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!

You say this as if it’s a weakness but it could actually be one of the games strengths.
How about 2 SL conferences,
East - Cas, Huddersfield, Leeds, Fev, Wakefield, Bradford, Hull, Hull KR
West - Leigh, Wigan, Sts, Salford, Warrington, Catalans, Toulouse, Halifax
Each team plays the other teams in the same conference home and away and each team from the other conference once, home or away. Scrap Magic or have it for the quarter finals of the CC. Playoffs - top 4 from each conference play E1 v W4 etc.
That would give lots of local Derby’s without the overkill of loop fixtures plus juicy inter conference one offs. I agree with you that they have to be marketed for all their worth - sell outs should be the norm for most of these matches. 8 team conferences only gives 11 home league games which might be a problem but sometimes less is more and increased attendances might help. Otherwise pressure Sky to up the funding for what should be a more attractive competition.
Just a thought.

Not just the money.
If the Hundred encourages more kids to give cricket a go, it secures the player pool for the future both in the mans and womens game

The cricket authorities realise that 4 and 5 day county cricket is failing. The IPL and Big bash leagues have taken off. Why not make changes, attract new audiences, speed the game up, add music, flashy lights, colours .........Well done to English cricket

Ralph take note