Cant help thinking MSK or Premier sports or whatever they are calling themselves nowadays have shot themselves in the foot by making their channel a subscription only one from today.

Most of us on here I would imagine have little or no interest in the Gaelic football and if we were going to pay £7 a month it would be purely to watch the NRL. Barry McKenzie is a lucky boy... I live in a flat provided by my employer and we have Sky already installed... I did ask whether they would fork out an extra £7 a month so I could watch the remainder of the games live... not surprisingly they told me to fork off.

Seems a strange time to swap over to a subscription service especially as there are not many rounds left anyway.

As we all know live NRL can be viewed on a variety of different sites live online anyway and Sky do a pretty good midweek round up of all the NRL games.

So just WHY have this Irish channel gone subscription this late in the season?

I think I would have brought it in at the start of the 2011 NRL season if it had been me. Surely more people would subscribe if they had a full seasons footy ahead of them?

Barry McKenzie suspects MSK/Premier sports are destined to go the same way as Setanta did now.

Bad move in my opinion.

Good coverage, lots of repeats. Ill get it. Probably. Beats watching union, soccer, cricket.

No, the quality of the picture whenever I've watched it has been akin to that of a dodgy online feed. I'll watch that for free thanks.

Its far better quality now than it was at first.

I still wouldnt pay £7 a month to watch it though... not this late in the season.

No

It's not for the NRL, it's been made subscription because of the GAA All-Ireland Semi this week, that's why they've put it to subscription

NOT.A.CHANCE

You cheapskate

Barry, do you enjoy a bit of GAA?

I've watched a couple of games of GAA footy... seems quite good actually. I could probably get into it if I watched it more.

Wouldnt be my first choice of sport though.

Ive signed up. Its another £7 on top of all the other subsciption fees but watching the NRL is my fav sport to watch alongside ashes cricket.

I agree though Baz, cant see them making much money out of UK based NRL viewers.

Positive is weve got 4/5 live games for the NRL fans like myself.

Negative is the best rugby league is not accessible to the general sports fan. If the games were on itv4 or sky with millions of potential viewers you may get a few more people interested in the sport.

That will all change by next January





I can feel another 5-0 whitewash coming on

How much does it cost to watch Super League on Sky, especially if you have very little interest in Football ?

Bear in mind you are tied into an initial annual subscription to Sky, Premier Sports is a two month minimum contract.

How much money do you think Premier Sports have made in the last few months from the 'adverts' ?

I bet sales of Gaymers Cider have rocketed.

Thats all I have seen them advertise.

That advert really gets up my goat actually and I wouldnt buy their cider out of principle

I couldn’t find the will to get up in the morning for the 2nd and 3rd state of origin games so no I won’t be paying extra board to watch something that I get as good on sky sports in super league at a more convenient time.

Me and mornings just don’t agree at the moment.

You should have told your mam to wake you up, missed out on 2 great games of rugby league damo.

Have you not seen your bowling attack recently baz. Pakistan managed to score 250+ the other week against some of your buffet bowlers.

I know the Aussies are slumping at the moment but they are not that bad.



As for Premier. I pay enough for SS and I really can't justify further outlay. I don't watch Irish sport and have no intention of starting. I would rather watch the Baseball on ESPN but ain't subscribing to that either. I may review at the start of next season, by which time Premier may well have gone the same way as Satanta.

And sales of Paint rollers

If I miss a good Leeds game am peed off



I quit a job because Leeds were back at Old Trafford in 2008 and I couldn't catch it live on the remote Italian coastline. Probably the worse decision in my whole life. I’m now forever stuck in an oblivion of doom and shall be a loss cause for the rest of my life thanks to that decision.

not paying anymore on top of what we have, got a letter today saying our sky will be going upto £70 a month! so its bye bye movie channel, HD and sky sports once the season is over, until the start of the new season in feb when we will re-subscribe for sports only

I can't justify paying an extra £7 a month for the NRL to the wife when she thinks that it is bad enough that I will watch English RL games that don't feature Hull KR, let alone games from the other side of the world.

And yet you still deny you're live in bar staff at the walkabout in the bush

I might as well be with the amount of time I spend in the place.

Can't work out if its the filthy toilets, the sticky dance floor or the front end of an old Holden EK someone has nailed to the wall that draws me back time and time again like a big fat moth (wearing a genuine 1997 Nike Superleague Sharks jumper match worn by Andrew Ettingshausen) to a flame.

If it was on ITV4, the picture quality would be abysmal and they would cut off to an advert break just as someone was about too score. Don't ITV now have about 15 to 20 mins of adverts every hour, after every try there would be a break.

Given that you can watch the highlights every week on Sky for free on NRL Fulltime I aint going to spend another £7 a month.