Smudger06

Instead of receiving a loan that needs to be repaid, angel investors get a share of the company's ownership, usually in the form of stock. Many angel investors actively participate in the business, offering guidance, advice, and connections. Etc etc......

Oh ok

Controlling a successful international calender is where the big money is.....

The NRL are basically in the role of angel investor and IMG are only in partnership for another 10 years, afterwards is when NRL will want to start getting serious chunks of their investment back. IMG is involved in many complex partnerships as you will know.

Same I should imagine, they are within the legally separate RL Commercial entity and will probably be happy NRL are probably coming in with expertise will make their partnership more valuable.

I have been asked by many people to share the plan I presented to Andrew Abdo at the NRL. I don't wish to do that as it was specifically sent to the NRL to garner interest in purchasing or helping to purchase the Super League. It would be disrespectful. ~ Richardson

Found his document ?

They are following Shane Richardson's proposal from 2021 that he sent to ARLC, the document is public. Makes sense bcos they will want to fund tier 2 Clubs with decent grants as per their own state leagues. So all this goes back alot further than Vegas meetings, Vegas meetings happened bcos some SL Clubs decided to run with Richardsons plan as there's few other options. I reckon the 12 academy sides would be placed as part of the tier 2 sides as well with their own ringfenced funding element.....

They will allow 12 Clubs ONLY in the 2nd tier which will be like the NSW Cup & QLd Cup. The other 13 Clubs will have to dissolve or go Amateur.......

True, you'd have thought someone would have opened their gob though.... They get 45% out of EuroLeague Basketball let's hope it's not that much.

What percentage are IMG getting from the deals cut ??? Anyone know that ? This 400k isn't a major drama surely! The digital work seems to be well worth it, more social media accounts have gotten blue ticks and pretty much all clubs have noticeable follow increases. It's defo something clubs could have and should have done themselves but couldn't be arsed over a decades long time frame since the Super League War / rise of social media....

Exactly why the mighty NFL have not relocated a team into London yet after many years of staging these games, even though they would love to even they just can't be sure....... But RL needs a team in the largest city and capital this day and age that's for sure.....

Anyway I'm for this. I want to see England v Australia have competitive balance and go from strength to strength, hopefully absolutely brutal battles with passion and true grit in abundance for the whole world to go f@ck me wtf.....that's intense. Etc. And the clubs, including and in fact especially the SL elements are incompetent and oblivious to what's required beyond their own share of the pot.....so a proven RL organisation that's going to be somewhat impartial is defo needed.

One thing you need is memberships. Transparent memberships published at that. As per the NRL. Then you can go to broadcasters and sponsors and say these are concrete baseline figures correct on our core support alone..... So you pay a fee and that fee makes you a Club member, been a Club member allows you to purchase a season ticket 20% off or whatever and like 25% off match tickets or what you feel like.....the main thing is to get healthy, accurate memberships lists jacked up to show potential stakeholders whether media or sponsors. Stuff like this the NRL will get sorted. Instead we have secret squirrel stuff.....stakeholders thinking naw this is probs b/s etc when they are approached and figures are whispered into their ears.

Basically the Governing Body Share held by the RFL will be taken over by the ARLC with the RFL getting squeezed out. Then 5 current clubs also getting the boot in favour of Toulouse and London ~ Leigh, Wakefield, Castleford, Huddersfield & Salford. Salford having no chance leaves the last slot for 1 of 4 (Leigh, Cas, Wakey, Huds) RFL Championship loses status as 3rd best comp in the world, which it pretty much has recently due to cuts in player spending due to no P&R and reverts to NSW and Queensland Cup status with the RFL having role & status much like NSWRL, QRL. Something like that, Probs...... £20m GBP,?? 12 current Clubs take £1m each including ones getting booted...and RFL takes £8m should seal the deal. ?? NRL [ARLC] easy recoups that in about an 8 year time frame. Jobs a good un.