gingerjon

But they were not blocked. The vested interests did not prevent those things happening.

Toronto joined the league since. It's not the other clubs' fault they didn't pay their bills and then tried to pitch a weird grooming products scheme to save the day. Toulouse are also currently in Super League. Ottawa were accepted to join.

No one was watching by the end but they still gave Football Focus a good send off

Lahvlee ...

35C recorded. They're not going to run right.

Whoa. There's a huge amount going on there, isn't there?

Do they need to? I mean, we could do it the P&R way and have (likely) London replace (likely) Hudds. Or we could, as per the past two years, do it on an increasingly opaque grading/business plan system to get the same outcome.

The earlier rounds are great and that has improved a lot over the past few years. You can tell there's a buzz around a lot of the games. It dies, and has for decades now, during the SL exclusive rounds, before spluttering back for the final. There's no fix for the final that is focused on what happens before the final. They are two completely separate issues.

I love the absolute commitment to learning zero lessons. I did think - for pure RL comparison - that this was the North Caledonian Football Association (actually a league) whose status as a senior competition (as opposed to the (now defunct?) 'junior' competitions) meant their clubs and players were on a par with the Scottish League (officially) despite it being a park pitch league. But now I know about the NoSFL so am very happy to bask in that as well.

If that is a blanket attitude to any investment then there won't be much investment from anyone forthcoming. I imagine it's more nuanced than that.

Have to say, I am sometimes quite shocked at the general 'atmosphere' at a lot of community games when footage is shared. And not in a remotely pearl clutching way - just a, "Christ, you're grown adults, what the heck is wrong with you?" way.

Odd thing to insist on. Was that to make the seasons completely align?

Most times but it's still the default for major boxing fights, for example.

I think they would be struggling anyway as the market for magazines, DVDs and cards doesn't exist in anything like the same way but the PE investment appears to have been on the classic 'terms favourable and risk free for owners, business could never succeed' model.

You're right. Their model seems to be PPV for specific games, or mini subs, for sports covered elsewhere - which is why, I suspect, it didn't work for domestic English soccer which has always objected to PPV and found ways around it.