Quote: Egg Chasing "What does SBW have to do with gridiron players playing league all of a sudden which they claimed would happen? '"
Again - exposure. Simple, cheap, effective marketing.
Quote: Egg Chasing "If the Melbourne comparison isn't right then how about using Gold Coast? Canterbury? Wigan? Basically any full time side playing against Whitehaven, Barrow and South Wales. Their "away games" are barely a chore as they all go home to their families (not exactly a GB tour) rather than fly out Friday, play Saturday and come straight back home. Of course, the Wolfpack pay for this.....well 19 seats...so it's ok.'"
Again - they can only beat who’s in front of them.
Quote: Egg Chasing "Their TV deal consisted of two games I believe but I'll stand corrected on that one. A quick scan of the website does show the news story of them pulling out but there is no section dedicated to rugby so they hardly see it as a big deal. I'd be interested to see viewing figures.'"
I read an article that said all their games were being televised on TV. It was a while ago and I’ll try to find it but like you will stand corrected if wrong.
Quote: Egg Chasing "Their crowds include people who attend a beer festival at one end of the ground. And this 10k is 0.3% of the population of Toronto. I'd therefore wager that most people have no idea who they are'"
Ah similar to Magic Weekend then?
And Wigan’s average attendance is 11,308 in 2019. The population of Wigan (as of 201icon_cool.gif was 326,088 giving an average of 3.6% of Wigan attending home games. By comparison the population of Toronto is 2.93million. For them to get even 1% of that means an average gate of 29,300. Just shy of the largest SL match attendance.
Quote: Egg Chasing " It was a bold effort and one that may well have worked, but again the RFL tried to run a marathon before they could barely take a step.'"
Now here I’m not going to disagree. Perhaps they did do it too quick and should have took time to build properly, it’s all hindsight but I hope this isn’t the end. As Grimmy has said, the gloating comments by some are an embarassment.