So now people can stop using the TV deal as an excuse to exempt Catalans from relegation, and that annoying, cringeworthy cliche "for the good of the game?".

Ah but, in the modern world of TV companies paying big money for broadcasting rights, they get to call the shots and IF RL has promised that there will be a French club in the comp, it makes things a little awkward in said French club gets relegated or, in the case on Paris, goes pop.
Remember, Catalan replaced the failed Paris club.
Sky call the shots and the puppets (or you could say muppets) at Red Hall, just nod their heads.

If Catalan, by arranging their own deal, dont receive a share of the Sky contract monies, their inclusion would allow the other clubs to receive a larger share or, for 1/12th to be distributed elsewhere.

Therefore, they are bringing something to the game and allowing fans to have a weekend in the sun at least once a year (unless you happen to be playing there mid Feb ).

Also, say Catalans do get relegated, Sky don't have to lose out if they started showing Championship games.

It all depends on what the terms of the deal are that was negotiated.
Also, even if Sky get the coverage for free, but dont have the pain and expense of sending crew over there, sending cameras and crew elsewhere, if Catalan were relegated, would be an additional cost for them.
Of course, Catalan would lose out massively if they were relegated, unless they could persuade "Bien Sports" to still pay them to show their games, but, that would seem unlikely.

Nothing like the stobbart deal, which seemed to do far more for stobbart than RL.

Interestingly there was a young lad on Dragons Den touting his business for "Stobbart Style" advertising, he'd have "painted up" Stobbarts trailers for a fraction of the supposed cost involved in their sponsorship. Although, IIRC, the value of the Stobbart deal was all estimates and guesstimates.

I'd still rather have Catalan in SL than not.

Catalans will never be relegated. Whether fans from leigh or wakefield choose to believe it or not, the vision the RFL and Sky have for RL in this country includes Catalans.

If the worst does come to the worst, they could "do a huddersfield" where you take over a club, sorry, "merge" with a club and sack all their players just to avoid relegation

Regards

King James

They'd do better sacking their own players and keeping the ones they inherit.

Depends who they merge with I suppose!

Regards

King James

I thought the flatcappers were predominantly Fev fans?

It does?

It's not a private deal. Sky passed on the rights to Premier Sports.We don't have a say because we all signed up to Sky or took the £300k sweetner. If all the Championship clubs invested £300k each in a new broadcaster they would be reaping the benefits ten fold now.

Classic case as per the norm, of waiting for the mountain to come to Muhammad.There has to come a point where we stop blaming others for our own sins.

And where exactly were they going to get £300k from? That's probably getting on for the total income of a few Championship clubs, and a very significant portion for most. Not everyone gets £750k central funding and a £500k bung you know.......

That's the negativity and one of the reasons the game never moves on. They are all businesses at the end of the day. If the business sits waiting it will never come,you need to get it.

Would you like to expand on this statement?