Quote ="wrencat1873"I know that some like to see shiny plastic seats but, we should be selling the product and not the "wrapper".
For example, the Cas v Saints play off game a few years ago was one of the most dramatic and compelling games of recent years.
NOBODY was looking at the lack of seating or the quality of the facilities.
RL scored a HUGE own goal by setting it's mythical 10,000 attendance figure, something which only 4/5 clubs can achieve.
It's absolutely right to try and push up standards on/off the field but, watching a decent game in a poor ground, beats watching a poor game in a half (or worse) empty ground all day long.
Strangely, Toronto's ground with it's psychedelic multisport pitch markings, was as bad as it gets but, "we" were pretty keen to get them into the comp.
It's utter nonsense to suggest that clubs like Trinity hold back the TV deal.
Do you really think that if they were playing out of a brand new 12,000 seater stadium, there would be, even one more penny on the TV deal
Of course everything looks better when the games are played to "sell out" crowds, although this seems very unlikely in the foreseeable future, for any club and there is no doubt that Trinity and others, need to make progress with their ground, least of all to open up additional revenue streams for themselves but, we still get back to the game of RL and using the Cas / Huddersfield analogy again, the game looks and sounds better from The Jungle than it ever has at Huddersfield but, you surely know this but, couldn't help having a pop at Trinity , again. It's like you think that they stole something which was yours ??'"
If it’s about the product Hudds/Wakey have featured in the closest three games so far all decided by one point. One in overtime.
So would SKY prefer these games or the 40/50 point blow out some of the others have been???
You can wax on about Saints until you meet your maker but what neutral wants to watch big points blow outs??
The appeal of any sport to TV is a close high skilled, exciting, hard fought game in doubt until the final minutes, people don’t switch that game off.
Doesn’t matter whether it’s at Wheldon Road, Belle Vue, John Smiths, DW or Craven Park.
The product on the field is what puts ‘bums in front of the telly’ not where it’s been played
