Eddie

Superb (other than Coors and Doombar, as it’s the TRL forum I feel obliged to say something negative about an otherwise excellent initiative).

You’re making it up!

I don’t no, that was a final, if you look at their championship regular season attendances going back years a 4K crowd would be more than doubling them so a good step forward.

Yeah 638 must have been disappointing for Newcastle, especially with Newcastle Utd not playing last weekend and the Union team being away. Not sure how they can hope to sustain a full time team with attendances like that, hopefully they’ll pick up.

Do you know how much down on pre-covid sales? Sounds odd but I wonder if Saints winning it comfortably for the last three years has switched some people off a bit.

You think the merger and entering the English system is back on? If so, while that would be great for the English set up, where would it leave Elite 1?

Like it.

Düsseldorf is the best night out in Germany (from my 25 years experience of getting spannered in a decent number of cities over there), would be a great location for an NFL (or SL ) team.

The Jags only play 7 home games a year and there are thousands upon thousands of empty seats for those games. I’m certain Wembley (or Spurs) would be full every game, considering London series tickets sell out in minutes. I think they could have two UK franchises and it would be a success.

Also maybe C4 want to see what viewing figures were like before they try to buy more games. I do think it’s in Sky’s interest to have some FTA games, much like MOTD is good for the premier league (not that I watch it myself).

In England. In Scotland, Wales and NI they have a fair amount of their own programming (to be pedantic). But otherwise yes agreed.

Mate if channel 4 took it all on it would be the best thing that’s happened to RL in England since 1895, but they just have one channel so are unlikely to want to show more than one game a week live.

Toulouse Union’s game is on Sunday evening, hopefully it won’t impact on Olympique’s crowd too much, I think 4k would be considered a success.

Could end up being a similar crowd to Saints v CD, yet some on this forum think Cas should be kicked out of SL for having an old stadium.

Do you know how many teams will be in the Scottish league this year (think it was 5 last year?), when it’s starting etc?

Certainly, I rarely bother seeing what’s on Sky sports of an evening now as it’s the same every night; an NBA game, stateside racing, pro-football talk and then some other tripe.

Yeah Batley v Workington wouldn’t look great but I assume Premier will be picking and choosing their games.

How about banning everyone who says something negative about it, there’ll be about 5 people left on the forum.

No I didn’t realise that, I don’t use Twitter and tend to take things that journalists say at face value. Oh well, I wonder who they’ll get instead.

Blimey she’s certainly a well known celebrity, something of a coup, particularly if she knows much about the game.

The home shirt is worth the wait, love it.

Halifax haven’t even got today’s result on their website yet and Bradford haven’t filled in the attendance section on theirs.

Anyone know any of today’s championship attendances?

That’s a proper RL jersey.

They should let everyone in for free, including refunding members. Maybe force people in at gun point if there are any empty seats after that too.