I love the way that some posters on here keep believing that RL could survive without the Sky money.





Bless the lot of you.

So change its name from the rugby football league to skyrugbyleague asap then.

Whatever. As long as the game stays the same, I don't care what it's called.



But that kneejerk reaction doesn't stop the fact that our paymasters are keeping the game afloat, and there is nothing that can be done to change that. When Sky became the sole broadcaster of the game, I said at the time that this would be the upshot, but no, everyone wanted more money piling into the homeland clubs to (largely) stop the W***n stranglehold on the game.



Now see where that has got us.

how much money do the CC leagues get off sky?

They get money from the RFL. TV monies for the Thursday games comes from the co-op sponsorship of the championships, which i don't think is any more than £4000. Not sure about money from the RFL maybe somewhere between as little as 25k and as much as 100k. I am sure someone on here will know the figures though

Minor technical... Sky's not the sole broadcaster. BBC has highlights rights to Superleague, and exclusive rights to 7 live Challenge Cup games, including the final. More than half the people who watch RL in any form, are viewers of the BBC's coverage.

does the money that the CC leagues recieve from the rfl come from the sky contract or other revenues,do you know?

it all comes from the RFL 'coffers' which is achieved through a number of financial sources, thats how they get around saying its 'TV money' when in fact its RFL money.

the reason i ask is this,someone posted rl cant servive without sky money and i dont believe that.rl will survive as long as it wants to,imo its SLE that cannot survive without sky tv money.

thats probably more like it JC hence a few posts ago I said that the team coming down from SL won't be prepared for the sudden dramatic drop in income and IMO will suffer very badly and may not survive in the short term.

i dont believe they will chuck out a club without giving it financial assitance for the first year at least.

That would be a joke if they did. The team coming out of SL has had at LEAST 3 years of SL money which way outstrips what CC clubs get. They have also had more than enough time to get there ar$es into gear and meet the franchise criteria. If they haven't done this then they should realise whats coming and save some SL money for when they are in our league.



Any team coming down has had way more money given to them by the RFL over recent years than any team in our league. The last thing they should be getting is MORE money off the RFL for failing to meet franchise criteria.