gingerjon

Caught the WSL promotion/relegation play off before this. So I am now on around 210 minutes without a goal …

Always the way as the side facing the camera is where the uber corporates are and they don’t fill until 5-10 mins after the restart

Outside of the UK, all EPL matches are shown live on television.

Yes. That was my joke. The prime mover was to remove loops but then they put Magic back in and added a loop right back in. It was that level of thought.

Look, diluting the player pool, increasing the number of Aussie journeymen, and spending a million quid on two clubs rather than the whole games was worth it to avoid the nightmare of Saints playing Wigan three times in a league season.

What is it?

In their communities, they definitely will be

Fewer qualifiers would lead to more friendlies which are even less interesting.

People were saying they needed the details because otherwise they either may not at all, or they may book something else. Details were dates - with enough notice - and quality of tournament. We are agreed that the tournament is badly organised, badly promoted, put together in a shoddy way, and with no sense of occasion. Why would a significant number of people be rushing to book for that?

We said that the organisation and set up of the tournament, including release dates of schedules, would have an adverse impact on numbers travelling. Now there appear to be low numbers travelling. What, exactly, is your argument here? That the tournament is badly organised and put together - a "hodge podge" in fact - but that that's not important because reasons?

Tennis has its own channel and is an excellent pub background sport.

Also Super League has been prominent in their summer of sport ads. I'm not too bothered about us missing out on a single weekend.

You're clearly out of practice with your trolling because this is very poor.

Odd way of saying, "The underwhelming and deliberately 'Australians first and only' approach to marketing the World Cup will have impacted the numbers of people travelling from outside the country."

I may be proved wrong, but I think Paramount+ is a far more secure situation than anything connected to DAZN.