BT are new to the world of sport through TV pay, but you have to know that they are twice the size in terms of market worth than sky. Also their revenues and profit blow sky's out of the water.

They wont go under, they may just fall away if they cant compete with Sky, if they can then Sky may se their subscriptions plummet. They hang onto the Premiership for dear life, lose that and sky are fecked.

The deal is good for RL, but it would be interesting to see if Big Nigel took the only offer on the table at this time.

Eamon certainly sounded upbeat about it on the radio last night, I just hope the RFL confirm the level of funding is what is rumoured on twitter. If thats the case, then it appears a good deal, especially in the current climate.

It thy will confirm it. It's a business deal so both sides will want to keep it as a rough estimate. Sky so it's difficult for competitors to have a base line to work from. The RFL to hedge competitors higher in the future.

In excess of the £200Million can be

£200,000,001

or

£299,000,000

That gives both sides something to work on in future negotiations.

It also keeps it vague for when internationals and CC deals come up.

Any non football sport that BT secure automatically suffers from a reduction in importance within the media and is "hidden away" more than any SKY sport.

For a game with as little coverage as we have, BT would have been an unmitigated disaster - let alone the fact that SKY would have then done as little as possible for the next three years to help the game.

According to Koukash, £300k a year more to SL clubs. Not the sort of increases we were hoping for if true.

Rising to 600k more per year from 2017, the 300k is an immediate raise. From 2017 the TV deal will cover the salary cap.