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!

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....

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.

Oh Bugger!
I was enjoying being all positive until I just read a tweet from the wonderfully named DR MARWANK!


Now, if it is £200 million (122% up on the current £90 million), then how is it that there isn't scope to raise the salary cap? If a Club gets £x million from the RFL currently, then how does this deal not boost their spending power by a decent %?

If it were me, I'd pay £2 million to the top 8, £1.5 million to the middle 8 and £1 million to the bottom 8....you've got £4,000,000 left to spend further developing the game.

I think his point is that it makes all SL clubs self sufficient and to quote Neil Hudgell when replying to this.

Chris Irvine ‏@Chrisirvine 13h

BT headed off at pass, SL - & Championship from 2015 - on @skysports through to 2021. Deal worth over £200m. Salary cap increase anyone?

With this.

Neil Hudgell ‏@NeilHudgell 7h

@Chrisirvine @SkySports little point in securing all clubs viability, if it's just passed on..so, no is the short answer!

Kind of makes that point.

Tje new contract doesn't come into play for another 3 years so cap Changes won't even be discussed until then. I think he is wanting the cap changed now. Lets wait and see. We've 3 years to plan how to spend this money. I doubt within 12 hours of the deal been announced the RFL say they are raising the cap.

Umm from the proposals

An increase of 175k, or less than 10% shouldn't be beyond the realms of reason given the 60% increase or so increase in tv revenue ...

Marquee players aren't the way to go imo, as it could eat into infrastructure etc and youth (home grown cap is great for that) but a little bit extra can make a big difference