I've read this a few times and I still can't work out what you're saying.

It is hard to understand how two clubs each averaging 15k home support can't muster more than 12k between them for a semi-final.

The problem is the planning of the whole thing. You seem to get matches regularly and then when it is getting towards the climax of the competition you go almost 6 weeks before the semi's and then another 6 before the final. The whole competition is at the whim of the BBC and even so you can tell by the w/e coverage that it is very low on ther list of priorities. The CC has well and truly been replaced as the premier knockout comp by the play-offs in bot SL and Championship

Or not. All you needed to do to watch as normal was exert a tiny force upon your red button using a digit of your choice. If you had your remote to hand, you didn't even need to get off your arrse. How that can be seen as a slight on the game frankly baffles me.

If a Cup Final went to extra time, would you want the Beeb to stick with it, at the expense of whatever was scheduled next? Well then, why would they not extend the same courtesy to another sporting event which had ended in a tie? Or is to OK in your book to fsck off any sports fans, as long as they aren't RL fans?

Nonsense. They should have moved the golf to the Red button and showed the RL at the advertised time. If it was the Open I could understand but this was a nothing tournament but seemingly far more important than a RL Semi Final. I was in a pub expecting it to come and missed the first 5 minutes because I had to go and get the barmaid to find the remote and then find where the box was to use the Red button.

And what about RL fans who have taped the game because they are unable to watch it live. Will they not be fscked off when they see golf instead of the amazing game of RL they were expecting?

It was the Scottish Open.

Anyone who set their box to record will have recorded the right thing, not the golf.

Anyone who still uses tape has my admiration, but I don't think it's reasonable for the BBC to cater for approx. 3 people.

You should not be so dismissive of fans of other sports. Golf is pretty popular I hear and if you were fair you could equally say would golf fans not be fscked off when they saw RL instead of the finale ie playoff in the golf they were expecting. I would of course personally prefer the rugby league, but don't see why you are assuming that it has some sort of droit du seigneur to ride roughshod over others, that's all.