Hello

Could be interesting to see the response to "hookers needed".......

Damn, my sarcasm detector was having an off day

Sorry Blues Ox, but that's not exciting to anyone outside of that bubble. Exciting would be significant investment from an ambitious investor/investors which was put into a club in a location that stirred media interest both nationally and globally. But best wishes to Huddersfield, I genuinely hope that they can somehow increase local interest.

Scoreline sits well with the narrative of the sport shrinking rather than growing to be fair.....

Hello to all. Apologies if this has been posted but I haven't seen it. The Hurricanes website describes their crowd against Crusaders as being decent. Can anybody please tell me the attendance, I can't find it.

I think that there may have been a late payment after COVID kicked in prior to them pulling the plug. I do know that they were paying the maximum salary cap and requested to extend the cap showing that they wanted to spend even more money. Of course, non payment of wages is a real bad one though

Which was as we all know a consequence of the unforeseeable COVID and it's subsequent effect on revenue streams. Toronto, naturally, hadn't taken into this into account

I'm going to stick my neck out and say Crusaders to remain unbeaten.

How do you think that football went from just being played on England to dominating the world? How do you think that union amongst other sports is spreading so much around the world? The excuses for the failure to spread RL are hard to take

Great post, thank you.

What are the TV viewing figures like this season? Wondering how successful IMG is so far in spreading interest in the sport

Further indication that the general plan towards reducing the footprint of RL in the northern hemisphere to the area of a postage stamp is working well

We can look for all the in-depth excuses that we like, and make comparisons with "lucky" other sports. At the end of the day, though, RL seems to blow all opportunities to further itself - except for Austrlia and maybe NZ

Dave, you're a poster who I regard well and I'm sure that you understand my point. I particularly agree with your final paragraph, and that kind of completes the circle for me, aim low and you will reap low.

Sponsorship is almost universally directly proportional to the number of people who see it, that is the answer. Businesses are only willing to pay for the relative exposure, whether that is the number of people in the stadium or the number of people viewing on screens