JohnM
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I understand that getting more fans through the turnstiles means more gross revenue. 1000 extra fans, average entry price (mix of full price, concessions) £20 over say 13 home games = £230,000 per season gross, but significantly less nett after costs....or even adding to a clubs losses. Its up to each individual club to work on that.
In 2025 surely the battle is about TV rights and that's the job of SuperLeague/RL Commercial/RFL to drive. That's one of the things IMG were brought in to consult on. Somehow, I've a feeling that they might be better at it than rugby leagues answer to the Power of Parker.
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Everything that is happening, that is going on etc is entirely the clubs own fault. Instead of falling for the old "double glazing will save you money" line, the clubs should have stuck with what they had already agreed... "Re-imagining Rugby League"
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SuperLeague with two or more of Bradford, Oldham, Batley, Featherstone, York even, (at the expense of Salford?) to make it up to 14 sounds like we've given up, shrunk the boundaries and told the world that rugby league is a northern sport for northern people. At least with London and Toulouse in, there is some indication that we've broadened our horizons at least a lttle.
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all hell's going to break loose, isn't it?
I doubt it. This lot have shown that they pay scant regards to the rules when they put Wood into a position in contravention of Sport England rules.
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"Smoke is mainly just the result of incomplete combustion, so it's actually a failure for fire to actually occur properly. Since incomplete combustion often occurs early in the process of an actual fire, people made an association which is not entirely accurate. So from a physics perspective, neither implies the other."
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9 hours ago, Londonbornirishbred said:
Without wishing to be to blunt, the club is a basket case. A 1000% increase in fan engagement & Social media is all well and good, but when the choir that you a preaching too is maybe just 300 or so strong, then you really need funds to attract more fans and for countless years Hughes ignored this. As a result, GH has basically taken over a tier 3 level side renting a tier 1 stadium and struggling in tier 2.
Talk of pathways and academy’s are fantastic, but cold hard cash is what is needed and without assurances from IMG, nobody is going to take a punt of millions on a “maybe”, so whilst I don’t think “hounds” is a good idea, it might be time to retire the old nag to the glue factory and rebrand with the energy and bravado the deckboy del did with the centurions.but as I say, cash ain’t coming without a nod from IMG
but as I say, cash ain’t coming without a nod from IMG
It's not up to IMG, though. Especially with the new cleaner than clean, brighter than bright RFL, who have already decided that London will be in Super League.
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22 minutes ago, Les Tonks Sidestep said:
Without clicking on the link my money's on the article being written by Callum Walker?
From an original idea by N. Wood.
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Are we sure they are coming? Some story saying they've not booked hotels yet, etc.
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If the New Old Kids on the Block are going to try to get more money out of Sky, or to try to get a new TV partner, then they'll have to have enough cards in their hands.
Sky will know exactly the value they are getting from their SuperLeague rights and if that value is trivial (subscriptions and ad revenue minus costs?) then they can just walk away from any quit threats from Wood . Of course, we don't know what money Sky make from SuperLeague so work needs doing there.
So the RFL needs to work on a value proposition and although Wood is an accountant, maybe he needs help in creating the value proposition to put before Sky and it's competitors.
If only I could find one to suggest. One that has a long term track record of success in multiple sports, across the whole world.
I Must Get looking for one.
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From the Beaumont Hetherington statement in League Express March 12th 2025.
“The review will encompass the “whole of the game” and will solicit views from as wide a cross section as possible, engaging the views of all clubs, and to include those of our biggest assets, our partners and supporters."
“It is aimed to have this work undertaken, for presentation to the RFL Council at the next scheduled meeting in July, when members will have their say on the best way forward. This is not intended to be a long drawn-out process but a prompt, transparent and effective one that delivers outcomes and produce results the game needs to achieve."
It's July 1st tomorrow. Which fans have been asked for their views?
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Watched Rod Stewart last night. Great show, with him, 80, Ronnie Wood 78, Lulu 76, Mick Hucknall 65.
