At the moment, the whole XBall thing as far as us Euros goes, is on a knife-edge.
There are some people within the EXL who are just sticking their fingers in their earholes and humming, hoping it all goes away because their options are limited if it all goes go down.
They might as well get those same fingers and stick them up their ass for all the use it's gonna do because if the PSP does go pop, the EXL will follow, make no mistake about that.
The only salvation for us in that scenario is to have cut a deal with some Euro TV company or to have negotiated some deal with an outside sponsor that injects a siginificant amount of cash into the series.
As far as I know, no such deal with either a TV company or outside sponsor is imminent.
At present the promotion of these EXL events is heavily subsidised by Richmond, if that discontinued, the promoters just could not afford run EXL events.
The problem with Euro ball, is that at present, we are inextricably linked to the US; when they sneeze, we catch a cold.
From the symptoms some of us have been witness to, we better go find a bed somewhere.
Of course, we may all be wrong, in which case, TV is soon coming Stateside, the EXL is gonna sign up a deal that will mean hundreds of thousands of dollars comes flooding in saving the EXL and all of a sudden a pig flies past my head !!!!!
For the teams who have the resources, the correct stategy should be to maximise options, for some of those who cannot, accusing myself and Laurent of scaremongering or self-interest ain't gonna help one bit.
