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.

The viewership rating can't go down - we already get .75 (the minimum score).

That part of the point scoring may not go down, but if standards aren't maintained on all the scoring points required to get an A grade,you can actually drop from an A rating to a B rating,that is the point i am making.

Reading this just makes me sad at what the sport is doing to itself. Yes we all know the sport needs better infrastructure, digitalisation and marketing. But don't sacrifice sporting competition for it.

The championship has been super exciting this year. Look how close the relegation battle is, three teams on same points, two on same points difference. The battle for the play-offs has been excellent. Let's throw it all away so clubs can fill out questionnaires on social media following. All it does is set fans against each other.

Instead of talking about signing a decent scrum-half to take you to the top next year we're talking about signing someone who's good at TikTok videos. I'll give the IMG box ticking 3 years max before we change the structure again!

Anyway rant over and looking forward to visiting Belle Vue next year. The new stand looks excellent.

From next season every SL game will be shown live with the increased publicity and sponsorship that brings but maybe a reduction in supporter numbers.