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by their own logic, the scum should cease all coverage of football with immediate effect.

Agreed.

Who cares newspapers are dead anyway it will have little impact my local co-op and BP garage have been giving free sun papers away for the last month and still struggles to get rid of them there’s that many news and media platforms now that this will go unnoticed

Maybe so,but it's the principal.

In which case RL should take a stand and encourage its clubs and fans not to buy that utter disgrace of a publication masquerading as a newspaper.

When the first item on their Rugby League area is about a rugby union player I don't think we're missing much. Now have to go and was my hands and eyes after looking at that.

I had to laugh.

The sun classifies itself as a newspaper?

It is one step below the national enquirer for accuracy.

Good bit of publicity for us this. In fact they’re publicising us more by doing this than they would the amount of people take notice of us by the six lines a month they write about us at any normal time

MSM are vile and corrupt to the core .
The BBC I personally despise .

Scousers are so bloody sensitive.

Meh! It's the comic lying around in greasy spoon cafes for the lorry drivers to "read" whilst waiting for their full English.

Care to elaborate?

This is such an opportunity for good publicity, especially in Liverpool.
If we go to places like Annfield to grow the sport then let's actually back the people of Liverpool. They feel strongly on this subject. It should be being talked about everywhere.

The stance by The Sun smacks of hypocrisy, after all they still report on games involving both Everton and Liverpool football clubs.

Disgraceful treatment off their readers who are RL fans and if they don't like their rejection of entry to Anfield, how can they justify their reaction which spoils the information sought by their RL audience.

What reaction has been made by the RFL. Not much if any I bet. Certainly not seen a published response from them.

If anyone knows different please send me a link.

We should at least set up a position to voice our displeasure at the terrible treatment that has been handed out to our game.

Would they have the balls to do the same to soccer?

Don't think so, very poor values by them and seems to signify reducing costs at the expense of Rugby League.

In fairness, it's arguably not the RFL's place to make comment. The Sun's stance has come about following a Super League event, not an RFL event.

Part of this is The Sun looking for an excuse. I doubt many people buy The Sun for it's RL content. I doubt many advertisers are in The Sun to reach RL supporters. Both of those are the opposite for its football coverage, which is why it still covers Liverpool and Everton.

As much as I feel sorry for Gary Carter, who is stuck in the middle of this, RL is just a cost that The Sun can do without.

I remember the days when the sun used to have a 4 page pullout every Monday for rugby league, akin to their goals galore section for football

What next - bears poo in woods?

We shouldn’t back Liverpool in this at all. They were the ones who approached SL and made an offer to host Magic Weekend. If they wanted SL there then they should be prepared to allow SL to have control of who can and cannot report on it. If we went to them begging to have Magic there then fair enough but you don’t go after customers and then dictate to them how it will go and what they can do.

The difference in this case compared to The Sun still reporting on Liverpool is that Liverpool made their stance clear The Sun wasn’t allowed at Anfield, however for Magic Weekend, SL and The Sun were given assurances that Carter would be allowed in. If Liverpool were honest from the start then fine but to backtrack late on is poor. If Anfield want some to host other sports at its venue then be upfront about this issue from the start before any deal is made, but I suppose fear that it’ll put off potential ‘customers’ lead them not to do so.

Whatever some people’s opinion of The Sun it’s still a big national paper and we as a sport aren’t in a position to lose any coverage even if it was limited it’s still better than zero and for what gain....to appease some Liverpool football fans we’re going to shrink our already poor media coverage when we have several other venues that’s could’ve hosted Magic and done a much better job than Liverpool did.

As has already been said, the sun banning RL will generate 1000% more coverage than the occasional article.
They maybe a national newspaper

But they are talking to a closed circle of people.

The sun is a dying animal, if it wants to die making wailing noises at RL, so be it.

It won’t be anywhere near “1000% more” and it’ll be for a day or two then forgotten about. Limited coverage isn’t great and makes RL look small time, zero coverage makes RL look non existent.

Right, because The Sun (which no one with any decency reads) writing the odd article about Super League makes RL look big time doesn’t it?

Says the one who’s written three paragraphs fuming over The Sun being banned from Anfield for magic weekend. =#FF0000Cut out the insults, thank you..

Will you two please get a room and leave the rest of us in peace.

NOBODY can blame Liverpool FC for banning all reporters from the Sun newspaper from entering their ground.
The utter mis-information peddled by that rag was a disgrace and if they (The Sun) no longer want to publish RL, so be it.

Even with the low esteem that RL is held in with the media world, it would be disappointing to think that ANY RL fan would buy such a pile of chip paper.

I know that RL needs all of the publicity that it can get but, I'm happy with Liverpool FC's principles on this one