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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 893388" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>Financial reality bites. Pro14 had to do this to try and retain players and into may be good news that a player other than Sky and BT has entered the market. The league's only gameplan is to try and retain as much playing and coaching talent until such time as TV money from Italy or "emerging markets" kicks in and they can maybe develop more flexible options for coverage in the British Isles. </p><p></p><p>This sounds fanciful and bad, but really, losing your top players to the Top14 and England and your mid level players to the French second division would be pretty inevitable and lead to a downward spiral with no realistic escape. </p><p></p><p>The channel is available on "Sky and Virgin platforms", but I'm a dinosaur so I don't know what kit I'd need to get that. I'm not giving Murdoch a penny and I won't be getting fibre optic, so I may be sunk. </p><p></p><p>If they show the Italian sides and Edinburgh with English commentary then £10 per month becomes reasonable in my eyes. If it goes north of that it'll only be the odd live game and hopefully a magazine show on terrestrial. I could see my interest waining in those circumstances.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 893388, member: 74121"] Financial reality bites. Pro14 had to do this to try and retain players and into may be good news that a player other than Sky and BT has entered the market. The league's only gameplan is to try and retain as much playing and coaching talent until such time as TV money from Italy or "emerging markets" kicks in and they can maybe develop more flexible options for coverage in the British Isles. This sounds fanciful and bad, but really, losing your top players to the Top14 and England and your mid level players to the French second division would be pretty inevitable and lead to a downward spiral with no realistic escape. The channel is available on "Sky and Virgin platforms", but I'm a dinosaur so I don't know what kit I'd need to get that. I'm not giving Murdoch a penny and I won't be getting fibre optic, so I may be sunk. If they show the Italian sides and Edinburgh with English commentary then £10 per month becomes reasonable in my eyes. If it goes north of that it'll only be the odd live game and hopefully a magazine show on terrestrial. I could see my interest waining in those circumstances. [/QUOTE]
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