i've met parry and he is a grade one prick

What did McGuire say?

I agree, although I don't watch football. Just got BT sport and cancelled Sky. The RU coverage is excellent from BT. I do like Sky also except the one big issue, their lead commentary team of Harrison and Barnes. Barnes simply doesn't comment on what is actually happening on the pitch and Harrison doesn't know what's happening on the pitch. Sky's other teams however are very good.

Big improvements then. Excellent.

Is that Hardaker on the right?

Disappointed to see they have retained Barrie and Terry.

James Graham seems to have lost a pound or two.

I agree about BT's RU coverage and presentation and Union has become a much better spectator sport with high skill levels and a depth of talent.

& I agree with you on this.
The occasional interminable scrum fest is the main fly in the ointment.
So much of that is down to the referee.

Agreed, the quality in coverage is better than Sky on most criteria... proper commentary (as opposed to Sky's plethora of screaming banshees), erudite panel discussions, less adverts and even the picture quality is better, whether it be in SD or HD, as Sky channels are far too digitally compressed.

I like Aussie Rules, UFC and German soccer so it's ideal for me. As Sky were fleecing some of their customers for an extra £16.95 to watch tedious second-rate boxing at the weekend, I watched UFC 206 instead at no extra cost. The recent addition of all Aussie cricket is a very nice bonus too. The Ashes Series in less than 12 months time on BT Sport is another huge kick in Sky's goolies, as much as the loss of all Champions League soccer continues to be.

I've dumped Sky... don't need it... full of screaming, shouting and balling, intrusive ad's and I'm not Murdoch's biggest fan. Received a phone call from Sky last week offering me 75% discount off any package for 12 months which I turned down. Since the quality and entertainment levels in SL are so poor, I doubt I'll be tempted to re-subscribe in February either, even if that discount is still on the table.

Clermont v Ulster at the weekend was one of the best games of any version rugby I've seen in a long while. The attacking and handling skills were superb.

Now I have broadband fast enough to stream I ditched Sky this week. Amazon Prime for 79 quid a year is a give away. Already saved that on free shipping over Christmas.
Get BT sport with my phone deal.

I also get BT Sport via phone deals. I flit between BT and Plusnet (owned by BT) every year (on 12 month contracts) in order to take advantage of new customer offers. I currently pay £6 a month for BT Sport and watch it on a Sky+HD box.

Don't bother with Amazon prime or Netflix as I can access all films and series using Kodi for free. And they are all ad-free too

If I want to watch the latest episode of GoT, Walking Dead or whatever, I don't want it serially interrupted by 20 minutes of ads, as is the case on Sky.

The only other essential for me is a PVR with recording (essential) and live pause (not so essential) features. Freesat using a Humax-HDR1100s covers that base for me.

Anyone interested in the last cpl of posts should check out Sportsnation HD. You won't regret it.

It's not free.

Bullies, belittles and labels sports fans as "cheap" for daring to ask about potential discounts on tickets.

Brags about getting the cheapest deal he can on broadband then STEALS £1000s of films and tv series by illegally streaming them online.

Hypocrisy Rules!





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Just done the same, used to be on Plusnet, then switched to BT a couple of months ago, same deal for sport. Also watch on Sky box.
Amazon Prime for me works because of the free shipping. Buy all Christmas and kids birthday presents on line, shipping charges add up quick (especially when you buy your son a weight bench, and 160kilos of assorted weights).

i have kodi on the amazon fire stick.
plus a zgemma box.
i mainly use a bt box mind.
got rid of sky. terrible service

Getting rid in January. I have had SKY for years and have everything including internet. Price has crept up and up to the point it costs almost 100 quid a month! I'm not continuing to pay to line footballers pockets whilst the sports i actually bother with are scaled back or cut altogether.

I know someone who can get me a quality box that does all the channels for a fraction of the cost of SKY.. will also mean i get BT and Premier sports included so will have Champions league and NRL back on the menu

that's a zgemma/ open box.
had sky for 25 years and had enough

£50 a year for Sportsnation HD. Every sporting channel available, all pay per view events & EPL 3pm kick offs included. And if you can't be d with Kodi they have an android/iOS app.

I'm a bit behind the times. Does that mean that if you have an Android TV you can get Sportsnation without a firestick?

I think only Sony and Philips at present are fully android, so you could on those yeah. Otherwise it would be a firestick/android box connected to your tv.

It's entirely honourable and sensible for an increasing number of customers to turn their backs on lining the pockets of tax-dodging, phone-hacking, working class hating billionaires like Murdoch and switching instead to legal, open-source software for research purposes. There are lots of interesting add-ons out there which are well worth investigating



Far better to aid the struggling coffers of a sport with severe financial issues like RL by investing some of those savings made by paying a fair price for tickets to internationals, as opposed to staying at home because one cannot secure discounted tickets for a fiver each like some were in 2013.

Just looked at their list of channels. Pretty much the same channel lineup as an add-on called IPTV Stalker (though thankfully it's not been up and running for over a decade

), which also became subscription-based a year or two ago.

If you want guaranteed access to sports then you have to pay a small subscription. I've no idea how good these pay services are because I don't use any. OTOH, all the sport is there for free elsewhere but it's never guaranteed that you'll find it, or that the stream will be consistently good.

On the subject of Kodi, it's free to download and watch on your PC/Laptop. If you want to watch it on your TV, any droidbox will do, or install Kodi on a firestick if you've got one. A good broadband connection preferably using an ethernet cable (as opposed to wifi) also helps.