Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:55 am  

Budgiezilla wrote:

My 3: (unlikely as no. 1 may seem)

1) England beat Australia at least once
2) Leigh Centurions continue to be a major force in the championship.
3) Championship & League 1 clubs negotiate their own TV deal for the 2021 season, as Sky own the rights, but hardly show any championship games, and none from League 1.

Agree with your number 3 it would be good if channel 4 or bbc picked them up to show games

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:21 am  

Someday wrote:

Agree with your number 3 it would be good if channel 4 or bbc picked them up to show games

serious question, where is the value for any broadcaster in showing the lower leagues?

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:03 am  

IR80 wrote:

serious question, where is the value for any broadcaster in showing the lower leagues?

If I'd asked you of the value of showing a few blokes throwing arrows at a dartboard, watched by a load of pi55ed up fans a decade ago, you'd have said NOWT.
RL at what we consider 2nd tier level would/could be a nice little "filler" that could pick up a niche audience, sick of the razzamatazz of pro sports. I'd reckon a "joint" deal, with the clubs swapping a fee in year one in exchange for a broadcaster to produce and show games would be a fair way to test the waters.....




.....although Toronto paid to produce their own last year, gave them to sky and then sky wasn't happy to pay for them this year, so maybe not.

A Saturday afternoon game on FTA TV would be a start.

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:54 am  

AXE2GRIND wrote:

If I'd asked you of the value of showing a few blokes throwing arrows at a dartboard, watched by a load of pi55ed up fans a decade ago, you'd have said NOWT.
RL at what we consider 2nd tier level would/could be a nice little "filler" that could pick up a niche audience, sick of the razzamatazz of pro sports. I'd reckon a "joint" deal, with the clubs swapping a fee in year one in exchange for a broadcaster to produce and show games would be a fair way to test the waters.....




.....although Toronto paid to produce their own last year, gave them to sky and then sky wasn't happy to pay for them this year, so maybe not.

A Saturday afternoon game on FTA TV would be a start.

Darts isn't comparable to RL, Darts is played in pubs and homes (garages) up and down the UK, there is more TV coverage of fishing and golf than RL, two "sports" that have never interested me but have massive participation and following. RL is not popular other than with those of us brought up with it. IF Hull had had a decent football team when I was growing up I would never have been an FC supporter, but RL was the dominant sport, it was only when I moved to Liverpool I got interested in Football, I never thought I'd willingly wear red, but I have Hull FC and Liverpool FC running in my blood now. RL simply isn't commercial, the BBC would rather show athletics, and given audience figures, they are right to do so.

I wish RL had a broader audience, but fact is, it doesn't.

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:20 pm  

Cant really argue with that to be honest.

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Tue Dec 31, 2019 4:07 pm  

IR80 wrote:

serious question, where is the value for any broadcaster in showing the lower leagues?

An even more serious question, where is the value for any broadcaster in showing SL?

I would not be surprised if this has recently been mentioned in Sky towers.

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Tue Dec 31, 2019 4:35 pm  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

An even more serious question, where is the value for any broadcaster in showing SL?

I would not be surprised if this has recently been mentioned in Sky towers.

You know the answer, SL has no commercial value, hence gifting the sponsorship to Stobart previously. Look at the sponsors for Wigan, Leeds, Warrington, not one has a household name sponsor. RL has been in the shadows for a century, we enter a new decade where the light seems even further away. Our great new hope in TWP can't even play a home game for the first months of the season and all of their CC games will be away.I can guarantee you, mention TWP in a bar in Toronto and they will think you are talking little league Ice Hockey.

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Wed Jan 01, 2020 3:13 am  

FC to win the lot and gonads to the rest of yeh.

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Wed Jan 01, 2020 7:47 am  

giddyupoldfella wrote:

FC to win the lot and gonads to the rest of yeh.

Re: Your three 2020 New Year Wishes for rugby league : Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:46 am  

I’m quite disappointed that most people’s No 1 isn’t to beat the Aussies in the ashes.