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16 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Brilliant, I think Americans (if they actually watch it) will love Rugby League. How about a SL franchise in North America? 

With easy metres on every play pretty much all from north-south running and a pace where the next play follows in the blink of an eye, I wouldn't be so sure.  The Wolfpack had good reason to add a beer garden to their package.

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9 hours ago, Eddie said:

Brilliant, I think Americans (if they actually watch it) will love Rugby League. How about a SL franchise in North America? 

You know what SL would think in that regard Eddie.

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Another demonstration of how the club game is so much better prepared and resourced to offer more regular opportunities to showcase high quality RL to the casual and curious sports fan.

The NRL has demonstrated what showcasing a full weekly schedule of club football over the course of an approx 30 week season on both FTA and Pay TV can do for the health of the game. 

Hopefully news of all SL being broadcast in 2024 is done so live and with exclusive Kick Offs to start clawing back a 25+ year head start the NRL has.

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There`s been promises like this made before when broadcast deals have been done with Foxtel that haven`t materialised. Even when NRL got the jump on other sports by proceeding during COVID there was talk that Foxtel was going to showcase NRL in the U.S. to take advantage of a dearth of other live sport, this failed to materialise as well.

The only thing that I can think may have changed is the handing of the Murdoch reins to Lachlan. 

In another development there has been reports that the Murdochs have gone cold on the sports betting arm of their empire, who knows, maybe Lachlan sees more of a future in providing sports betting content rather than going down the sports betting market itself. 

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The Future is League

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9 hours ago, Bamboozle said:

In what capacity though?

a North American funded RL competition or a U.S. NRL team?

Don't forget that the game had the best chance ever to get a toe hold in the North American sports market with the Toronto Wolfpack and the game blew it.

No knight in shining armour came along to save the Wolfpack. Here, the US or Australia or New Zealand

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8 hours ago, The Future is League said:

Don't forget that the game had the best chance ever to get a toe hold in the North American sports market with the Toronto Wolfpack and the game blew it.

No knight in shining armour came along to save the Wolfpack. Here, the US or Australia or New Zealand

They did, but the SL clubs rejected him. It’s much safer to have bottom feeders like Trin about than a potential game changer. 

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There won't be 72 million Americans watching. That is a total fantasy. The average number of viewers  who actually watch Fox Sports 1 is only several hundred thousands.

Major League Rugby (the already established US rugby union competition) has an average audience of only 147,000!  https://ustvdb.com/shows/?page=12

But that is  less than watch Super League games on Sky, in a UK which has a population one fifth that of the USA.

This trip to Las Vegas is a cruel hoax. A total waste of NRL money. What the real purpose is I do not know.

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2 hours ago, Bradman Better said:

There won't be 72 million Americans watching. That is a total fantasy. The average number of viewers  who actually watch Fox Sports 1 is only several hundred thousands.

Major League Rugby (the already established US rugby union competition) has an average audience of only 147,000!  https://ustvdb.com/shows/?page=12

But that is  less than watch Super League games on Sky, in a UK which has a population one fifth that of the USA.

This trip to Las Vegas is a cruel hoax. A total waste of NRL money. What the real purpose is I do not know.

Come on, try harder and stop the lazy trolling.

Nobody is claiming 72 million viewers, it is a channel available to 72 million households - clearly only a fraction of those subscribe, just like with Sky Sports in the UK or Fox Sports in Australia.

A fast Google check will tell you the highest viewership for FS1 in 2022 was 4.9 million for a single event and I'm very suprised a low quality competition like MLR gets as many as 147k viewers.

The NRL have openly said why they are doing this, it is to make money, so who do you think is being subjected to a "cruel hoax"?

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8 hours ago, Eddie said:

They did, but the SL clubs rejected him. It’s much safer to have bottom feeders like Trin about than a potential game changer. 

I was a big TWP fan, but it felt to me like he was after a quick buck. Didn't he dial into video calls with SL on his phone from inside a car on at least one occasion? That cannot have helped.

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9 hours ago, londonrlfan said:

Well done the NRL, about time something like this happened. But you know, in true RL style, it will be a one off and nothing will come of it.

I believe they have signed up to do this for 4 years (although presumably with opt out clauses).

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3 hours ago, Bradman Better said:

 

This trip to Las Vegas is a cruel hoax. A total waste of NRL money. What the real purpose is I do not know.

The Aussies must surely be terrified of the game really taking off in the states, it would demote them to a second class RL entity within 30 years given the financial clout the yanks could exert.

So yeah, why are they doing it? 

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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Perhaps, just perhaps, the NRL, having seen how the game is progressing here, have a feeling they might have more 21st century success long term in the US than in Europe. Perhaps they are looking for signs, testing things out, that a top-down approach might be an alternative to bottom-up development.

How  long and expensive is a trip from Sydney to Las Vegas compared with a trip from Sydney to Manchester?

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