NickyKiss wrote:
I must admit when I saw that L1 and L2 football clubs would rather end the season than play behind closed doors because it would cost them money to play without crowds, I shuddered at what that means for superleague. The game is clearly going to ride the furlough scheme for as long as possible and doesn’t look to have any concrete plans to come back yet. The £16m from the government won’t go far if even the big clubs need bailing out.
Has to be why SL are targeting crowds returning for October (IIRC?). Behind closed doors just isn’t feasible even with opening up new revenue streams such as streaming games online for £5/£10 for example. You simply aren’t going to get 8k (or whatever is each clubs average attendance) logging in to watch. A quarter of that if you’re lucky and half if it’s a touch of God.
It’s led by Government obviously but I can seriously see the season being ended should social distancing rules continue or curtailed upon resumption when there be a second spike, as is widely expected, in winter.