The Virtual Terrace • New SKY sports deal
Donnyman wrote:
Big thanks for the well considered interesting post. For some time the only answer to my view that the overseas clubs would not grow the sport, but would block clubs here from being part of Superleague, thus lowering our value to SKY who benefit from English fans subscriptions, and reducing the number of clubs developing players was cheap and cowardly insults from anonymous keyboard warriors. To be honest I'm so endeared with your reply I just want to respect your opinion and thank you for that
Your a true gentleman!!!!
All I can say is that the game obviously needs big crowds, but the crowds in France and Spain don't come here, nor do they buy SKY subscriptions. Catalans don't develop players they buy them from here.
And so you yourself see the clamour to return Bradford Bulls to superleague, so fans renew their lapsed TV subscriptions so the Bradford academy can hopefully inspire kids to try to become Bulls players and find talents like Whitehead and Bateman, and so thousands of Bulls fans can pay through the gates of fellow clubs along the M62.
The question isn't for me should we put Catalans & Toulouse in Superleague?
It is a question of if we do what damage is done by consequently excluding (say) Bradford and Leigh?
And for what?
On the subject of Sky subscriptions, are there any figures about, that indicate a drop in take up since either Leigh, Bradford or even London dropped from SL. Was there any change with the inclusion of Toronto.?
Does having clubs like Catalan (or Toronto) increase the "pull" on neutral fans or are people just not bothered ?
Statistics: Posted by wrencat1873 — Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:33 am — Replies 154 — Views 5487