nadera78
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25 minutes ago, Big Picture said:
No it doesn't and hasn't. Low ratings were the reason why Sky cut their rights fee in 1999, and they're the reason why SL lost the Saturday night slot it had originally and was shunted to Thursdays instead. Low ratings are the reason Sky put the game on two years' notice to prove its value or else too.
That's not true at all. The reduction in money in 1999 was a correction to the overpayment in 1995 (which was a result of them wanting GB on their side for the SL War in Australia), the fact that we hadn't followed through on our plans to re-structure and that we had no other broadcaster to turn to. Nothing to do with ratings at all. You're just making things up.
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4 hours ago, Big Picture said:
Low ratings, that's why.
For most of those 25 years there was no indication from Sky that they might pull out, but now that the game's been given two years to proves its value or else that indication exists.
Nonsense. RL gives Sky good ratings, always has done.
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Why would Sky drop RL? It makes no sense. We give them 8 months of good viewing figures 2 or 3 nights a week, they don't have to do any work to generate an audience, and at a price point they obviously dictate (and it's a sport where most clubs and fans would accept whatever pennies are thrown at them).
I've spent the last 25 years listening to fans saying "what if Sky pull out?" It aint happening folks.
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24 minutes ago, Toby Chopra said:
I think all the things you list that need to be in place for a Welsh SL team show why it's a real long shot, and probably not worth anyone's money at this point in time.
But your paragraph on a south Wales SL academy feeding into existing SL clubs is spot on. Run that for 5 years and you'll have a half decent Welsh team that you can do something with, and participation in and visibility of league in Wales should grow from there. Then, maybe, a decade from now a SL franchise comes back on the table.
At the moment, the Welsh U16s put together some good performances but the players often return to union because the only RL option involves relocating to the north of England to join a SL academy at 16. A Welsh academy might alleviate that, or at least make relocating a more palatable option if they're a few years older when it comes time to make a decision. We'd still lose a few, no doubt, but it would certainly help.
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Oh look, it's Mr Whippet. Come along to tell us why RL will never amount to anything outside the M62.
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34 minutes ago, sweaty craiq said:
They seem to forget the “heartlands” is similar to Queensland and NSW combined when talking expansion and sponsorship, the low hanging fruit is there to harvest
And you've done such a wonderful job of cultivating that area over the past 127 years.
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1 hour ago, gingerjon said:
Newcastle and Coventry (10,000 on a Friday night for *Scotland*) show how much missed potential there is in this tournament - caused entirely it seems by believing that we have to sell and resell to the same core areas of the game.
You could say the exact same thing about English RLs entire approach over the past 10 years.
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Games involving the Kumuls are always good fun to watch. And the Kukis always give it a go too. There is perhaps a bit more freedom in the way these teams play.
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A few Brazilians on display at Post Office Rd. Nice.
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PNG for the win. Always.
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20 minutes ago, Damien said:
I dont think that's fair. Coaching Argentina is his primary job and I presume he is under contract and well paid for doing so. Lebanon is obviously more a labour of love, he will be getting peanuts for doing this, as is his passion for Rugby League and he is obviously a RL fan at heart. As is there is 2 days in between and I can't see why he can't do both.
I'm sure I read in the Guardian article that the games were on the same day. If they're not, then there's no problem.
As to the rest, he took the Lebanon job first, anything else should fit in around that.
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The big question for me, around Cheika, is what he does when the fixtures clash. That will be telling. He was desperate to take the Lebanon job, went out of his way to get it when no-one in union wanted him, and made a big song and dance about his family, etc, etc. And it's the World Cup! If he disappears to coach some rah-rah team in a friendly match then that's all I need to know about him.
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1 hour ago, Archie Gordon said:
One thing that continues to bother me about the Emirates semi is that you can buy a £110 ticket for a front row seat or a £70 ticket for the very back row. I wanted to buy tickets in the £70-85 range but wasn't prepared to risk getting a seat I hadn't chosen. At those prices, leaving it to the organisers to put you where they want is madness. I hope it doesn't put others off.
This is a bugbear of mine too. It is, frankly, astonishing that you can't pick your own seat, and I find it hard to believe that no-one involved in organising this event brought it up as an issue beforehand so it must have been a conscious choice on behalf of Dutton and co.
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That leopard's high as a kite
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4 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
Kevin Sinfield can't leap out of the line again this time.
Don't, I still haven't recovered from that game. Not sure I ever will.
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14 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
Reporting 35,000 already sold for the Emirates semi final.
If I can't get in because I leave it to the last minute (I won't know if I can get there until a few days before) then I will be properly delighted.
Now let's sit back and watch England lose in the 1/4s.
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47 minutes ago, Eddie said:
Kenilworth Road would have been decent, I’d have come down and met you for a pint.
Hahaha! Kenilworth Rd! You're funny!
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Great game, but PNG got stiffed there.
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Terrible refereeing
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Big blow for PNG to lose Coates to injury. They're also missing two other outside backs in Gebbie and Ngutlik. Dan Russell moves from 2nd Row to the wing, which is a double blow because it means he's one of their biggest forwards and they're up against a massive Tongan pack.
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13 minutes ago, GeordieSaint said:
Things like this are unforgivable. And it's not even a one-off.
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51 minutes ago, Tosh said:
Potentially this is the game of the tournament so far.
PNG have the best RL Jersey bar none.
Which you can't buy for this tournament...
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I have some very, very close friends from Tonga, and I've loved watching their RL rise over the past few years, but this is rugby league and I can't ever bring myself to cheer against Papua New Guinea. So c'mon the Kumuls!
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I like the idea that the BBC, or any other broadcaster, would allow some untrained RL ref to operate their output. When I worked at the old BBC TV Centre very few people were even able to access the actual broadcast area, and without the appropriate clearance you actually had to be let in by someone already on the inside.
The problem at a couple of games was quite obviously that so many fixtures over the weekend has required the use of tv directors with little or no experience of RL and who therefore don't quite understand what the video ref needs.
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Free international RL at Fev this Thursday
in The General Rugby League Forum
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There's been a small domestic comp for a couple of years now.