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| Quote: The Yellow Giraffe "Whereas Saints are owned by a consortium of boy scouts ![]()
It wasn't point scoring. It was firmly tongue in cheek. Ours didn't make the headlines. I think the 2024 season might be the last as an entertaining spectacle. We (the game) are being ran into the ground by our paymasters (Sky) but the powers that be roll over and let it happen. We allow the games rules to be changed to a point where it doesn't look like RL anymore and we keep being fed 'Nobody would insure us' yet Boxing and basically street fighting (MMA) have no issues and are raking it in. Eddie Hearn wanted to come on board and he was quietly nudged away. he saw something that could grow and now we are stuck with what we have. ALL the clubs are losing money, next season they basically aren't allowed to tackle each other, the revenue is going down, crowds aren't improving and IMG are doing sod all either. We are reaching the end.
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| Quote: Zig "So no MPs or anybody from the House of Lords was involved then?'"
Lost me on that one? |
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| Quote: Cherry_Warrior "It wasn't point scoring. It was firmly tongue in cheek. Ours didn't make the headlines. I think the 2024 season might be the last as an entertaining spectacle. We (the game) are being ran into the ground by our paymasters (Sky) but the powers that be roll over and let it happen. We allow the games rules to be changed to a point where it doesn't look like RL anymore and we keep being fed 'Nobody would insure us' yet Boxing and basically street fighting (MMA) have no issues and are raking it in. Eddie Hearn wanted to come on board and he was quietly nudged away. he saw something that could grow and now we are stuck with what we have. ALL the clubs are losing money, ]next season they basically aren't allowed to tackle each other,] the revenue is going down, crowds aren't improving and IMG are doing sod all either. We are reaching the end.'"
Thats been scrapped hasn't it??? |
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| Quote: Stu M "Lost me on that one?'"
Sorry mate, many of those who sit in the two Houses made plenty of dosh from COVID. |
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| Quote: Cherry_Warrior "It wasn't point scoring. It was firmly tongue in cheek. Ours didn't make the headlines. I think the 2024 season might be the last as an entertaining spectacle. We (the game) are being ran into the ground by our paymasters (Sky) but the powers that be roll over and let it happen. We allow the games rules to be changed to a point where it doesn't look like RL anymore and we keep being fed 'Nobody would insure us' yet Boxing and basically street fighting (MMA) have no issues and are raking it in. Eddie Hearn wanted to come on board and he was quietly nudged away. he saw something that could grow and now we are stuck with what we have. ALL the clubs are losing money, next season they basically aren't allowed to tackle each other, the revenue is going down, crowds aren't improving and IMG are doing sod all either. We are reaching the end.'"
Oh behave - They are in a cage, there are rules, gloves, weight classes, drug testing, athletic commissions. |
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| Quote: nathan_rugby "Oh behave - They are in a cage, there are rules, gloves, weight classes, drug testing, athletic commissions.'"
Not what i would call gloves, kicks and knees to the head, beating your opponent to a pulp until they are knocked out and bleeding out everywhere. Some sport that. Regardless of what I think of it though. They aren't struggling to be insured and the competitiors of it will be fit for nothing in 20 years. |
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"I have this system where I support England first, then the other Home Nations, then the rest of the Commonwealth, then the rest of the World, then France.": |
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| Quote: Cherry_Warrior "Not what i would call gloves, kicks and knees to the head, beating your opponent to a pulp until they are knocked out and bleeding out everywhere. Some sport that. Regardless of what I think of it though. They aren't struggling to be insured and the competitiors of it will be fit for nothing in 20 years.'"
The main difference is that there has been no change of perception recently. Combat sports have always been subject to big insurance risks and disclaimers so boxing and mma aren't suddenly having to react to massive new bills. For rugby, while there has always been an argument of "they know the risks", the risks people mostly associated with it were to mobility, risks of breaks, hip replacements, knee replacements and so on. With a couple of big lawsuits there is a sudden new financial risk due to dementia, which means insurers that used to deal with the sport have run away and the ones that have stayed are raising premiums at a time when the sport has no money to cope with new expenses. The same is happening down under, but the NRL has the money to cope with some additional expense, and the profile to attract more insurers, so it doesn't have the same effect.
Long term I expect this to settle down a bit but, for now, it's a real challenge for the game over here. |
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