Yup. RL features on a prime time Friday night slot on Sky Sports 1 most weeks of the year. Plenty of people have Sky these days and if you don't you probably have a mate who does.

Sarries average around 6000 at Watford - 80,000 at Wembley. Go figure.

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Why do people ignore the total and utter lack of any marketing since 1996?



2003 we made the play-offs...in 2004 the crowds dropped.......The club and the game were guilty of "expecting people to roll up"..........in fact, they have been guilty of that for 16 seasons if we're honest.



Saracens owner took a punt. 20,000 tickets at a fiver....the rest starting at 15 quid......minimum income from the game in ticket sales 1,045,000.



Harlequins RL ticket revenue since 2006......2,850,000 over 79 games........and if it costs 30k a game to rent the stoop, I reckon Sarries made more profit from 1 game than Quins did in 6 years from ticket sales.



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people on here in their cosy RL comfort zone don't seem to realise that for RL to succeed outside the M62, a new audience has to be won. A winning team will only attract the picky (fickle as Purdo called them)-RL types. When we got to Wembley in '99 did the 15,000 new 'London' fans turn up? We have to do what Union had to do and attract new people. A winning side is great but will it get more publicity in London - no chance.

Don't under estimate how important terrestrial coverage is. I have vague memories of Grandstand showing rugby league back in the 80s and early 90s but was never a fan. Football was all that mattered. Then one Sunday in 2008 I literally stumbled across a Challenge Cup semi on the BBC. Ended up watching the whole game and loved it. I'm not a fan of Union and had always seen "rugby" as one pretty tedious sport. But the game I saw on the Beeb was totally different to what I thought "rugby" was.



I did a quick search online to find if there was a southern team and ended up going to the Quins RL next game (last game of the season v Catalans). It helped that Quins won that game - don't underestimate the importance of a winning team too! - but just as important was that the whole experience was family friendly and loads of kid-friendly stuff going on. Don't under estimate the appeal of Buck and Dusty and facepainting!



I've ended up being a season ticket holder since 2010 and have even done a couple of away trips. None of this would have happened if the sport hadn't been shown on terrestrial.

Really

no, he is talking out of his behind.

Prove it. You show me any significant increase in publicity in London following a winning streak in London.

tbf when was the last time we had a winning steak

Was there increased publicity when they got to the CC Final or were the 15000 fans a myth?



Its a fact (not one of GF's non factual facts) that winning creates interest, that being fans, publicity, sponsorship etc

Darth-what about the beginning of last year



..........or the 2 home winning streak we are currently enjoying

those 15,000 turned up at Wembley, in fact the SL gates dropped after the CC run that season, those 15,000 never came anywhere near the Stoop!



Nobody is saying that a winning side does not increase the gates, it does little or nothing to increase the awareness of SL in the capital as the increase in gates is mainly from existing floating RL types. It does not solve the problem.