Hi Guys, Not sure how many of you out there subscribe to Setanta and watch the NRL, tests and Origins. However, their coverage of NRL has been whittled away to one game a week on Saturday mornings. Which seems extreme considering Setanta 2 is showing teleshopping in its place on Fridays. Anyway, if any of you feel like helping a cause, I have just fired off an E-mail to setanta through their feeback section (if anyone has a better address to send to please let me know). www.setanta.com/uk/Contact-Us/ Head here and help out our great game! Without NRL coverage there is no reason for me to subscribe to a second rate broadcaster.

Hi Guys, Not sure how many of you out there subscribe to Setanta and watch the NRL, tests and Origins. However, their coverage of NRL has been whittled away to one game a week on Saturday mornings. Which seems extreme considering Setanta 2 is showing teleshopping in its place on Fridays. Anyway, if any of you feel like helping a cause, I have just fired off an E-mail to setanta through their feeback section (if anyone has a better address to send to please let me know). www.setanta.com/uk/Contact-Us/ Head here and help out our great game! Without NRL coverage there is no reason for me to subscribe to a second rate broadcaster.

is this freeview setanta or setanta you subscribe through your sky box, i have the latter and will be most dissapointed if this is happening

I have spoken to Setanta and they came up with some very lame sounding story that they are giving 'priority' to the Magners league until it finishes which is, apparently, first week in May.

After that they say they will show more NRL (they have the rights to show up to 3 live games).

They are skint and will be gone by the end of the year......

This is taken from their website :

"THE BEST OF THE NRL

Setanta also has the pick of the Action from the NRL in Australia so you can ensure you don't miss out as we broadcast a minimum of 2 LIVE matches per round of the regular season, plus the Semi-Finals, Finals & Grand Final as well as the State of Origin Matches."

I too am unimpressed by there being only one game shown this weekend. Could they be done under the trade descriptions act or false advertising?

Like I said elsewhere I expected clashes when the IPL starts (mid April) but even delayed coverage would be better than not bothering at all. It's pretty poor to go from 3 games to 1 game a week.

alas...."invitation to treaty", not trades description.

I get it on Freeview so the games are already delayed enough since the channel doesn't start broadcasting until midday anyway. It's very frustrating since I, and many others I know of, only subscribe to Setanta in order to watch the NRL.

Incidentally the Aussie Rules coverage remains at two days a week. Can't believe the Magners League excuse! I didn't realise those games kicked off at 10:30am on a Friday Morning!

Only Eels Vs Raiders this weekend.

Think i'll send an email their way.
Not impressed

There are tens of thousands of Leeds Rhino fans who would subscribe to Setanta if they could be guaranteed the regular telecast of either Wests Tigers or Sydney Roosters matches, so that they can follow the progress of Gareth Ellis and Jordan Tansey.

The failure of Setanta to provide three NRL matches a week makes this Leeds fan surveillance most unlikelỵ.

I've emailed, I begrudge paying £12.99 for 2 games, so I'm really pi55ed off with this news.

With the loss of games in the Premiership a lot of people will be revoking their subscription i feel and they cant rely on Magners League and IPL within England as they arent widely watched so that could be an explanation

e-mail sent. I will be cancelling my subscription if this continues. Who wants to watch Woking v northwich anyway?!

Well if this is all they will provide then one is well within their rights to go online and seek other avenues to view the NRL.

Apart that is from within law where there is no such right. And so consequently the AUP where anyone who wished to test it will find themselves asserting their right to use other web sites.

That warning not specifically aimed at you, Boris, but I am sure anyone who it does applies to knows who they are.



Cannot see how that would apply. You cannot make an invitation to treat for something you do not have to offer. If anything protects Setanta is would be the contract which would no doubt allow them to change their offering.



They are a season and a bit early then as they do not lose any games until the 2010-2011 season.

Michael.

I'll be cancelling as well. Got a new Freeview box with three months at half-price, and thought "that's me sorted for the NRL and Origin games, but didn't realise that they don't start broadcasting on Freeview until mid-day.

They said that?Muppets.Didn't realise the Magners League now kicked off same time as the NRL!

Very pi$$ed about this especially as I'm paying the normal £12.99 and an extra £2.99 for multi-room so just fired off an email to them and will be cancelling if they don't change things soon-doubt they'll respond though.Talk about being ripped off.

i cant beleive this, and their excuse seems lame given that the magners league doesnt remotely clash with the NRL and during the day they mostly show reruns of football or the stupid football review shows. I wont be cancelling my subscription because i watch college footy and ice hockey but i will be emailing them about this.

Let's hope so. Then perhaps we can get NRL back on Sky, which I DO subscribe to.

i have emailed in to tell them I would like to know why they aren't broadcasting as much NRL as they say they will.

Just realised looking through my TV guide, that Setanta Golf (OK I think its only available to satelite viewers) shows mostly re runs of Golf tournaments, not knocking Golf in any way, but could they not do what they do with the american sports and broadcast the fixtures that clash on the spare channel?

I forgot to mention this while e-mailing them, but will wait for their response and go from their.

Is this true? So you can't watch the game on Saturday Morning?

If you do cancel setanta, then make sure you write to them to do so, I had murder with them when I tried to cancel at the end of last year.

And I will never grace their services ever again.

This is what makes me suspicious of their intentions in this matter. they havesetanta 2, setanta ireland which could also show them without affecting any live broadcasts.

Does anyone know if they are even going to show the other games on delayed broadcast?