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<blockquote data-quote="Car" data-source="post: 838531" data-attributes="member: 72474"><p>I'm not against Japan and especially Argentina. They had to earn it and the doors to SANZAR were closed for Argentina for far too long. But you just should not only look at the money, but also take the current level and the current market size into consideration. That goes more towards the likes of the US or also Germany. In ice hockey, the regularly extended the number of countries at the A World Championship when we would have been relegated without it. They feared we might slip away without it. What happened? The sport can only dream of the popularity it used to have in the 80s and 90s. In handball, they gave us a wild card for the 2015 World Championship, only to fail to reach a TV deal for this one. There were free streams on Youtube, but despite a lot of media coverage about the whole disaster surrounding it (I'm still not sure what really happened), the ratings were rather poor. In both cases, even fans here thought the preferential treatment was just ridiculous.</p><p></p><p>You just can't ignore on-pitch performances and an affluent, big country might not transform into good TV deals. The German sports market is notoriously difficult for non-German football. Yes, that's partly off topic (well, who knows with Super Rugby?), but if the level is too bad and people feel it's not about sports any more, that could backfire.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense in the long run to move the Sunwolves to another conference? Australia might be better since the level is weaker.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Car, post: 838531, member: 72474"] I'm not against Japan and especially Argentina. They had to earn it and the doors to SANZAR were closed for Argentina for far too long. But you just should not only look at the money, but also take the current level and the current market size into consideration. That goes more towards the likes of the US or also Germany. In ice hockey, the regularly extended the number of countries at the A World Championship when we would have been relegated without it. They feared we might slip away without it. What happened? The sport can only dream of the popularity it used to have in the 80s and 90s. In handball, they gave us a wild card for the 2015 World Championship, only to fail to reach a TV deal for this one. There were free streams on Youtube, but despite a lot of media coverage about the whole disaster surrounding it (I'm still not sure what really happened), the ratings were rather poor. In both cases, even fans here thought the preferential treatment was just ridiculous. You just can't ignore on-pitch performances and an affluent, big country might not transform into good TV deals. The German sports market is notoriously difficult for non-German football. Yes, that's partly off topic (well, who knows with Super Rugby?), but if the level is too bad and people feel it's not about sports any more, that could backfire. I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense in the long run to move the Sunwolves to another conference? Australia might be better since the level is weaker. [/QUOTE]
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