Darts, horse racing and cricket would barely exist if it weren't for alcohol and betting.

Not much booze flowing at the Betfred World Snooker Championship, yet the prize money is very generous........with the winner receiving £400k and runner up receiving £180k.

Perhaps without any consultation, agreement or consideration of the rest of the League Clubs & perhaps another example of positive discrimination in favour of another overseas Club to the detriment of R.L Founder Member Clubs !

To treat one group differently & with favour over another is discrimination whether you like it or not, this is just another example of discrimination in the pro expansionist wet dream.

Dig a little deeper & I would suggest that more is being hidden by Red Hall than we can possibly fathom.

Think we have gone off track a little

Basically, Toronto roll into town with a camera crew behind them - EXPECTING to broadcast the game.

They did it last year with the league 1 clubs and it payed off for them.

The higher up they get the more "savvy" the opponents.

End of the day they are nobody special

Be great if Sky showed SL games with a highlights show. And PS bought the Champ rights and broadcast all TW games plus one other game per week (with all Champ clubs getting a slice of the broadcast deal). With SKY retaining Summer Bash and Middle 8's. In an ideal world anyway!

I may well be completely wrong as I don't know the ins and outs af the whole situation, but, for example if PS buy the rights for the Toronto games off SKY what right do the clubs have to refuse entry to PS? They'd technically already be 'expecting' a TV crew as the rights have been sold to SKY and could potentally be broadcast by them.

However, I may well be off the mark with this

Selling on tv rights to other broadcasters happens occaisonally. It depends whether the RFL deal with Sky has any clause within it about that but I imagine it's pretty flexible as the championship rights aren't the most valuable in the world and they would most likely welcome any coverage.

then it's fair to say that if the championship clubs knew this,and agreed to this, then there is no argument. On the other hand,this issue has been brought up,so yes, i'm guessing there is some issues concerning the rights regarding the broadcasting. Hopefully, It'll all come out in't wash.

The bigger picture is that TW are trying to develop the game in a new territory and that their 5away/5 home match fixture schedule does them no favours in maintaining the attention of new supporters. By arranging for all their games to be televised they are maintaining a connection with their fan base. Personally I can't see there being a big impact on the attendances at what are likely to be one of the home teams biggest games of the season against the glamour side in their competition. What the Championship clubs need to do is market the matches against TW properly and sell additional advertising off the back of it.

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Nice idea in principle (sell advertising) but the reality of convincing companies that advertising at a Championship RL game against a Canadian team broadcast on a niche channel is a pretty tough sell. Might get them a few hundred quid, but can't see any significant thousands pouring in.

But then again can't see them losing thousands in gate money. With a bit of promotion in the local towns they might even get a few more through the gate for a match against what looks to be a very strong TW team, some of whom might like the game so much they become regular fans.

Alternatively they could just sit there whinging and try and leach money off the back of the work of clubs who are trying to get more fans through the gate by promoting themselves in the local community.

Yep, they'll take option 2, followed by a "save our club" bucket collection in a couple of years.