Wakefield. They've had their chance, they need a few years out of the top flight to get their priorities in order.

excellent news

well done RFL and richard lewis

yet again another good result for the game

does this mean the league will expand or raise grant to each club to cover losses

id go latter at first tbh

If sl continually gets higher tv ratings than it's rugby union counterpart I take it's been reflected in the new deal?

How much are the current latest deals for the other big sports in the UK?

I know Soccer/football would be massive, but what about the other sports like Cricket, Union and whatnot?

We should probably also note that the last deal included international rights, this one is for SL only. If true them brilliant news.

From everything i've seen on TV in the last few days Cricket is on it's @rse. Record low attendances at tests, everyone's bored of 20/twenty and the World Cup was an anticlimax as England (suprise suprise) did nowt. Listened to a lot of 5 Live Sports Extra in all the rain delays talking about the state of their game and it sounded bleak.

i hope its £90million just for super league.......with challenge cup, championship & internationals deals still to come it should top £100million which is fantastic business in the current climate



as for cricket...theres far too much cricket on sky these days...i like cricket too but it's getting to the point of overkill now

I like test and one day cricket. Quicket is rubbish though and I think a lot of people are bored of it and it's effected the other forms of the game badly too.

Better for RL if you ask me, our main summer sport rival is struggling.

Apart from the prem the football leagues deal has gone down, by quite a lot. As have a few other sports.

A lot of people were expecting super league to struggle to keep the deal at the current level let alone improve on it (albeit only slightly)

Yeah I used to watch cricket religiously during the summer and couldn't wait for the one dayers and certain tests, after I got pay TV about 10 years ago, I slowly got bored with it to the point I only watch a little if I've got nothing to do or there's nothing else on TV.

Btw, I noticed the SL/RFL deal hasn't mentioned Internet rights, they could be worth a pretty penny and the way the world is moving with streaming and such, I hope the RFL don't give them away for sfa like the NRL did last time.

Well that's great news then, shows the RFL are heading in the right direction if they are one of the few to get an increase (and a bloody good increase by the looks of it).

Well done all involved.

But do we get higher TV ratings than RU? Sky, BBC and ESPN all show RU and more than 1 game a day...

Based on what the deal is estimated now... If it's split between just the 14 SL clubs it's 'only' about 100k extra each per year... And you want to add two SL clubs on that

Considering only what 4/5 clubs will be spending full cap right now intruky can't see it making much of a difference in wage / salary cap terms. Though will ease financial burden on more.

All this means really us the sponsorship deal needs to be the big increase!

we're never going to get every game screened live on sky like with the NRL & foxtel......but could we stream every game live via SLTV or something?

You'd think so, TV stations are on the way out, everything will be via streams soon, pick and choose what you like.