Seems promising on the face of it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... deal-ever/ I think the last deal was £900k per year, this is suggesting double that so around £1.8M. An extra £75k to each of the clubs will go down well I imagine. Good to see it in place well ahead of the start of the new season and follows on the back of Dacia extending their deal too.

Seems promising on the face of it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... deal-ever/ I think the last deal was £900k per year, this is suggesting double that so around £1.8M. An extra £75k to each of the clubs will go down well I imagine. Good to see it in place well ahead of the start of the new season and follows on the back of Dacia extending their deal too.

My read of it is that SL wants to expand to 14 clubs, but was restricted by the current TV deal and not wanting to dilute the money to more clubs. I agree I'd like to see expansion to 14 at the next TV deal

Great news, been a good few weeks for the game and a nice positive article in one of the Nationals to go with it. Little surprise there's few comments on this topic.

How does this deal compare to those of a few years ago (prior to ludicrous Stobart free of charge debacle)?

On the face of it good news, certainly heading in the right direction.

However its the SKY TV deal that's the one which will see which way the sport is heading. Would love to see a massive hike in income from the television rights. Let's hope.

I had a search but couldnt find anything regards the Engage deal, which I think as the biggest deal prior to this one, I have in my head that was approx £1.3m but couldnt swear to it.

The TV deal will indeed be the big one. I'm hoping to see an increase in value on the back of more games being shown live, it's critical to the future of the game.

Think everyone wants 14 clubs except 11 of the 12 clubs. Toulouse and one other probably Toronto (not convinced by Toronto, could all fall apart too easily, and not earned there stripes like Toulouse a second french club long overdue.)

It’s actually 10 of the 12 clubs as saints and Warrington have nothing to fear

Wasn’t Saints season brought to a grinding halt last year by a French team...yeah right nothing to fear

Can't he love rugby league, but not love Salford?

Font kniw what your talking about, i was refering to 11 of the 12 current clubs who voted for this loop fixture system.

They should release the actual amount. The secrecy is unnecessary.

they won't release attendances unless they want to....I doubt we'll know how exceptional this is until they release their accounts.....by which stage we'll have forgotten the "spin"we swallowed.....like the record attendance for a weekend.......which we couldn't beat last weekend when we had one game with nearly 45% of that record...