Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:54 pm  

jakeyg95 wrote:

Will they be on Premier Sports next season as Sky have the rights to the Championship (assuming they're promoted of course)?

I fully expect a similar deal to Catalans to take place where all Toronto games are televised. There'll be loads of interest from SL viewers as well as each Championship team's fans not going across. Bigger viewing figures than standard Champ games, particularly as they'll kick off at 9:30pm or alike. Peak viewing period on a Saturday when football isn't on.

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:58 pm  

Fully wrote:

I fully expect a similar deal to Catalans to take place where all Toronto games are televised. There'll be loads of interest from SL viewers as well as each Championship team's fans not going across. Bigger viewing figures than standard Champ games, particularly as they'll kick off at 9:30pm or alike. Peak viewing period on a Saturday when football isn't on.

Yeah I guess it's pretty easy to just broadcast the Canadian feed for all their home games.

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:23 pm  

9pm saturday night would work out quite well in terms of time with Les Catalans at 6pm.

If we play our cards right and the NRL and RFL could get their heads together during the summer we could see Saturdays with games kicking off at 6pm in Auckland (4pm Sydney, 7am UK) 6pm Sydney (8pm Auckland, 9am UK) 8pm Sydney (10pm Auckland, 11am UK) 1pm UK (midnight Auckland, 10pm Sydney) 3pm uk (2am Auckland, midnight Sydney) 6pm france (5am Auckland, 3am Sydney) 8pm uk (7am Auckland, 5am Sydney) 5pm Toronto (10pm uk, 9am Auckland, 7am Sydney)

17hrs of live RL in a day, 8 games, and 5 of them (possibly 6 if sky scrapped the thursday night games) would already be being broadcast

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:18 pm  

jakeyg95 wrote:

*Activates Leigh fan mode*

They should be playing in their own Canadian league if they're so good. They don't benefit English RL at all.
They can take their bigger crowds and extra TV deal elsewhere, what English RL needs is Whitehaven in Super League.
They've been in the league for half a season now and the Canada team is still rubbish....WASTE OF TIME!

Not really fair given the obvious connection between the clubs , if they or Montreal in 2019 decide to pillage say Cas of half their squad , I'm sure we'll see a similar dislike displayed

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:24 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

But it has been interesting to see some of the myths Toronto have busted, the arguments about the 'fairness' of P+R and it being beneficial for the game as a whole have been thrown out of the window and it is now they are at least honest about their position being solely about self-preservation and self interest.

If this is a reference once again just to Leigh , can you provide a link to prove your claim ?

I haven't seen or read anything from the Leigh club suggesting Toronto should be treated differently to any other club

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:27 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

In fairness, its not all Leigh fans, nor only Leigh fans, unfortunately for them some of their empty vessels are the loudest.
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Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:45 pm  

GUBRATS wrote:

If this is a reference once again just to Leigh , can you provide a link to prove your claim ?

I haven't seen or read anything from the Leigh club suggesting Toronto should be treated differently to any other club

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Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:49 pm  

You would have thought a sentence that included the words "its not all Leigh fans, nor only Leigh fans" would have have been clue enough.

Apparently not.

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:14 pm  

SmokeyTA wrote:

You would have thought a sentence that included the words "its not all Leigh fans, nor only Leigh fans" would have have been clue enough.

Apparently not.

Leigh fans opinions mean little , if it's the fans you refer to , then I don't disagree , although I haven't seen many posts by any fans discussing the supposed changes to structure , personally I hope it doesn't change , I'm looking forward to the next 8/9 games

Re: Toronto - Half Term Report : Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:44 pm  

It was fans i was talking about, though again not necessarily all leigh fans, nor only Leigh fans.

And we have seen the edifice that the argument for P+R was one for the wider interests fall away drastically and now it is as it always was. Self-preservation.

We have seen the argument that relegation drives crowds and interest disappear, we have seen the argument that standards would be driven from the bottom up disappear, we have seen the argument that clubs wouldnt return to damaging short-term thinking disappear, we are now starting to see resistance to the idea of a club building from the bottom up as Toronto have done.

As i said there is a large portion of the game not worried about its failure but terrified of its success. That growth might mean their club is left behind and therefor it is a bad thing even if it is good for the game as a whole