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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Manx" data-source="post: 574868" data-attributes="member: 50236"><p>Problem is that without a major injection of TV money (or huge corporate/private sponsrshp) into the AP, they cannot remove the salary cap else they would end up with maybe four or five teams as the rest would be bust! There are not enough paying customers to make up the revenue to match the Top 14 budgets. </p><p></p><p>Why?.....Top 14 clubs have comparatively huge TV revenues and sponsors (Michelin/Aerospatiale and private benefactors) as French Rugby is at equal or very close to being equal in a TV following in France whereas mostly, club rugby in the UK gets little to no coverage on any tv channel other than the one that provides the feed as the viewing public do not "demand" it. How many times have you heard club scores given on ITV or BBC news or their sports news yet, on the latter, you get the Scottish and sometimes the Welsh and Irish football results....?</p><p></p><p>The position is even worse in the Rabo and the thoughts of getting the football mad Italians to start following club (not international) rugby and provide the tv audience in the reasonably near future is not realistic!</p><p></p><p>The non too distant future it is not hard to envisage all the present leagues being replaced by just one professional europe wide league with say 6 teams from France (they will have huge negotiation power), four from England, one from Wales and maybe three from Ireland...........the rest will revert to amateurism!!</p><p></p><p>This, of course, will have a huge impact on International rugby but, the French public, in the main, would not overly care as much as the other countries.....to them, club rugby is far more important....discuss!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Manx, post: 574868, member: 50236"] Problem is that without a major injection of TV money (or huge corporate/private sponsrshp) into the AP, they cannot remove the salary cap else they would end up with maybe four or five teams as the rest would be bust! There are not enough paying customers to make up the revenue to match the Top 14 budgets. Why?.....Top 14 clubs have comparatively huge TV revenues and sponsors (Michelin/Aerospatiale and private benefactors) as French Rugby is at equal or very close to being equal in a TV following in France whereas mostly, club rugby in the UK gets little to no coverage on any tv channel other than the one that provides the feed as the viewing public do not "demand" it. How many times have you heard club scores given on ITV or BBC news or their sports news yet, on the latter, you get the Scottish and sometimes the Welsh and Irish football results....? The position is even worse in the Rabo and the thoughts of getting the football mad Italians to start following club (not international) rugby and provide the tv audience in the reasonably near future is not realistic! The non too distant future it is not hard to envisage all the present leagues being replaced by just one professional europe wide league with say 6 teams from France (they will have huge negotiation power), four from England, one from Wales and maybe three from Ireland...........the rest will revert to amateurism!! This, of course, will have a huge impact on International rugby but, the French public, in the main, would not overly care as much as the other countries.....to them, club rugby is far more important....discuss!! [/QUOTE]
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