Quote: wrencat1873 "
Are you suggesting that the sport should wither and die ?
Without additional investment in the sport (and I'm not suggesting that Canada is the answer, far from it), the sport is going to suffer a slow lingering death.
Our inability to attract new fans toy the game of RL has been a constant for the last 50 years.
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I am suggesting the sport does what it has always done best and that is to survive good sir.
In fact it survives ONLY because of the SKY TV deal. Would you like to consider where we would be had SKY or anyone else not bought the rights in 1996???
NA do not develop players or bring us TV money, France develop very few players and bring us no TV money - they likely have to go if the TV deal drops.
We are a corner shop who attracts a lot of local customers including the odd rich one, so we have to keep selling until even the locals don't want it.
That's the reality - and the problem is sending players to NA and France, and dropping clubs here for them to play in SL, will only shut the corner shop more quickly.
I'm a believer in letting people decide what they want to do and spend their money on, as long as 120K people along the M62 and SKY want to pay us money we provide the service but as for "expansion" forget it, the demand for RL is the M62, so sell to the real customers - don't sell it out to France and North America.
