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Sky Sports halving offer-What are the ramifications for Championship and Championship 1 clubs?

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LeeF

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55 minutes ago, whatmichaelsays said:

Surely the opposite is true? With reduced funding, the incentive for clubs to align more closely with Super League club on a dual reg / feeder club basis is even greater? 

No funding = no clubs = no place for DR etc unless SL fund the clubs. 

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LeeF

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55 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

Sorry I should have clarified it means they're screwed operating as they currently are. Most will have to adapt and most will.

I'm not really a fan of stale at all but equally don't think Super League money should be invested to make the championship interesting.

No funds = no clubs = stale 12

 

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53 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

Quite, if Fev aren't getting half a mill centrally but Leeds will offer incentives to run reserve players it'll become a no brainer

So Leeds (& others) won’t release a proportion to the other clubs because they can’t afford it but will directly support a club of their own choosing because they can afford that? 

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I love rugby league and hate talking it down at all but championship and league 1 has close to 0 value to tv 

We should have loved the fact our clubs received millions for a product worth next to nothing to tv and really focused on spending that well. Alas. 

It's frustrating for several clubs who if in SL would be similar to wakefield and salford over time, but we need to harness that many clubs will still get 2k @£20 which will keep the game at a good semi pro level and with outside investment a team could challenge to go up. (If SL decide on 12th team play off with Championship winners) 

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38 minutes ago, LeeF said:

So Leeds (& others) won’t release a proportion to the other clubs because they can’t afford it but will directly support a club of their own choosing because they can afford that? 

Yes, costs far less and means younger players develop. Instead of giving 500k to Fev or 350k to Halifax for example, they can keep that money. 

£20 million is cutting back the TV deal to the bone of what Super League clubs run on, they are not going to continue extravagantly donating money to the championship.

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1 hour ago, LeeF said:

So Leeds (& others) won’t release a proportion to the other clubs because they can’t afford it but will directly support a club of their own choosing because they can afford that? 

So 3/4 Championship clubs will be SL feeder clubs , completely dominating the rest , who's fans will quickly get dissoloutioned with , and will those feeder clubs fans ( and owners ) continue to support their SL reserves ? 

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Tommygilf

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2 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

So 3/4 Championship clubs will be SL feeder clubs , completely dominating the rest , who's fans will quickly get dissoloutioned with , and will those feeder clubs fans ( and owners ) continue to support their SL reserves ? 

Depends if P/R is maintained. 

LeeF's suggestion was that without Super League funding the championship clubs will die.

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3 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

Depends if P/R is maintained. 

LeeF's suggestion was that without Super League funding the championship clubs will die.

If the Championship and League 1 was faced with a pro rata 50% cut then this could be pretty much be achieved simply by removing the inequality in the Championship that sees the top few teams in the Championship getting considerably more than the rest. As people don't like clubs dominating the rest I'm sure people would have no objection to that. It would make for a much fairer Championship and and a more level playing field and many Championship clubs are doing fine with this lower level of funding as is.

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14 minutes ago, Damien said:

If the Championship and League 1 was faced with a pro rata 50% cut then this could be pretty much be achieved simply by removing the inequality in the Championship that sees the top few teams in the Championship getting considerably more than the rest. As people don't like clubs dominating the rest I'm sure people would have no objection to that. It would make for a much fairer Championship and and a more level playing field and many Championship clubs are doing fine with this lower level of funding as is.

A much more interesting championship too rather than half the games being entirely predictable!

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35 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

Depends if P/R is maintained. 

LeeF's suggestion was that without Super League funding the championship clubs will die.

It took a while but we got their in the end 

It's a structure debate 😂

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28 minutes ago, Damien said:

If the Championship and League 1 was faced with a pro rata 50% cut then this could be pretty much be achieved simply by removing the inequality in the Championship that sees the top few teams in the Championship getting considerably more than the rest. As people don't like clubs dominating the rest I'm sure people would have no objection to that. It would make for a much fairer Championship and and a more level playing field and many Championship clubs are doing fine with this lower level of funding as is.

Indeed 

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14 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

A much more interesting championship too rather than half the games being entirely predictable!

But potential for succssessful promotion diminished , as always , there is an equal and opposite negative reaction 

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2 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

It took a while but we got their in the end 

It's a structure debate 😂

You've made it so. Like I said LeeF's "everyone below the top tier will die without super league funding will die" only really applies if p/r is ditched too.

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1 minute ago, GUBRATS said:

But potential for succssessful promotion diminished , as always , there is an equal and opposite negative reaction 

So does the evidence of the past 6 years suggest that Super League investing heavily in the top of the championship to make "successful promotion" more likely has worked to grow revenues?

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8 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

You've made it so. Like I said LeeF's "everyone below the top tier will die without super league funding will die" only really applies if p/r is ditched too.

Once you make Championship SL reserve teams , you end P and R , they will most likely be the strongest ( well the 3 or 4 who would be chosen ) teams , but they lose the players who make them the best if they go up 

It is what it is , what the answer is , I don't know 

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Just now, Route66 said:

Supporters of those clubs outside super league wont ditch them because they go part-time they follow their team not the game itself, indeed in a more level competition attendances are more likely to improve 

That depends on what other changes we see along with it 

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