Spot on.

Rugby league is such an easy sell, to say the RFL have been a disaster over the last few years would be an understatement. I sometimes can't actually believe what they are doing, and even worse how they justify the games 'progress'.

I'm a firm believer that if you can get a number of high profile and influencial people not only backing, but enthusiatically pushing your product to the masses then you are on to a winner. It certainly works in business (Networking breakfasts..etc) and it can work in sport via social media.

You only have to look at the success of Nandos to see what an effect celebrity endorsement can have on a product.

Rio has an audience of almost 3 million on twitter.
It stands to reason that if he shows an interest in our sport then so will they.

The fact that the RFL don't take more advantage of things like this continues to astound me.

If only 10 people follow rugby league from one little tweet, then great, don't see the harm in it, anything positive about our game in any form of media is good with me, but you guys stick with Rio and we'll have Psycho.

Great point.

The way people go on you'd think it was michelin star dining you were getting rather then a glorified KFC with better quality tables and proper knifes and forks.

It's as overrated as Sir Kevin Sinfield.

I'll take your Psycho and raise you Lee Westwood.

We could do with a Soccer AM style show with Carney presenting it with a good looking female RL fan/presenter (anyone says Claire Balding needs their head testing)

Rather have more of a 'Footy show' style like in Aus. Carney presenting along with past and current players each week, most important thing is to pick the characters! Would give the sport a chance to interview people like Ferdinand on their views about our game. Have a different bad on each week etc. could be a great show!

Scrap 'Boots n All' and have it on a Thursday night, get a band or a comedian toclose the show, get some RL fan/celebs like Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Rio, Rooney on and have a live audience.

Have competitions and get our equivalent of Beau Ryan or Matthew Johns to present something daft, have a tipping comp to raise money for some RL related charity where the presenters pick who will win in the SL rounds and lump some cash on each week. I could carry on all night but the Footy Show needs to be the blueprint as it will attract non RL fans and get them into the game rather than the boring outdated Superleague Show and Boots n All.

I prefer a 20 minute "stat attack" from our very own, silver sideburns, creaky necked, uber biased, pro Wigan agenda Phil Clarke

Finding out who made the least amount of marker tackles, whilst subsequently making the most meters per carry is what keeps me coming back for more.

Not my choice of papers buthttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2153628/Rio-Ferdinand-dances-Wigan-Warriors-dressing-room-win-Leeds-Rhinos.htmlrl

I agree. People like Ferdinand and Rooney plugging RL does wonders for the game and is worth millions in free PR. It brings the sport to a whole new audience and gives the sport a lot of credibility.

Westwood as been a fan since hampo was his personal trainer and got both himself and darren clarke into the game.

I think that's a short-sighted view from Alex Murphy to be honest. Rugby League players are, like most footballers, not public school boys with a sure route into the family business or papa's chums' investment bank, like a certain other sport we know. A RL player's career is generally even shorter than a footballer's. After their career is over they need to find employment for the next 30 years of their lives.

A top-level footballer (or even a copule of tiers down these days) at least should have a decent pension built up from his wages (unless he's deliberatly frittered it away of course).

By the time I was 35 I had 12 years experience of electronics engineering, so changing job at that age was easy for me. That's not the case for some poor guy whose experience is mostly knocking the sh*t out of other poor guys!

I'm not suggesting paying the guys £100,000 a week would be a good idea though, and I'm not sure the TV money would quite stretch that far!