Seems promising on the face of it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... deal-ever/ I think the last deal was £900k per year, this is suggesting double that so around £1.8M. An extra £75k to each of the clubs will go down well I imagine. Good to see it in place well ahead of the start of the new season and follows on the back of Dacia extending their deal too.

Seems promising on the face of it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... deal-ever/ I think the last deal was £900k per year, this is suggesting double that so around £1.8M. An extra £75k to each of the clubs will go down well I imagine. Good to see it in place well ahead of the start of the new season and follows on the back of Dacia extending their deal too.

Quote ="Alffi_7"Seems promising on the face of it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... deal-ever/ I think the last deal was £900k per year, this is suggesting double that so around £1.8M. An extra £75k to each of the clubs will go down well I imagine. Good to see it in place well ahead of the start of the new season and follows on the back of Dacia extending their deal too.'" this could pay for extending to full 14 teams and getting rid of these stupid loop fixtures.

Quote ="Alffi_7"Seems promising on the face of it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... deal-ever/ I think the last deal was £900k per year, this is suggesting double that so around £1.8M. An extra £75k to each of the clubs will go down well I imagine. Good to see it in place well ahead of the start of the new season and follows on the back of Dacia extending their deal too.'" this could pay for extending to full 14 teams and getting rid of these stupid loop fixtures.

My read of it is that SL wants to expand to 14 clubs, but was restricted by the current TV deal and not wanting to dilute the money to more clubs. I agree I'd like to see expansion to 14 at the next TV deal

Great news, been a good few weeks for the game and a nice positive article in one of the Nationals to go with it. Little surprise there's few comments on this topic.

Quote ="Alffi_7"Seems promising on the face of it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... deal-ever/ I think the last deal was £900k per year, this is suggesting double that so around £1.8M. An extra £75k to each of the clubs will go down well I imagine. Good to see it in place well ahead of the start of the new season and follows on the back of Dacia extending their deal too.'" Great news.

Quote ="Alffi_7"Seems promising on the face of it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... deal-ever/ I think the last deal was £900k per year, this is suggesting double that so around £1.8M. An extra £75k to each of the clubs will go down well I imagine. Good to see it in place well ahead of the start of the new season and follows on the back of Dacia extending their deal too.'" Great news.

How does this deal compare to those of a few years ago (prior to ludicrous Stobart free of charge debacle)?

On the face of it good news, certainly heading in the right direction.

However its the SKY TV deal that's the one which will see which way the sport is heading. Would love to see a massive hike in income from the television rights. Let's hope.

I had a search but couldnt find anything regards the Engage deal, which I think as the biggest deal prior to this one, I have in my head that was approx £1.3m but couldnt swear to it.

The TV deal will indeed be the big one. I'm hoping to see an increase in value on the back of more games being shown live, it's critical to the future of the game.

Think everyone wants 14 clubs except 11 of the 12 clubs. Toulouse and one other probably Toronto (not convinced by Toronto, could all fall apart too easily, and not earned there stripes like Toulouse a second french club long overdue.)

It’s actually 10 of the 12 clubs as saints and Warrington have nothing to fear

Not quite sure where that one comes from as the Salford born multi millionaire has been asked to get involved with Salford since John Wilkinson was at the helm, he would rather see us go to the wall than help with a single penny.

His one and only interest beside making money is MUFC

Wasn’t Saints season brought to a grinding halt last year by a French team...yeah right nothing to fear

Can't he love rugby league, but not love Salford?

Font kniw what your talking about, i was refering to 11 of the 12 current clubs who voted for this loop fixture system.

They should release the actual amount. The secrecy is unnecessary.

they won't release attendances unless they want to....I doubt we'll know how exceptional this is until they release their accounts.....by which stage we'll have forgotten the "spin"we swallowed.....like the record attendance for a weekend.......which we couldn't beat last weekend when we had one game with nearly 45% of that record...

That's what I was saying - that I think SL wants to have a 14 club league but understandably not right now, when it would mean splitting the same money among more teams.

??? Where's the other £1.8m+ coming from?

I imagine Fred won't want the details sharing as he sponsors a number of sports and releasing details could potentially cause him problems if other sports start demanding whatever he has paid us.

Scrap that Multi Millioaire tag I've never really looked into his wealth before but it's safe to say he is a bilionaire. And interestingly whilst "Rugby League Fan" Done has never helped us out with a single dime the second richest dude in the region John Wittaker the Chairman of "Peel Holdings" joint owners of Salford's stadium with Salford City Council has also helped with not one dime.

Their choice of co but don't give me that "Rugby League Fan" BULLS*IT !!


These are the richest people in Greater Manchester and Cheshire


2. John Whittaker (property mogul)
Worth: £2.25bn

3. Fred and Peter Done (betting tycoons)
Worth: £1.35bn

Annoying isn’t it. Trinity have similar issues though ours are not billionaires to be fair. They all talk the talk but it took a bloke from Hull to walk the walk.

Not pouring their money into a club doesn’t mean they aren’t a fan or don’t care but at the end of the day they’re business men and will judge it with their heads as much as their hearts. Steve Parkin is a huge Leeds Utd fan, has a box at Elland Road and goes to most games when he can, worth over £100m but has resisted calls from fans over the years to bid for Leeds when they’ve been going through their various ownerships because he said owning a football club is a bad investment.

Did not say it would pay entirely for 2 more teams, but its a step toward that especially if we can get a deal from Sky to fund 2 more teams. Sadly some chairman if we do get an increase will want to keep the extra for them selves.