Stealth Comic wrote:
The biggest problem I see is funding. Is it possible to get enough tv money to fund it? How do you restructure the competitions to make up for the shortfall in games and the revenue it generates?
Funding would be from existing sky funding:
At the moment 14 clubs get £1.2 million each
10 SL1 clubs would still get £1.2 mil each
10 SL2 clubs would get the rest
= (1.2 x 4) / 10 each
= £480,00 (+ the £90,000 they already get) = £570,00
That should be enough to fund the core of a team on full time, the rest part time as is now.
TV coverage would be two SL1 and one SL2 games per week.
As for number of games; SL1 play each other twice then play SL2 once or you have a pooled start of season competition like we have now.
None of this will work unless Sky wants it to; it’s up to RL to find someone with vision and leadership to sell it to them.
Doooohhhhh, that’s where it falls down