Lol.

Looks like I spoke too soon.

That's more like the RLFANS we've come to know!

He's merely taken a random and irrelevant neo-factoid from another sport completely out of context and tried to manipulate it to demonstrate that Rugby League is in some way failing. You not familiar with that at all?

Crikey, how did you survive the winter of 62/63? All those fixture changes at short notice. You must have been livid at it all.

That much?

That's £310 million over the 5 years.

The exclusive deal and exclusive bidding process just gets better and better!

I think you're confusing me with someone else

Oh dear



Not sure where to begin with your post. Comparing it to the the world biggest sporting brand, even GF is more realistic than that



I'm not brilliant with percentages but i make it around a 60% increase in money (help me out WE!)

Inflation won't go up that much i'm sure!

Anyone see Microsofts profit this year, compare that to the RFL's, good god what a mickey mouse organisation they are.

I criticise the RFL when i think they deserve criticising and applaud when they do well. This deal is absolutely superb for the sport! Some say we could have waited until deal ran out to allow BT to bid. That's a dangerous game IMO, BT are new on to the scene and are literally throwing money at sports at this moment in time, unfortunately our deal iwas 3 years away from expiring and a lot can change. BT have paid nearly a £1billion for CL rights. If viewing figures aren't great, BT won't be throwing money around like they are now and may not even be on the scene anymore. That means SKY won't have to "up" their bid and we wouldn't have got an offer anywhere near £200million.

Overall a good increase, as much as anybody could have hoped for, the devil will be in the detail as to what the sport does with it

I hope we dont see complacency because of this

Glad to see Championship live coverage ending for this year, so who owns the ' highlights coverage, time for the clubs to put something together themselves if it is available

As do a great many posters on here. I suspect that until the true amount is known, there will be sceptics, but this deal represents something the game has lacked for some time, in LONG TERM security.
2 More years of 18 million for SL before the 40 million a year kicks in (122% increase I believe) means the game can really get to grips with building itself a conciseness across the UK, increasing attendances and participation and look at rewarding development of English SL standard players.
I'd hope that the BBC have been served notice as to their "ownership" of the SL show highlights deal and if they don't deliver in 2014 and 15, then this vital gateway to FTA audiences is given to someone else....

Who knows how long the "threat" of BT sport will hang over sky? It's not like it hasn't been through this all before with itv sport ... Eventually the honeymoon period of being able to go out and bid whatever they want on any sport is going to stop at BT sport, namely when they realise they have to somehow recoup that 900million for championsleague games! Getting a deal done before the bubble bursts is surely a good thing!

It used the tools that were currently available (as has been said there was never going to be a better time than this to force through a deal) to get the best deal we've ever got - funds all the changes that were forced through, and still leaves a bigger pot for the top teams, we might even have prize money this year!

Would more of been nice? Of course, isn't it always? Is it the best deal we could of hoped for? It certainly seems it!

Just need to announce a salary cap increase for the 2017 season and were set (I'm not asking a lot a modest one would be great! £2million with home grown capped is more than enough!)

So you want a £350K cap increase then or 21.21%.
Do you know what modest means and do you realise that your idea would just mean that most of the clubs would be right back to where they are now? That being spending money they don't have trying to keep up instead of spending it on infrastructure to improve the sport for it's hopefully more healthy future.