I’m looking forwards to your grand plan for a bigger pie as I can’t see the Master Bakers at Sky offering to increase the cost of ingredients.

Oh what a joyous meeting it’ll be when the clubs meet up to conclude the saga.

London in deep, deep trouble, Wakefield limping along after selling most of their crown jewels & now Bradford seemingly following Wakefield’s austerity line.

I still think there is a sting in the tail, and there will be tears before bed time for the Championship clubs

IMO sky will pay for a better product with more airtime, an elite 10 should produce better games and gates, a more evenly matched second tier should provide better games and a better atmosphere for TV
Remember they are giving airtime to championship RU in winter!!

Not enough to to give the clubs another £300k or something no.


Or we find the money from somewhere else.

We sell more. That’s the masterplan. If this is the market value of SL, the championships and championship 1, then it is the market value of those products. If we need more money then we need to sell other things aswell. More competitions, more access, different branding opportunities, more content.

There is two years before a big gap opens up at Sky from the champions league. Even if we don’t fill those specific slots whatever does is most likely to be moved from elsewhere in the schedule. There is a massive amount of programming to be filled.

Realistically we need to throw it all in, whatever Sky want, they can have. If they want a 9s comp, they can have it. If they want a new 13s comp, they can have it. If they want cameras in changing rooms, crack on. If they want players miked up go ahead.

Brian Barwick’s book of contacts needs to have a young, hungry, imaginative production company in there with some ideas that Sky want. If Sky want it, they will pay money for it. If we need to sell our souls to get it, then fsck it, we can party in hell with the rockstars.

That's more like it smokes bring on commerciality and the laws of the real world, nobody protected and everything is possible if commercially right

With those innovative views you’ll never get a gig a Red Hall

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The dinosaurs at the helm don’t have the mental capacity to look outside the box, hence the rumblings of half of the SL clubs.

I think you're right, but we'll only know in a couple of years time when the new structures that are being put in place fail to deliver

says the guy who doesn't attend any super league games but will go to world cup games that come round every 4 years

Your not are you? Your spending 1.6 million the cap is 1.8million isn't it?