have any players coming through, that's not an opinion by the way but simply an observation whether that's been short sighted on they're part or just greed and self preservation who knows, they'll reap what they sow ultimately I suppose, but I like what you did there by using my comment which all it was, to imply that I'm not in the same mind as you but with a different train of thought regarding where this funding will or won't go.
Just one other thing and please don't think for one moment I am doubting you, but you've stated quite a few times now that Sky are looking to offer less money when they renew their contract with SL do you have proof of this or is it simply your own belief?
Statistics: Posted by little wayne69 — Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:42 am