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3 hours ago, scotchy1 said:

A cc finals day that was also the womens cc final and kids CC final would be fine by me.

But that's obviously and fundamentally different from what we have here

First mention of the Women's CC final being at Wembley , and introduced into the debate ?

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5 hours ago, aj1908 said:

Maybe English clubs could fill up those empty terraces in a similar way with people who like to chat and drink a beer and watch some of the game

 Nay aj, watch SOME of the game, it has my 100% attention from kick off to final whistle the after game debate amongst my contemporaries gives no leeway to those not up to speed, it's no wonder the attendance in Aus is so quiet if their minds and discussions are are on other things, and it is far cheaper to stay in the pubs and have a few scoops  other than go to the game and but overpriced slops.

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26 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

Picked this up after a five hour absence, must say some of you guy's have a lot more patience than I have by continuing in discussion with Total RL's equivalent of Jeremy Corbyn, loads of waffle but nothing sensible coming out.

Tommy's not that bad ?

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4 minutes ago, Wellsy4HullFC said:

The leagues are based on the sexes, not the genders (although I don't subscribe to the idea that there are all these new genders, but that's another debate).

People can believe they are whatever gender they like, but if they want to play rugby league they either stick to one of the 2 sexes or create their own competition if there's enough interest. They have somewhere to play; whether they like it or find it acceptable to them is their choice.

(I have no idea how it came on to extra genders by the way - talk about argument of extremes!)

Who takes things to the ' extreme ' on here ? 

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P&R has only been going for 1 season!!!! 

The SL relegation battle & the Championship promotion battle are interesting and exciting, that will grow and grow season on season. 

Scotchio goes on as though P&R has been about for plenty of time. It's not even had a chance to reveal it's true potential yet. 

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10 minutes ago, Smudger06 said:

P&R has only been going for 1 season!!!! 

The SL relegation battle & the Championship promotion battle are interesting and exciting, that will grow and grow season on season. 

Scotchio goes on as though P&R has been about for plenty of time. It's not even had a chance to reveal it's true potential yet. 

Championship coverage also began when there was P&R in 2007. It was the beginning of the Thursday night rugby slot.

Sky began to lose interest not long after franchising came about and Premier then picked it up.

So to imply there was more Championship on television because of franchising ignores the fact that there was weekly Championship rugby (or National League 1 back then) on Sky before it.

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8 hours ago, Wellsy4HullFC said:

Championship coverage also began when there was P&R in 2007. It was the beginning of the Thursday night rugby slot.

Sky began to lose interest not long after franchising came about and Premier then picked it up.

So to imply there was more Championship on television because of franchising ignores the fact that there was weekly Championship rugby (or National League 1 back then) on Sky before it.

There are loads of ways this can be presented/spun. 

TWP games were shown on TV when they were in the Championships, now they are in SL Sky won't be showing them. And Sky also won't be showing Catalans. So all the loss of coverage is down to SL. 

Of course that would be dishonest and missing context, but that seems to be fine here. 

We could also acknowledge that the removal of licensing coincided with the largest TV deal in history and more games televised than ever. But again, that would be lacking context. 

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10 hours ago, Tommygilf said:

Never voted for him don't worry it was purely academic interest

Aye. "Made your excuses and left" ... a likely story.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)

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Just now, scotchy1 said:

Promotion and relegation has been in the league since 2014. We have had 6 seasons of it in a row. 

No to mention the years prior to 2009 when we didnt have it.

Super 8's are you having a laugh. That was an overcomplicated, bolt on competition. 

We have had 1 season of P&R, prior to that was a decade of no P&R. 

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1 minute ago, scotchy1 said:

So despite having teams promoted and relegated there was no promotion and relegation. 

Not in the straight forward, traditional sense of P&R. That system dragged on the season, was uninspiring & hard to understand for a casual or newbie to the sport. 

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17 minutes ago, scotchy1 said:

But there obviously was promotion and relegation, and it didn't drive interest.

And the years prior to franchising? When there was this exact model? We had that for years, why did we still have more championship RL broadcast when there wasnt P+R than when there was?

Super 8's was a small step in the right direction after the complete disaster of the closed shop. 

Ways to consume the sport and generate interest have changed beyond belief in the last decade. Proper, pure, simple P&R is required to exploit new oppertunities rather than miss the boat yet again through a stale closed shop. 

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1 hour ago, Dave T said:

There are loads of ways this can be presented/spun. 

TWP games were shown on TV when they were in the Championships, now they are in SL Sky won't be showing them. And Sky also won't be showing Catalans. So all the loss of coverage is down to SL. 

Of course that would be dishonest and missing context, but that seems to be fine here. 

We could also acknowledge that the removal of licensing coincided with the largest TV deal in history and more games televised than ever. But again, that would be lacking context. 

There must be a job awaiting you as a spin doctor for one of the candidate's in Labour leadership campaigns David.

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