Whats the problem Rovers fans jeez..... never seen you all so tetchy. A letter from Hudgell and instantly it's about what Hull fans think, what they are doing on thier board, who will be on here talking about a begging bowl.
barham red wrote:I can't come up with a figure but I will state it will eventually lose fans. My point was that the whether financially or in a time / effort expenditure the RFL seems more focussed on chasing an expansion / international game then it does looking after its core business. My points where the international game will never expand even if we royally thumped the aussies. The game will never thrive outside of its current areas, no nes interested.
Whilst time and effort is being expnded in these areas the fact one of the biggest teams in our game is going to the wall, a solution is needed and that should be the RFLs priority
Exactly my thoughts, it is not always advisable to consider diversification until your core business is stable and profibable, it something the RFL should have been giving prority to for the last few years imo, walk before you run springs to mind.
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dum-dum wrote:When you say "one of them", I assume you mean us. Your smart enough to know that none of us could know how much if any, likewise with Bradford, Catalan, Salford, Wakefield and Crusaders.
So why bother with this then?
cravenpark1 wrote:I agree with neil it is time the rugby league did get of its fat a..e and did something like stop propping up teams like London and look after the rest of the teams
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Seventies red wrote:Exactly my thoughts, it is not always advisable to consider diversification until your core business is stable and profibable, it something the RFL should have been giving prority to for the last few years imo, walk before you run springs to mind.
They probably look at the profits of the RU world cup and are told to expand for bigger tv rights.
But the fans want it small time so I don't why they bother.
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The Reason wrote:Hi Andy
The Rugby Football League are in the process of reviewing the video that you are referring to. We do not condone behaviour of this nature and have contacted the player’s employer, Hull F.C., who have confirmed that they are dealing with the incident under their club rules.
Sheldon wrote:They probably look at the profits of the RU world cup and are told to expand for bigger tv rights.
But the fans want it small time so I don't why they bother.
I'd love to have a thriving international game like ru but I'm a realist and understand it will never happen. People will not swith onto a new sport like that.
The only way it would work is if a hybrid rl/ru sport was devised akin to 20-20 cricket. even thats a long shot.
Sheldon wrote:They probably look at the profits of the RU world cup and are told to expand for bigger tv rights.
But the fans want it small time so I don't why they bother.
I'm not a big fan of RU but one thing i will say in its defence is that it has a far superior maketing department than the RFL, it never ceases to amaze me that the RFL have appeared to blow so many opportunities to aggressively promote the game of rugby league in the past. Its marketing strategy has been at best very averarge for many years imo.
We had a big international game, we didn't try to expand it well enough.
Could you imagine some of our fans reaction if they lost players mid season for internationals?
RU fans seem to accept the games bigger than the clubs.
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The Reason wrote:Hi Andy
The Rugby Football League are in the process of reviewing the video that you are referring to. We do not condone behaviour of this nature and have contacted the player’s employer, Hull F.C., who have confirmed that they are dealing with the incident under their club rules.
Seventies red wrote:I'm not a big fan of RU but one thing i will say in its defence is that it has a far superior maketing department than the RFL, it never ceases to amaze me that the RFL have appeared to blow so many opportunities to aggressively promote the game of rugby league in the past. Its marketing strategy has been at best very averarge for many years imo.
Of course it does, they have educated people with great networks running it.
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The Reason wrote:Hi Andy
The Rugby Football League are in the process of reviewing the video that you are referring to. We do not condone behaviour of this nature and have contacted the player’s employer, Hull F.C., who have confirmed that they are dealing with the incident under their club rules.
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barham red wrote:I can't come up with a figure but I will state it will eventually lose fans. My point was that the whether financially or in a time / effort expenditure the RFL seems more focussed on chasing an expansion / international game then it does looking after its core business.
My points where the international game will never expand even if we royally thumped the aussies. The game will never thrive outside of its current areas, no nes interested.
Whilst time and effort is being expnded in these areas the fact one of the biggest teams in our game is going to the wall, a solution is needed and that should be the RFLs priority
Expansion isn't being targeted for the lols - it's being targeted as the only viable method of growing the game and thereby increasing income. A game played only along the M62 corridor is less attractive to sponsors and TV companies. There's also little evidence that the RFL is actually ignoring 'heartlands' teams or offering them less assistance than 'expansion' teams, with the exception of a few tweaks to the quota rules.
The RFL already loaned Bradford a hefty sum to bail them out of what they were assured was a temporary cash flow problem. Guess what? It wasn't temporary. They then bought the lease to Odsal to help them out again, and STILL Bradford's board couldn't make the books balance. What else were they supposed to do? Falling crowds at Odsal and their BOD's serial failure to spend within their means has nothing at all to do with 'chasing expansion'.
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