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1 hour ago, Dave T said:
Maybe the leap of faith point was too clumsy a description. There can absolutely be numbers associated with principles to show the size of the prize.
Personally I just dont see these gaps that you call out. The reimagining RL document does outline the vision and what they are aiming for.
They have outlined the plan. A key part of that plan was to drive up standards of clubs so that you can increase number of clubs from a position of strength. That's being undermined now.
They have laid out what the plan is, with some exceptions, but this does come back to it being a 12 year deal and not a 12m piece.
Re the "leap of faith". I'd like to explain it in terms of "best practice" as identified by IMG because of their experience and track record across time, across geographies, across cultures and across sectors. This is something that the new RFL will never be able to match in any way if it kicks out IMG.
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1 hour ago, phiggins said:
Is that really the only reason it is being torn up? I may have missed something, or forgotten something. But I've not heard a single club express any praise or confidence in IMG in the last year to 18 months. I think if they had laid out a plan to the clubs that would lead to income being generated within a particular timeframe, then Johnson would still be RFL chair, until the end of the season anyway.
But I've not heard a single club express any praise or confidence in IMG in the last year to 18 months.
if you were to rely on League Express content, then yes, you wouldn't have.
In my day, we ancients had a saying, "Rome wasn't built lin a day."
The equivalent in some rugby league circles is, "Where's that city you promised we'd all build together? After all, you've had all day to build it."
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Perhaps he'd have been better saying, "Clearly I didn't agree with the ref and the video ref but I'm going to talk to the the RFL to try to understand why they reached that decision. I'm certainly not going to go into this in public, straight after the game."
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22 minutes ago, Wakefield Ram said:
Nigel Wood is tearing it up to get Bradford Bulls into SL. This will further lower playing standards in SL and there's no plan for the non-SL clubs. It's a joke.
So much for the game being re-imagined by IMG. It's now just being made up on the spot by Wood.
Nigel Wood is tearing it up to get Bradford Bulls into SL.
I firmly believe this was a condition of him taking the reins. All decided in beer-fumed back rooms somewhere sordid.
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Saints, you say? Hmmmm...
By the way, whatever hapened to Konrad Hurrell?
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Outcome exactly as expected. Caution: Saints must not base any GF hopes and expectations on todays performance or result.
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1 hour ago, Gooleboy said:
GH wouldn't have gone down there just to faff about in the lower leagues for years. He will be in the know.
Not just "in the know" . He IS the know, one of the architects of the conclusions of the clubledwholegamestrategicreview.
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34 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
Yeah, 'he's one of us' says the lad from Swinton!
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I've told you before, I was born in Manchester, brought up in Swinton in a house with electric lighting upstairs aswell as downstairs, with an inside toilet and bathroom, educated in Swinton, Salford and Oldham, lived in Cheshire and in Lincolnshire for just as long as I did in Swinton. Even did two years in Atherton and worse still, seven years or so in Yorkshire.
I decide which team I will support based on what I want.
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1 hour ago, Gooleboy said:
Correct, but it was still a howler that went Wigan's way.
Gosh! Didn't expect that opinion from you.
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It must be remembered that all this was pre-ordained by the plotters. Bradford, London to join the 12 , no matter what. Wood = Bradford, Hetherington = London
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48 minutes ago, rugbyleaguerunner said:
Very proud of the team tonight. Great, also, to see Padge playing holier than thou again
Some things will never change, is it a Wigan thing?
Padge playing holier than thou again.
Maybe thats because he is.
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55 minutes ago, EagleEyePie said:
Feel sorry for Danny McGuire. He'll probably get a fine for giving a truly honest and 100% justified answer to a question that he should have every right to answer honestly. The decision was abysmal and completely incorrect and everyone knows it.
Fine, or compulsory refereeing course, or anger management course, or all three?
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8 minutes ago, Padge said:
McGuire just got himself a big fine.
Petulant player, petulant coach.
Grow up Danny.
Sadly, I missed that. iPlayer cut off immediately after the final whistle. What did he say?
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