You, Sir, are and idiot. :/

That Tiger Woods has been on telly a lot lately, I thought he might have been in with a shout.

I was personally thankful for the awards night. Saved me watching the poop that was on ITV. Though I was relegated to the bedroom.

There is a great deal of anti any sport other than RL on this site. That might be to be expected, but I am a RL fan who also considers himself to be a sports fan as well.
I felt the awards were just about right last night.
Young sportsman had to be Daley. World Champ in a highly skilled sport at his age.
Team I would have given to the ladies Cricket team as they have swept all before them.
Personality was spot on. Once you take away the anti football blinkers and think about what Giggs achieved this year at the age of 36 when he is competing with players half his age is frankly fantastic. It is testimony to how well he has conducted himself both on and off the field and dedicated himself to his sport. Yes its a team game but to remain at the top for the best part of 20 years and still be a stand out player in a team who won two top trophies and reached the final of the top club competition is amazing.
As for the others. Well Button has been dedicated to his sport as well and if he had possibly done a little better in the later half of his season may have stood a chance of winning.
Ennis again dedicated and to fight back from Olympic disappointment and rise to the top was brilliant. The rest would have all been worthy winners.
Seve has always been a hero of mine and it was great to see him take an award.

RL got about as much as it could have hoped for. The beeb show very little RL now that we have sold our sole to Sky. We are never going to compete on programmes like this with Football, Union , Cricket, Athletics and snooker as they are the sports that the beeb love the most. Equally to throw our dummies out of the window and bemoan the lack of RL is totally childish. Its a programme and night for all sports fans.

What cricket is on the BBC?

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I thought it was pretty well balanced - in real terms nothing major happened in RL this year. I don't think anyone could argue that RL deserved to be above any of the longer features from the night. At least our segment was better than the club RU segment which was 80% about Bloodgate



We need to get over this victim mentality - some people won't be happy until SPOTY is presented by Eddie and Stevo.

Didn't watch it and frankly who cares? As for the comment about the beeb "showing little RL now we have sold our sole to sky"....please explain the saturation coverage of cricket, Union, soccer etc all of which have 'sold their souls' also. RL being on SKY has knack all to do with lack of coverage, it's just not 'one of the gang' and that's all there is to it.

Coming from you that means feck all



Whats up still dont get sarcasm?

41 seconds to be precise.

Tick followed tock followed tick followed tock...

If you cannot understand the facts that Football and Cricket are national past times regardless of what channel they are on. Union is in the nations blood (rightly or wrongly) then you are clearly living in a different dimension.

You are exactly the type of person I was talking about with my point. RL is a small time sport which is enjoyed by a small group of people in a narrow corridor of the country. To the majority of people in the UK if it was to disappear off the radar for the rest of their lives they would not even notice. Football, Cricket and Union plus Tennis, Snooker and Athletics are the main sports for the beeb and the UK people. Yes many other sports are played including RL but they are minority sports and one or two on here need to wake up and accept that or remain to look like bitter people.

It's all Quins fault

Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs running down the wing, loved by the Reds, feared by the Blues, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs !

Well done Giggsy, well deserved for near enough 20 years at the top of the game. LEGEND !

How much coverage will we get if the beeb loose the CC.

22 seconds instead of 41.

the top 10 courtesy of someone on another forum

Ryan Giggs (29.4% 151,842 votes)
Jenson Button (18.74% - 96,770)
Jessica Ennis (15.58% - 80,469)
Mark Cavendish (55,960)
Beth Tweddle (38,907)
Tom Daley (36,929)
Andy Murray (19,936)
Andrew Strauss (17,237)
David Haye (13,916)
Phillips Idowu (4,507)

pretty poor numbers compared to the 10m plus xfactor votes. given xfactors claims of 20m viewers i wonder what this tosh got?

What on earth are you talking about?



I know exactly how small RL is. I also have absolutely no interest in those other 'sports' as I find them very boring, that's why I take no notice of them. I don't give a toss if the rest of the country are doing something else, I know what I like.

Come to think of it, if you were watching the SPOTY, this means you missed the X-Factor. As such you were in the minority and when will you realise everyone is more interested in that than some sports show etc etc etc.....logical?

Great another " .... doesn't like league thread"

pretty much every minute of England international cricket is featured on Test Match Special - so in terms of broadcast time, it is possibly the BBC's biggest sport.

But surely more people go to watch League than Union (not including internationals), Cricket, Tennis, Snooker and Athletics so do you not think that it should be given equal airtime on that brown-nosing contest they show once a year?

The problem is the internationals are the only part that count in any sport other than Football. Union have a credible international scene, Cricket has the Ashes, Athletics have the Olympics, Tennis has Wimbledon.

I bet the average person doesn't know who the best Guinness Premiership side are, or who the best County Championship side are, whose the best athletes outside the Olympics or who has won any other major tennis tournaments outside the Grand Slams.

We need that international scene to appeal to the average person then we might get some coverage.

The way the show was put together this year seemed to be much more focussed on the achievements of the final ten rather than a review of what has gone on in various sports over the last 12 months. IMO it looked like everyone got their airtime cut and league didn't necessarily come off much worse than say domestic cricket or union in that regard.

Pretty much the way I saw it. Focus on the 12, with all the domestic sports getting roughly the same amount of time, even football only got an overview of who won the trophies.

Freudian slip from a hull fan