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gingerjon

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  1. It’s real rugby league people appealing to real rugby league fans. For a certain mindset, especially say a group who resent any outside interference, that may be very appealing.
  2. If I were asked, not that I have been, I would probably say that Super League is my reason for subscribing to Sky. At least in the sense of what motivated me to do so. But having now done so, if Super League leaves Sky it doesn’t necessarily follow that I will go where Super League goes. And I’m unlikely to feel the value of a £40 a month per SL platform.
  3. I wasn't sure if anyone had covered which got the bigger viewing figures England v Wales in the women's Euros or Chelsea v PSG in the Club World Cup so I looked it up. https://shekicks.net/england-euro-2025-viewing-figures-club-world-cup-final/ The coverage on TV channel ITV One averaged 2.9m viewers and peaked at 4.4m. This is more than double the audience that tuned in to Channel 5 to watch Chelsea vs PSG. The average viewing figure on Channel 5 was 1.1m, with a peak of 2.3m. DAZN streaming will add a bit*, but not much, to those numbers and, obviously, globally, the CWC will be well ahead but interesting nevertheless. * as indeed would ITVX and S4C streaming to the England-Wales game.
  4. It's even better than that. You're missing out the very objective and well-thought-through bits where we get Nigel wouldn't have done that added to anything that happened with any negative connotations outside of the Nigel Wood Era of RL Greatness. Even when, for example Stobart, Nigel did do that.
  5. If that's Ratcliffe's assessment of Manchester United then it's no wonder he's been an abject failure when given the keys to any sports side. United's cash position is because of the leveraged deal, illegal in most countries, that the Glazers used to 'purchase' the club and then put the debt from their own money raising onto the club's balance sheet. It's a trick similar to that used by a lot of venture capital purchases - Toys R Us being the one most people have heard of - and has nothing to do with any of the things listed in the summary above. But it's a nice distraction from addressing any of the real issues constructively, I guess.
  6. Yes, I get that and a it’s a good line (genuinely), but it’s not what transparent means, sadly, in recruitment and governance.
  7. Wrexham are probably (definitely) a bigger brand in Australia than any Super League club.
  8. Yup. The whole game solution is to remove most of the whole game. Because some blokes with a bit of money at the top of the game have got a rugby league club and you, parasite and loser, do not.
  9. It's not transparent or fair. Saying, "we're going to appoint this one person" but not why and then not appointing him directly is kind of the opposite of transparent.
  10. Coates is listed as a non exec director. You remember when non execs were bad and the sign of a failing set up?
  11. Who voted on behalf of Salford and what way did they vote?
  12. I’ll just assume, based on their track record, that they did it on vibes and didn’t read nor follow anything else. After all, doing that is their publicly stated reason for not knowing what IMG was all about. No one else is going to want to lead English RL now. I’d be stunned if many really want to be involved with it.
  13. If Leigh Leopards were a volleyball club you'd be training liberos.
  14. Because we love it. Whereas you only tolerate it when everything goes the way you want it to. Thus, most others on this thread are far truer fans of the game than you will ever be, or ever were.
  15. Man who threatens to leave rugby league every season if some minor rule change goes ahead says what?
  16. You're quite happy to cast aspersions on everyone outside the precious heartlands. And yet it is the heartlanders, for all their hard work, who have failed hardest and most frequently. Get a thicker skin if you're going to hurl insults at everyone who doesn't fit the narrow, narrow, narrow vision of what you think rugby league should be.
  17. They own a rugby league club. Do you have a rugby league club?? *insert picture of Milhouse's dad here*
  18. They will, because this is the mentality now, use that as validation. Back bedroom critics etc. The sport's new leaders actively despise the vast majority of their actual current fans.
  19. It's useful for us that the RU pathway is so bound up with private schools and county associations.
  20. Historically, the sport has never really produced enough players in its heartlands to support the professional game.
  21. You've had the last fifteen years and all of the years from 1895 to 1995. And in the intervening years you had the majority of focus. If the game's declined in the heartlands, it's because of a complete and total failure of the people there in spite of having the most favourable set up for rugby league in the country.
  22. Less then one full season of delivery.
  23. Hard to see how the game is in such a mess when you’ve got such deep thinkers as Degsy here acting Billy Big Balls at midday on a weekday.
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