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| Quote Geoff="Geoff"Very much so - and in most cases the sports coaches at schools and colleges are the highest paid staff members.'"
That's worrying, but explains a lot!
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| Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"There is no doubt that we need more money in the sport. I'm not sure if it's reasonable to expect owners to fund it though. The money should come from commercial interests, sponsorship etc.
What makes me smile is that the people who want club owners to put their hand in their pocket would generally be the first to complain if the matchday charges/ season ticket prices went up by about £2 or £3 per game.
Just to show how much that would impact Wigan, a £3 increase would mean almost an extra £600K in income.'"
How can you expect money from sponsors when the game is in such a dire state of affairs? All of the marquee/media friendly players are moving abroad, the only way to wet sponsors lips is to showcase the best players in the world in our league which will then have a knock-on effect with an increase in attendances, like i said before in it's current state we have to lose money before we can start making some or at least breaking even. Prime example Koukash has started this at salford and im more than sure we ill start to see a rise in attendances when they start winning things, Man Utd get 70,000 fans a week, why? Because they keep winning trophies! You cant deny we ar ein decline, years ago we got crowds of 40,000 plus against manly at central park, so far we have yet to fill the Dw stadium that cant be healthy!
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| Quote Bostonslugholes="Bostonslugholes" so far we have yet to fill the Dw stadium'"
 Yes we have, against Saints this year, and plenty times before that. Whether they are charging enough for tickets is another matter. I don't understand why they charge the same price for a Saints game as they do for a London game. I'm not sure if this is a league requirement or club policy. Either way someone, somewhere is missing a trick.
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| Quote Grimmy="Grimmy":? Yes we have, against Saints this year, and plenty times before that. Whether they are charging enough for tickets is another matter. I don't understand why they charge the same price for a Saints game as they do for a London game. I'm not sure if this is a league requirement or club policy. Either way someone, somewhere is missing a trick.'"
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Did you watch it on Tv beacuse i was there and there was empty seats - Ground holds 25,000+, ok it was nearly full but still a loss of over £30,000 in revenue, back in the 80,s 90,s there wouldnt be room to swing a cat at a derby match!
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| The basic cap penalises rich chairmen who want to put their hand in their pockets.
Whilst it would be nice not to see a Man City come along and buy the league completely, i think there should be a number of loopholes that, if funded and guarenteed by a third party like Koucash can be exempt from salary cap.
2 x British Star player - keep them out of the reaches of Union and NRL
2 x Overseas Star player - combine with a tight quota ruling to keep import numbers down to ensure a smaller number of higher quality imports (bigger names).
1 x British Rugby Union Convert
1 x Overseas Rugby Union Convert - whilst these signings are risky, they are headline grabbers and are probably the best way to get attention from the millions of union spectators in the UK.
All the above is spitballing and would, imo, be affective, but its second by a long way to the RFL getting themselves into gear in terms of proper sponsorship for the sport. Where are the car manufacturers and finacial services that sponsor football and rugby union? There's lots of people who watch rugby league on a weekly basis - they all drive cars and have mortgages, don't they??
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| Quote Bostonslugholes="Bostonslugholes"Super League
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Did you watch it on Tv beacuse i was there and there was empty seats - Ground holds 25,000+, ok it was nearly full but still a loss of over £30,000 in revenue, back in the 80,s 90,s there wouldnt be room to swing a cat at a derby match!'"
No I go to every game. The match sold out, the attendance was lower because health and safety regs prevent us from having the full 25,004, nothing to do with demand.
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| You're only allowed to sell every seat if they're allocated seats, so Grimmy is right, that's as good as a sell out as you'll get.
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| Big sponsors aren't in it for charity, they're in it for tax write off and profit increase. They go to sports which attract high net wealth people, or alternatively large numbers of fans worldwide. Rugby League, sadly, attracts neither. Soccer attracts both. Likewise Rugby Union. My wife works in the super rich retail industry in Bond Street, and is involved in a lot of networking and sponsorship. Rightly or wrongly, sponsors aren't massively attracted to a night in Salford with a few thousand locals as they are to an afternoon at twickers or Silverstone with all the big shots. It may not be right, it may not be fair, but it is true.
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| Quote Grimmy="Grimmy"No I go to every game. The match sold out, the attendance was lower because health and safety regs prevent us from having the full 25,004, nothing to do with demand.'"
Wrong again the capacity of the DW stadium is 25,138 and now your making me include facts about the blue sh*te that reside in the stadium, they hold the record attendance or rather Man Utd do when they lifted the cup at the DW the attendance was 25,133 so what was it you was saying about health and safety is this a new piece of legislation??? 
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| Quote Bostonslugholes="Bostonslugholes"Wrong again the capacity of the DW stadium is 25,138 and now your making me include facts about the blue sh*te that reside in the stadium, they hold the record attendance or rather Man Utd do when they lifted the cup at the DW the attendance was 25,133 so what was it you was saying about health and safety is this a new piece of legislation???
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I think you will find the key word is "Allocated". Seats for rugby are not all allocated, i would imagine the wendyball ones are.
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| Quote Bostonslugholes="Bostonslugholes"Wrong again the capacity of the DW stadium is 25,138 and now your making me include facts about the blue sh*te that reside in the stadium, they hold the record attendance or rather Man Utd do when they lifted the cup at the DW the attendance was 25,133 so what was it you was saying about health and safety is this a new piece of legislation???
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 I give up, might as well try to explain algebra to my dog. You can't educate pork
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| Are we perhaps getting a bit off topic here?
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