True,but the supers 8's is over seven weeks. All three top/mid/bottom comps would surely suffice for a channel of its own.Play some archives outside live action..

Doesn't the Ryder Cup have its own channel for a couple of days?

Off the top of my head they've done it for all of the golf majors and for the Ashes series'.

I've been to plenty of these darts events and never seen any trouble. The atmosphere is ace

Regards

King James

No , they're all too pi55ed to fight

Exactly , they go , get dressed up , get pi55ed , sing daft songs , particularly the one daft one , and watch a big TV screen showing a little oblong section of a dart board ( well some do , most just sing and drink )

The production costs compared to a proper sports match would be considerably less for the time involved , but we still get those on here making out that Barry Hearn is some kind of super marketing guru

Now I'm not saying he couldn't improve what we have and do , but I have my doubts , and the two ' sports ' cannot be compared IMO

but doesn't your point support the view that Barry Hearn is a super marketing guru? He wasn't, or isn't too shabby when it comes to the 'sport' of snooker another game that should by rights have limited appeal

Fishing too


I think a good time for Barry Hearn to get involved in RL would've been whilst he was chairman at Leyton Orient, either buying into or working with London Broncos to re-home them at Brisbane Rd.

He wouldn't have put up with Hughes' mistakes (or made those mistakes himself), and the size & location of Brisbane Rd would've been ideal to finally lay some long lasting roots.

, my old man is a keen fisherman, and we once watched 'Fish-o-Mania' for a couple of hours ( ), which is another of Hearn's ideas. It wasn't actually that bad, more because they make it more entertaining to the casual viewer by doing 'weigh ins' quite often, which meant the you could see a 'live' leader board.


That said, it's not our product that needs changing, it's the whole set up away from the pitch. Heard would do wonders for mass appeal I think, and really get to grips with the marketing and use his relationship with Sky to fight for better deals & programming.

We'd still IMO be left with a hole that needed filling for everything else the RFL are currently crap at.



Nigel Wood has been in post for 10 years now at the RFL, and a director for 15 years or so. He's also been SL Chief since 1996.

Also, Neville Smith at Sky has been running the RL coverage for 25 years, along with Hemmings and Stevo (thankfully now retired). Whilst the coverage has been ok, we still have a programme full of 80's rock music, robots running around in the intro, 7 different people speaking to us, scheduling that's getting worse and a diminished presence on the channels.

Surly the sport needs freshening up?

who thinks the game is in rude health?

Regards

King James

So which 2 nd tier Aussie club has 6,000+ season ticket holders who attend all their games ?

i don't watch either snooker or darts and never would. But if someone said i had to go to one of them it'd be the darts just for the atmosphere, and too see what all the fuss was about. I would never go to a snooker match. it seems that people who have awful coughs or TB, are the only ones Who purchase tickets.