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Post by giasf on Jan 22, 2019 22:48:13 GMT
RL fans are the most blinkered people in the world. Toronto have started at the bottom and worked their way up. No whinging about the format and missing out. Magnanimous in their praise for London. Everyone who has been on the trip to Toronto talk about how good it is. It’s not perfect and there are plenty of issues with international leagues but the idea they are being given advantages is just nonsense +1. |
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Jan 22, 2019 23:13:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 23:13:30 GMT
Don't Toronto owe a few clubs (including us) outstanding monies from transfers?
Hopefully they can pay up now.
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Post by russ on Jan 23, 2019 5:32:12 GMT
I agree with Russ. More RL TV exposure is a good thing. More professional teams in more countries is a good thing Toronto is entirely self-funded. They do not receive any money from the RFL and do not receive any money from existing TV deals. They have to pay to be in the challenge cup. They travel between Canada and the uk several times a year at their own expense. They have paid for English teams to do travel over. How are they getting an advantage from this? RL fans are the most blinkered people in the world. Toronto have started at the bottom and worked their way up. No whinging about the format and missing out. Magnanimous in their praise for London. Everyone who has been on the trip to Toronto talk about how good it is. It’s not perfect and there are plenty of issues with international leagues but the idea they are being given advantages is just nonsense I think we are the sporting equivalent of the Brexit Leave vote!
TWP are now my second second team after the Dragons mainly because if so many RL fans moan about them being there they must be brilliant!
Any sport that keeps one or more of it's clubs out of any competition it runs must be poor for the Future of the sport. They simply don't believe in the product enough to sell it well enough to a wide audience.
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Post by hovered64 on Jan 23, 2019 10:13:28 GMT
I went to the Denver England/NZ test last June ... it was badly marketed in Colorado (some posters in Denver), only 19k there in a 80k stadium, hardly any TV coverage beforehand, it was played in 90+ degrees etc etc ….. but.... the crowd was 90% yanks and they loved it, absolutely loved it.... especially the clean breaks, the hit-ups and the no-helmets thingy... based on that one experience I think expansion can work
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Post by lemmy on Jan 23, 2019 12:35:29 GMT
I went to the Denver England/NZ test last June ... it was badly marketed in Colorado (some posters in Denver), only 19k there in a 80k stadium, hardly any TV coverage beforehand, it was played in 90+ degrees etc etc ….. but.... the crowd was 90% yanks and they loved it, absolutely loved it.... especially the clean breaks, the hit-ups and the no-helmets thingy... based on that one experience I think expansion can work From that, North American expansion can definitely work. They already have an appetite for physical/contact sports. 19k for a poorly-marketed game is great, especially compared to the attendances in the series over here in November (only 17k in Hull and 24k at Anfield, albeit those were poorly-marketed too). |
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Jan 23, 2019 16:59:08 GMT
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Post by redunderthebed on Jan 23, 2019 16:59:08 GMT
Oh. And it turns out Toronto are paying the production costs for televising the games. The cheating gets!
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