Ive been saying for a few years now that the sport is in terminal decline. You are quite right in your assertion that the professional game will be gone in 5-10 years. SKY will offer us a reduced deal and given that no other broadcaster wants to show such a dull, boring game we will have no option to accept which will put a lot of clubs in trouble. I also agree that I doubt this would have happened under Lindsay's tenure.

Still no sponsor for the Challenge Cup .

If they do not get one maybe rugby fans .com can offer £10.50 p to sponsor it LOL

Only the sport of RL could turn a great PR triumph (Catalans winning the cup) into a farce by potentially denying them the opportunity to defend their title.

I agree. As you say people love a day out & even more so if they can latch onto a bit of glory to do with their city/town's sports teams. As has been mentioned you just have to look at Cas, half their town seemed to turn out that day, yet their SL average is around 7500. I think there's huge potential for decent numbers if some of the say more success-starved teams got there and that would have a positive knock-on effect in season tickets after that, especially if they won.

And all this talk about the current champions not being allowed to defend the title is not gonna help.

Quote: rollin thunder "you said you could guarantee that a Salford Wakefield final would sell more that a warrington Catalan final, would you be prepared to put down 500k as a bond to ensure it did. really could not see a wakefield salford final selling more that 50k, and to be fair thats more to do with Salford, Wakefield against anyone else maybe would not be a bad attendance except maybe Huddersfield.'" I think you'll find that Salford were involved in the final with the 3rd highest recorded attendance back in 1969 princess..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%E2 ... llenge_Cup I've personally been picked up by at least 30k Salford taxi drivers over the years that have asked me "how did we get on?" so with just taxi drivers alone we'd more than sell our allocation. It's amazing how many glory hunters come out of the woodwork for a showpiece final...

Quote: rollin thunder "you said you could guarantee that a Salford Wakefield final would sell more that a warrington Catalan final, would you be prepared to put down 500k as a bond to ensure it did. really could not see a wakefield salford final selling more that 50k, and to be fair thats more to do with Salford, Wakefield against anyone else maybe would not be a bad attendance except maybe Huddersfield.'" I think you'll find that Salford were involved in the final with the 3rd highest recorded attendance back in 1969 princess..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%E2 ... llenge_Cup I've personally been picked up by at least 30k Salford taxi drivers over the years that have asked me "how did we get on?" so with just taxi drivers alone we'd more than sell our allocation. It's amazing how many glory hunters come out of the woodwork for a showpiece final...

Maybe an insurance company could pick up free naming rights on the basis of underwriting the supposed loss of revenue should Catalans reach the final!?

Oh the irony of being called out by one of the biggest trolls on here!

I'm sure every Salford fan knows exactly where I'm coming from on this so I won't lose any sleep over you getting your knickers in a twist LeBron/Jean.

It's called providing facts rather than baseless waffle which most on here do.

Just one "p" in "scraping" btw, otherwise your sentence makes no sense (won't be the first or the last time though eh? ).

They are allowed to defend the title, thy just have to pay for the honour of doing so.

It could possibly be the most the cup is mentioned in the media if this was the case so maybe it would.