Said this myself. The club has so much to offer now with behind the scenes footage, pre match pressers, post match pressers, extended match highlights and interviews with the squad. The club could also run a weekly review show with games for under 18, reserves, men’s first team, women’s first team , under 18 women’s teams, scholarships. They could also have the games on live minus first team. I’d gladly pay for this service.

If it was run as a selectable menu, so you pay a monthly fee and then you can choose what you want to watch at any time, I’m sure it would be a winner. Question would be what price would it need to be to make commercial sense and how would they work with Sky on the televised games?

I think it’s short sighted to charge for this content. It may make a few quid in the short term, but will lead to lower attendances in the long term. You want this to reach as many people as possible, not have it closed shop only seen by a few diehard fans.

i think its a good idea, but no individual clubs are big enough to have their own network. Needs to be all Super league clubs on board, and with support from sky. The same as NFL game pass. each club can have their own channel of content but part of the overall network. NFl season pass works out about £15 a month Cheaper if you pay up front for full 12 months. this is where we should be heading and it should be part of new Tv negotiations.

World of difference from NFL Game Pass and watching Leeds reserves full of Fev cast offs me thinks lol.

Does it really though? Most pre match pressers and interviews with the squad are deadly boring and run of the mill. We’ve been spoilt recently because of all the interest and storylines around Burrow. But generally most interviews are not interesting.
There’s no way I’d pay anything other than a pound or two per month for access to such things. And most likely I wouldn’t bother signing up to it.
It would actively reduce my interest and access to the club and its goings on.

Showing full games could also mean floating supporters don’t turn up for games that aren’t on sky.

I do think they could possibly charge for full games after they have been played but not live, but the quality would have to be netter than the current highlights with the crappy music or radio leeds coverage over the top.

You feel spoilt? Wowser. Thats some choice of word right there!!

McDermott's press conferences were interesting as he was always on the edge of melting down at moronic questions and usually came up with some interesting insights. But apart from that the yes it's hard to think of any players or coach interviews that you'd want to pay money for the right to see. But people will so the club should at least think about monetising it.

The LeedsRhinos TV stuff they did on Youtube for a while where they went behind the scenes a bit had its moments - they seem to have largely ditched it though.

There just isn't a market for it.

They should up their game with regards to better content though.

Put it all on their social media for people to watch. But if it's just the same old cliched sh-te we've heard a million times don't even bother.

One thing that puzzled me (as Fev fan) is that it seems hard to find footage of full first team games? RhinosTV on the website sometimes shows the academy games in full a few days after they have happened but is that correct that you can't go back and watch a full Leeds 1st team game (unless it was on Sky?).

As someone who lives too far away to attend home or away games, I'd be interested in some kind of package that lets me watch non-televised first team matches. Youtube has been great for catching up on highlights and interviews, however.

In terms of interesting behind the scenes footage or player interviews, compared to the usual yes. Because the usual is dull boring, “we’ll keep working hard in training” lines.

Yep agreed. Though I don’t think monetising it is the best way to go as yes it brings in some money but it massively limits your audience. As I said I wouldn’t pay for the bog standard, dull, uninspiring interviews and content we get.
The only thing that might get me to part with some money is access to full length non-televised games with commentary. But I assume there’s something in the Sky deal stopping that as I don’t think any SL club has it?

Rugby League needs to grow its audience not reduce it by charging for these things for a little extra income. A keen supporter might pay for this but not a passing supporter and/or someone who simply just looked out for the rugby league scores. All these behind the scenes videos, live coverage of matches etc. should be made available free of charge.

The better route would be to give the material away for free on YouTube and find sponsorship for it.

A 'Rhinos TV' would only ever preach to the converted and, frankly, I've got better things to spend my money on than watching the U18s team (who I can watch for a token amount at Stanningley) and the usual media-trained dirge that is a pre/post-match presser.

There's a lot that can be done to bring out the personality of the club and players to appeal to new audiences. Personalities like Konrad Hurrell, who already has a big social media following, would be wasted on a club TV channel.

We have trinity TV at wakefield . Think it costs £50 for the year or £5 a month. Loads of games from 60s and 70s plus every game from last few seasons.
Every match in full is put on there the following day, so you can see full matches if you cannot get to the games etc.
Really surprised that leeds do not have something similar.

Rhinos Fan TV outside the ground would go down well.

Plenty of meltdowns to be viewed online. Lots of hits!

Be hilarious that. Could you imagine.

I'd love it

I second this idea.

Had a lad screaming blue murder at our "useless No7" Ritchie Myler on Sunday, had to point out poor Ritchie was still on the bench



Best one was some one screaming "Bloody hell Thaler! get back to Lancashire" quickly followed by a friend deadpanning back "He's from Wakey fella" cue much chuntering and laughing.

I swear, I don't know why some people go to games if all they constantly do is moan.

Leeds a 'bigger club' than the pies???







The ultimate currency in any sport is trophies and they blitz you out of the water in that respect...and I'm certainly no lover of them.

Well it’s not. Otherwise Sunderland and Everton would be bigger clubs than Manchester City.

The size of a club is largely irrelevant to its success.

So Wigan are the most successful club but not the biggest.

Leeds attendances are larger and revenue and profits far outstrip that of Wigan.

There’s no need to be so defensive. Biggest is simply a different criteria to most successful.

Mentioned it on here at the time, I think, but one of the best we've had was a fella giving Sam Tomkins pelters all game and he shouted "go on Tomkins why don't you go for one" and he did from miles out and got it. Wigan at home couple of seasons ago.

Everyone stood around him just turned and look at him and shook their head!