Gambass

 

Magic Weekend - the only sport that has a festival where all 14 teams play in one venue over a weekend.

 

Just for the sake of it: the french women basketball league has the exact same thing running since 2005. There are probably many other similar exemples somewhere in the world.

 

Fair enough. I was going to try to argue that Dax is really in RU land. But I know that is a poor argument. Wakey is in RL land.

 

One thing though - is Dax quite affluent?

 

It's doing OK, I would say. But not really rich, nothing like Biarritz if you want.

I realize that we are entering apples and oranges territory here, but I still believe that the likes of Wakefield & Co should/could do much better on that field.

US Dax

On the plus attendances are less of a defining factor in french sport as it is in the UK, french sporting teams get greater public funding from local councils and government bodies. The commercial and public support for Catalans has been nothing short of exceptional.
Based onban official report from the RFL they get the highest turnover of any SL club. A magnificent achievement.

There is also a case to be made about the lack of commercial support of english SL clubs. I remember a few months ago there were a thread here about how Wakefied (I think it was) was aiming to double its commercial income. It sounded all good, before I realised that the sum they were talking about was about the same as the commercial support of my hometown RU team. A team that play in french tier 2 in a city of no more than 20 000 habitants...

Bradford's home attendances in 2012 fell by 16% under licensing.

Bradford's home attendances in 2013 fell by 27% under licensing.

Bradford's home attendances in 2014 are currently down by 21%.

 

Jeopardy must be to blame.

No, really.