Put simply, before you try to decry something new that is designed to attract interest, sponsors and fans to a sport, why not ask yourself why the MD of Travis Perkins was there, rather than at Magic Weekend, or the Challenge Cup Final? No matter how much money the ECB threw at this, they've also put in the hard hours of planing, media work, press releases, press conferences, big name signings like warne at lords and the real kicker is they've probably given the TV rights to the BBC for peanuts and hoped SKY can flog the Indian and Pakistan rights for a few bob.
All it will take is 2 indian billionaires (they have a few) who missed out on the IPL and this game will become a 30 day gambling dream.....

Meanwhile, somewhere up north, in a dusty smoke filled room, the RFL are trying to think of how to get the likes of Wakefield and Salford to vote for their own demise......but let's all point at another sport to make ourselves feel better

To be fair,cricket is a national sport, rugby league isn’t. That’s why more people enjoy cricket

To be fair, he did say “years” and for the last 6 years you’ve been playing rabble whilst the top teams have been playing each other

Wigan have been poor for a while now but it's harsh to call them rabble.

They were rabble tonight....made an average rovers look good

I reckon the Hundred will have lost a heap of cash come the end. I got an email offering me free tickets for everyone of the Originsls home games bar the one against the Yorky team. Even with that the grounds have been half full most of the time.

What it does show is how people can perceive a sport from outside looking in. They’ve bigged it up on tv, got it talked about in the press and they manage to give it a look of being a huge success. I think it will be in time but it’s very much a case of speculating to accumulate at the minute IMO.

T'other way round old chum so you've just called Saints 'rabble'. I don't disagree to be fair.

All SL will do is hire some northern indy band like they do every year. Its lame

so that's a guess then

most businesses spend thousands even before collecting their first profit and yes its a revamp of the 20/20 personally I've enjoyed it whether its bringing enough income we will see

The fact people are talking about it proves its worked. Few friends of mine went for the first time and enjoyed it and may go again. More money for cricket in the long run.

Not really true. This thing has cost them a fortune. It's been well received and earned a fair bit of very expensively earned media coverage. But if it doesn't last in the long run, as it probably won't, the cost benefit analysis is going to be tricky.

Only by spending money and advertising do you get people to go/watch on TV. I agree it may be a flop but even if they make a loss if they get more people getting through the turnstiles it could be a success. Depends on numbers vs cost I suppose

Little chance of Rimmer going to any sporting event and taking notes that might stimulate interest in Rugby League. He hasn't yet and very unlikely he will ever do it.
For what it's worth i would like to see a Super League 9's competition taking place preseason to hopefully pique some interest in the coming season, but little chance of that happening

The last time we did a nines competition it was not success.

The issue here appears to be that some people want to try and solve Rugby League's problems with a solution cricket has developed to address its own issues.

Cricket has the issue that its games are too long and tedious for most viewers, even in its shortened versions. This is not a problem our sport faces. There are bits there about marketing and promotion and media coverage which we already knew, plus the excitement of the new, but the tinkering with the sport's format isn't a great learning point because that isn't the problem. The complete opposite if anything.

I'll try not to be too brutal here, but the harsh reality is that but if you take West Yorkshire,, you have Castleford, Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield. Batley. Featherstone, Bradford, Dewsbury & Halifax....9 sides from the top 22 in the country.
2.4 million residents.......and yet you'd struggle to show me an average of 5,000 per game hosted by all these teams in 2019. Leeds will be the anchor side in SL, Bradford in Champs in terms of average crowds, but the reality is that Leeds v Cas, Wakey, Hudds.....these games should be 20k sell outs......

Next year, half the top flights english clubs could be from one county......it's time for some tough love!