Liquid Gold
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It’s just because there are only 32 teams and 17 games. 8 home games a season. Add in college football if you want to get a better picture of attendances, some places regularly well over 100,000.
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tisza
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NFL teams sells around 96% of total available tickets. average TV audience per game around 16 million.
FBS college games average crowds of 41,000. Range being around 17.000 to 110.000 per game.
premier rugby attendances under 2 million mark in last uninterrupted season. BT sport had viewing figures around 170k per game pre-COVID.
Evo1883
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Bt sport is not the best platform in general for sport... Most people choose sky over bt and don't pay for both.
It must have a huge impact on TV figures... The 9 million was an official number for rugby union
NFL is poop
tisza
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Evo1883
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Was that the number used when they were getting the Govt to subsidize them
Mucca Mad Boys
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Wouldn’t mistake viewership with participation. If super league can get a TV deal, so can the Premiership. It’s that they’re asking for too much money.
Rugby Union needs to accept it’s a niche sport.
covcity4life
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Not talking participation.
Skybluefaz
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Skybluemichael
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Wasps award £2m contract for 'cutting-edge' training centreWasps award £2m contract to create 'one of finest training complexes in English rugby'
stupot07
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Just saw that, they were going to spend £7m on the higgs one.
£2m doesn't give you much.
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Skybluefaz
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That'll be the spare change from the 4 million they got to buy judo mats.
fernandopartridge
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"Well, it's got a lawnmower, can't get more cutting edge than that"
jordan210
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An RFU compliant 3G pitch costs around 600k + from scratch
Upgrades from a current artificial one. if it has the correct infrastructure is around 250k
" The £2m construction contract will also see extensive renovations of the 13-acre site." I doubt it. with the costs involved in just the pitch.
Upgrades from a current artificial one. if it has the correct infrastructure is around 250k
" The £2m construction contract will also see extensive renovations of the 13-acre site." I doubt it. with the costs involved in just the pitch.
fernandopartridge
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I think they mean a few tins of Dulux tbh mate
Skybluefaz
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Are they straight up just taking the piss out of us now?
fernandopartridge
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Looks like another little favour from CCC given that the commercial market is not interested in Wasps' car park. Can't remember the details of the deal to hand the car park over, but seem to recall there was a lot of furore about demand for hotels.
chiefdave
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I think the lease was on the basis of the hotel being built. Presumably if they don't build the hotel the lease stays with the council and they've found an alternative use for it.
Would actually be a good move from the council if this is something that is realistically going to happen. There's been talk of a hotel since the Ricoh was being built and its never happened. If there's a chance to bring something else to the city then go for it. Although you'd hope the lost parking spaces would be replaced.
fernandopartridge
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We've gone from Pie in the Sky to Hyundai in the Sky
chiefdave
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Coventry to get the world’s first airport for flying cars and delivery drones
Electric air taxis and autonomous drones will operate from a site next to the Ricoh Arena
Terry Gibson's perm
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Probably find the council have sold the land to London Wasps for 3p and then a mysterious group have bought the land for millions and it will suddenly appear in the council assets
There is no more need for a hotel there than my back garden, exhibitions will take a long time to come back and probably never to the same amount I have worked at lids and companies just spend fortunes often with little reward.
There is no more need for a hotel there than my back garden, exhibitions will take a long time to come back and probably never to the same amount I have worked at lids and companies just spend fortunes often with little reward.
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AOM
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Coventry. The Venice of the Midlands
shepardo01
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....with the tears of Duggins and his council cronies...
There's a reason it's on BT. If sky want something, they get it, the fact they've never gone all in on Premiership Rugby Union tells you all you need to know
covcity4life
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Yeah you can't tell me sky want rugby rights over nfl
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No because the nfl fills a really good time slot on a Sunday night when not a lot is on and has a growing fan base.Rugby would be at the wrong times of day.
last night I sat there thinking Sunday nights are shit with nfl.
chiefdave
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In recent days there's been a lot of complaints from those promised funding, such as National League football and Elite League ice hockey, that the terms for the promised funding have been significantly altered so that the funding is now loans and not grants or in some cases even the option of a loan has been withdrawn.
National League clubs are discussing not being able to complete the season and Elite League ice hockey have abandoned plans for there to be a season leaving Team GB players with no prep before playing in the top division of the World Championships against the likes of USA, Canada and Sweden - the top players in the world who are all playing.
Hopefully the same rules have been applied to all sports but would anyone be surprised if that wasn't the case.
I think the issue with football, people see the money flying around at the top, and say "sort it out yourselves"
When players are getting paid hundreds of thousands a week, i can fully understand the govt not wanting to throw more money at the problem.
Obviously its not that simple, but i expect that's how it looks from the outside.
When players are getting paid hundreds of thousands a week, i can fully understand the govt not wanting to throw more money at the problem.
Obviously its not that simple, but i expect that's how it looks from the outside.
Liquid Gold
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It's the perception that has stuck in the general public about football as a whole. Whenever someone mentions something on social media about football there are always the 'overpaid prima donna' comments, not realising that is the top (and second) level. The pyramid goes a lot further down than that but people don't give a shit.
Frostie
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Agree. What people forget though is football generates ridiculous money too & how much do they contribute to the economy in tax etc?