The announced figures at Bradford have been a source of plenty of amusement for visiting fans. It would be interesting to know to what extent IMG have followed through with their promised "ad hoc audits."

I didn't count tv at all in my number for that reason

IMG aren't auditors. The the RFL.

We are on TV less than other SL clubs because we don't have a good or consistent product to showcase the sport, but our league games will not be on TV at all in the championship and this will impact on our IMG grading

We didn't score any points for TV reach in the IMG ratings.

We can't score any fewer when we go down.

We did (all super league clubs do) but as time away from super league grows that TV coverage and associated IMG points will be reduced. This would change were there to be a TV deal for the championship, but as far as I'm aware, there isn't one for next season

I was jibing at the fact we aren't sodding picked enough, but whilst it's either as much as 1 point or as little as .75 points, it won't affect our score.

The score is the average of the previous 3 seasons i.e. our score won't change.

Yes, for sure. I must admit having read the Meta Business Source section in the Grading Criteria document and the detailed and complex procedure for analysing social media data, I'm a little nervous if this is being done in-house by the RFL having seen their attempts to run their own website.

There are only 2 scores for viewership.
It's an average so it doesn't matter how many games we are on and it's above or below 150k.
So we can either be 0.75 or 1.0. So the most we can lose is 0.25.

I believe some games or on tv? Viaplay for example tonight. This I would imagine will contribute.

Even more important is that we get to 1895 and the championship final. I would imagine these will be televised and count.

I appreciate there may be less exposure or numbers but there may be some points to be had.

As it stands there is no tv deal in place for the
Championship next year. Viaplay won’t take it again, they are pulling out of the UK market.

The whole point of the IMG ratings is for clubs to improve over time and increase their rating score. a clubs rating can actually go down as well as up.

So no TV exposure [ or very little] means sponsorship revenue is likely to plummet.
Will ASUS, a major brand name still be sponsoring us next season with what will be very poor national tv exposure.

As the new East Stand should be open by the start of next season the opening game should
attract a decent crowd, we should be looking at around 4k for that at least.
That should get us off to a decent start attendance wise.