Quote ="SmokeyTA"the other side of that coin is that it isnt that Leeds spent too much, its that they failed to bring enough in.'"
But that is how business works.. If you spend more than you bring in, you go bust.
Leeds UTD could have had another couple of successful years, and put money in the bank, as I would do with my business. They decided to 'speculate to accumulate'... and it didn't work. They spent money they didn't have. If they had the money, they wouldn't have gone bust. They were relying on future income to cover their costs.
Your argument isn't wrong, it is just, as you say, the flip-side of my same argument.
For my money, SuperTed has a good point.
Quote ="Superted"For me, the key to increasing the amount of media coverage, sponsorship and money generally flowing into the game is to increase the awareness of our sport to 'non-RL folk' - get more people to know about and take an interest in RL, and I think there's a fairly obvious way we can do this - but it will take a bold and risky move... Take less of a cut from Sky and insist on a level of 'free to air' coverage of the game - even if it's just 1 game a week and a highlights programme.
There'd be a significant drop in the TV rights money, but I think this would be short term pain for long term gain. The British public love live sport, our sport is great for TV, and there's minimal live sport available 'free to air'. A regular time slot on terrestrial TV could see us gain a huge national following....'"
It may not work, but we need to try something to get the figures, (which leads to money via advertising/TV revenue) up.
