ledzepsfr wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:09 am
SimonG wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:40 pm
ageinghoody wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:13 pm
Three Prem clubs foundered financially in quick succession in the last 18 months The fans of the surviving clubs aren't happy about paying the same season ticket price for fewer
meaningful games at the same time that more of their top players depart for the perceived greater security of French or Japanese wage packets.
Maybe there wasn't much of a choice if the extra cash has to come from somewhere.
But if the TV money comes at the cost of dwindling crowds then what will happen when the TV money is cut or runs out?
Either way I don't think the Premiership has any future in its current format.
So what do you propose for the future/growth of the premiership?
Very simple. Force clubs to live within their means by introducing something along the lines of football's fair play rules - and administer it properly.
But that requires people to accept the fact that in general the public in this country have very little interest in club rugby and it can only survive in the current format thanks to benevolent sugar daddies. This of course won't happen so the Premiership will limp on with more and more clubs going bust when the backers eventually stop their funding for one reason or another whilst those that remain keep spouting on about growing the game in a hopeless sense of self-delusion.
Which is why I say the Premiership has no future in the current format.