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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 893389" data-attributes="member: 76349"><p>The Pro14 is increasingly moving towards paid TV which is a massive mistake IMO. I think they're underating the disinterest in the league to be honest and are jumping at short term money. Very few are going to pay money to watch the league and the reality is that outside Ireland very few of the teams have any sort of mass following. Most of the people that want to watch the league are season ticket holders for their respective teams anyway and aren't going fork out their money to watch the other games. </p><p></p><p>There's a lot of talk about how the league has improved massively but in reality it would be impossible not to improve on what it was during the 2000s when it was quite literally a warm up competition for the Heineken Cup. Munster could have won it six or seven times in a row if they'd been bothered. We're still miles behind the Aviva or the Top14. There's no away support for obvious reasons but with the exception of Leinster, Munster and Ulster the average attendances are all below 10k. It's tempting to take the short term money especially with the size of the French and English TV deals but the league needs exposure if it's going to keep growing and this is a massive step in the wrong direction. If I can't watch it at least semi-regularily I'll go back to not really following it, I can live off the European Cup and a Leinster season ticket.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 893389, member: 76349"] The Pro14 is increasingly moving towards paid TV which is a massive mistake IMO. I think they're underating the disinterest in the league to be honest and are jumping at short term money. Very few are going to pay money to watch the league and the reality is that outside Ireland very few of the teams have any sort of mass following. Most of the people that want to watch the league are season ticket holders for their respective teams anyway and aren't going fork out their money to watch the other games. There's a lot of talk about how the league has improved massively but in reality it would be impossible not to improve on what it was during the 2000s when it was quite literally a warm up competition for the Heineken Cup. Munster could have won it six or seven times in a row if they'd been bothered. We're still miles behind the Aviva or the Top14. There's no away support for obvious reasons but with the exception of Leinster, Munster and Ulster the average attendances are all below 10k. It's tempting to take the short term money especially with the size of the French and English TV deals but the league needs exposure if it's going to keep growing and this is a massive step in the wrong direction. If I can't watch it at least semi-regularily I'll go back to not really following it, I can live off the European Cup and a Leinster season ticket. [/QUOTE]
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