Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 7:58 am  

orangeman wrote:

personally, Watching Wigan v Leeds 5 times a year is a massive bore and I suspect a 2nd tier with the likes of Haven, Fax, will generate better games and decent gates....

OK so late season thousands of telly fans look to who is on the Rugby league tonight, and it's a choice of Wigan.v.leeds or Whitehaven.v.Halifax

Wigan.v.Leeds is the fifth meeting this season but not all the other four matches were on TV anyway...

And of course thousands of fans don't remember the other two times this fixture was on as it was months ago, those that do, remember a top class cracker.......

Anyway Leeds.v.Wigan attracts only 10,000 fans at the gate as it's for the 5th. time, but Whitehaven only get 900 got their first clash with Halifax.....

Perhaps you can finish this off by suggesting which fixture would get the biggest TV audience with eyes on the adverts......

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 8:32 am  

Adam Pearson is quoted in the BBC website saying something akin to press the big red button to save the sport. He is right about vested interests and about needing to get bums on seats. Most of what he is quoted as saying has been said before with mergers and geographical spread being mentioned but no new ideas.
He seems to be going down the outside investment route but I cannot see us getting anything like the venture capital that TO have had.
I cannot help but think that we are in for a tough ride.

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 11:12 am  

Levrier wrote:

Neil Pearson is quoted in the BBC website saying something akin to press the big red button to save the sport. He is right about vested interests and about needing to get bums on seats. Most of what he is quoted as saying has been said before with mergers and geographical spread being mentioned but no new ideas.
He seems to be going down the outside investment route but I cannot see us getting anything like the venture capital that TO have had.
I cannot help but think that we are in for a tough ride.

Does that include his own.

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 11:24 am  

Levrier wrote:

Neil Pearson is quoted in the BBC website saying something akin to press the big red button to save the sport. He is right about vested interests and about needing to get bums on seats. Most of what he is quoted as saying has been said before with mergers and geographical spread being mentioned but no new ideas.
He seems to be going down the outside investment route but I cannot see us getting anything like the venture capital that TO have had.
I cannot help but think that we are in for a tough ride.

Who`s Neil Pearson?

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:11 pm  

Whatever new structure comes into play, it will only be for a few years anyway, before the inevitable re-restructure

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 12:31 pm  

Willzay wrote:

Does that include his own.

Perhaps some of those "self interested" clubs should take a long hard look at themselves, you know, those that wouldn't release players for the recent England game and those who seem to regularly fail to complete their fixtures.

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 2:08 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

Who`s Neil Pearson?

Sorry, Adam. Just not paying enough attention.

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 4:36 pm  

A lot of bluster and big statements from Pearson but nothing of any real substance. Again there’s a focus on cosmetic stuff. I keep going back to it, the quality of the product simply isn’t as good as 10/15 years ago and because of that you’re gonna get less bums on seats, less viewers and less revenue. Finding a way to low key improve the quality on the field should be the base of decision making. No need for radical knee jerk changes but subtle things to gradually steer a better long term path.

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 7:30 pm  

FlexWheeler wrote: A lot of bluster and big statements from Pearson but nothing of any real substance. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/07/super-league-clubs-transformed-adam-pearson-hull

FlexWheeler wrote: A lot of bluster and big statements from Pearson but nothing of any real substance. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/07/super-league-clubs-transformed-adam-pearson-hull

Re: New structure latest : Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:12 pm  

FlexWheeler wrote:

A lot of bluster and big statements from Pearson but nothing of any real substance. Again there’s a focus on cosmetic stuff. I keep going back to it, the quality of the product simply isn’t as good as 10/15 years ago and because of that you’re gonna get less bums on seats, less viewers and less revenue. Finding a way to low key improve the quality on the field should be the base of decision making. No need for radical knee jerk changes but subtle things to gradually steer a better long term path.

Great post. There absolutely isn't the need to panic. the crowds 15 years ago were 9K and that's down to 8K now but Bradford's demise is a big part of that and not a general malaise. If we keep going on about the "old days" being better, and talk about a "current malaise" we will create our own self fulfilling prophecy.

Just getting Bradford right again and relaunching SL2022 with the biggest and most ambitious clubs will do the trick as it's likely a lot of lapsed fans will fancy geting back out for regular live rugby league after this long lockdown.