Is the average price for a away game in the championship?

I'd also ask do we think we'll continue to play on a Sunday

Yes

I guess the short answer to the op is to check out a few clubs' web sites.

I wouldn't expect it to be much cheaper than SL though. Not many breeze block palaces to pay for, but the basic costs of running a club are still high and crowds tend to be quite a bit lower and there are no sugar daddies.

I can't see any point in changing the game day; there have been a few opportunities for fans to make a preference and Sunday has won every time. In fact, on the last occasion the winner was Sunday at 3 o'clock and the second highest was Sunday at 6.

I don't think any club in the Championship regularly plays any other day than Sunday around 3ish do they? Friday/Saturday KOs are usually a Super League thing I've always thought.

Don't know what the deal will be with TV kick offs next year, I know Sky have got the rights to the Championship back, but reading between the lines in this week's League Express it looks like they basically aren't going to bother until the Super 8s split - as otherwise I could have seen us being on quite a bit.

Yeah, agree with the other days being an SL thing ..and largely driven by TV requirements and the desire to not have to change around too much. Those pressures just don't exist elsewhere.

Just having a quick scan around, it seems the average ground entry for Championship clubs is £15

After speaking to a friend of mine who is a fax fan it seems to range from £12 cheapest to the max of £17 @ Featherstone

we'll probably be on TV a lot more next season so I would expect a few Thursday games (or whichever night SKY has planned for them).

Going from what the RFL said in their recent Q&A article, it doesn't look like Sky are showing ANY games from the Championship, other than the weekend in Blackpool and one game per week when we get down to the 8x8x8 qualifiers.

With Sky not showing very many Championship games it make you wonder why they bothered to get the rights, are the RFL really trying to increase the exposure of the game? or just taking an easy sell to Sky

Where in Blackpool will the rugby weekend be play'd

So one of the benefits of relegation - the absence of the stupid magic weekend fixtures for championship teams - has now been removed. We are so lucky.

Bloomfield Road football ground.

It’s probably because the competition is so complicated from next year, that it’s easier to sell everything to a single broadcaster – if Sky had SL and Premier had Championship, who would get the middle 8 – either side would be narked off that they weren’t getting to broadcast the end to the season they had spent 26 weeks covering. Also Sky don’t like sharing if they can get away with it – it’s exclusivity or nothing for them usually (unless they are forced to by the courts in the case of the Premier League), hence why England RL games aren’t on Sky anymore as they wanted exclusivity, but the RFL wanted some games on the BBC.

Suits me fine, means we can go under the radar a bit, otherwise I could have seen us being on TV quite a bit and would have been disruptive playing on a Wednesday/Thursday or whenever they deemed necessary.

To be honest, I'll be glad if they DON'T show Championship games.

If they did, we'd probably be on every other week - given that, frankly, we are a big fish in that (smaller than SL) pond. And that brings disruption, changes to the schedule, short turnarounds, and smaller crowds for Thursday night games.

Playing every Sunday suits us just fine. Far easier to sell season tickets if we know that is going to happen.

Spot on - never easy to get away for weekday games, so Sunday afternoons much better

Would be nice if they did a programme like "Championship Fulltime" like the current SL one showing highlights of all the games

At the very least, I would hope that the RFL include highlights from the games on their website, like they do currently with the SL games.

If I'm honest I'm far from sure I'll be keeping Sky sports if the coverage of the championship remains as it is. I enjoy the SL games don't get me wrong, but the big driver is how it relates to my team and next year..well, it just won't relate.

I know what you mean - in terms of the league being covered - but as a curiosity even with reduced just middle 8 coverage I wonder if we could still end up being on Sky more next year than this year (or at least as much) even if it is just the middle 8.

How many games have we been on this year? Four? All I can think of is Wakey away and Hull KR at home - as well as the Magic Weekend and Catalans away trip - both of which they show for every team anyway. A subject for another thread, but that must be the absolute bare minimum they can show a team. There is still a chance they might move the London game if everything like league leader's shield and playoff places are sorted mind...

To be honest, showing the 'play-off' between the bottom two clubs is probably the antithesis of everything Sky stand for. I mean, it [icould[/i be a brilliant match, with two sides having nothing to lose giving the ball some air.....I've seen some super games played by local teams in the park, when it comes down to it. It would be a difficult game to market though, and there's probably one game which is likely to be a 'rehearsal' for one of the play-off games - a much more Sky-like game to show for my money. You can almost hear Eddie now, "Just imagine how much better the play-off game is going to be..."...especially if neither side wants to show its hand before the 'big game' and they include lots of numbers between 17 and 40 in the teams.

London V Bulls? Sounds a bit too much like a championship match to me!