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| Think there's more pressure on SL to play behind closed doors as they receive the biggest portion of their annual funding via the sky contract and if they aren't playing then conceivably Sky could refuse to pay or claim back payments already paid, same situation as premier league. That's less of an issue for championship where our portion of tv money is a much percentage of our income streams. But the flip side is that matchday income is a much bigger element of our incomings so can't see how playing behind closed doors can be viable. As I understand it idea of the government money is that clubs ca put claims in based on shortfalls in income due to lockdown based on projections given to RFL before season started. So say we budgeted for 2k attendance and x amount of food/drink sales on matchday. In theory we could deduct the number of season ticket holders from the 2k figure then claim the remainder + food and drink income from RFL. But remember this is only a loan and not a grant so it would need paying back at some point. Can't see that 16 million going very far if SL and championship clubs are putting claims in on that basis over a protracted period of paying behind closed doors.
Anther thing to consider is how does club deal with season ticket holders if they play behind closed doors? Refunds for missed games ( unlikely given money probably already used) or some form of cheaper ticket for next year based on number of games behind closed doors or just expect Ticket holder to grin an bear it.
Only option I can think of that could appease ST holders and cost club little is to put all behind closed games on Bulls TV and give them free access. They could charge a small fee for those of us who would normally be walkup support to generate a little income too.
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| goes without saying that SKYwould have to agree to streams, It would have to be a league wide thing. Clubs need to offset the lost match attendance income any way they can for rest of season. Think SL clubs are in a slightly better position as at least their player wages are covered by SKY payment. At our level SKY money doesn't cover player wages bill. Could easily see this season just being written fat every level below SL to cut costs and restart in 2021.
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1271.jpg Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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| Given the circumstances, I can't think why Sky wouldn't agree to lower league games being streamed, either live or on delay. They pay, basically for SL games, ours is just an add on with little, if any, noticeable cost attached. They have no wish to show them but I'd guess they also have no wish to see our clubs go to the wall. They would gain nothing if that were to happen.
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| Football's league 2 clubs have voted to end the season. Pretty obvious why when you look at the comments of the Stevenage owner Phil Wallace who told BBC Sport: "We have 10 games to play ….. It would cost us £140,000 for the tests, we would have to bring players out of furlough and comply with a 47-page health and safety document regarding sterilisation of stadiums etc.
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| Quote: Mr Dog "Football's league 2 clubs have voted to end the season. Pretty obvious why when you look at the comments of the Stevenage owner Phil Wallace who told BBC Sport
You'd have to think most of that would apply to us - in spades.
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Quote: Bulliac "You'd have to think most of that would apply to us - in spades.'"
And there are plenty of reports on Fauci's assessment on the possibility of the US' American Football season taking place eg https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... spreading/
Plus looking at the Bundesliga restart that's a pretty expensive exercise and Major League Baseball's proposals also look costly and complex https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/291 ... distancing
I'm not sure SL can afford to do it properly but I wouldn't be surprised if the Government allow some half harrised plan to go ahead.
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Quote: Bulliac "You'd have to think most of that would apply to us - in spades.'"
And there are plenty of reports on Fauci's assessment on the possibility of the US' American Football season taking place eg https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... spreading/
Plus looking at the Bundesliga restart that's a pretty expensive exercise and Major League Baseball's proposals also look costly and complex https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/291 ... distancing
I'm not sure SL can afford to do it properly but I wouldn't be surprised if the Government allow some half harrised plan to go ahead.
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