Whichever way you look at it, monday night games fail to put the to most important groups first. Fans and players.

The games should be at the weekend.

Attendances will be shocking at these games after a while.

I can understand families with young children being put off with the Monday night games but as mentioned, saving your beer tokens and watching Friday games in pubs is often a luring proposition instead of actually going, but attendances don't seem to suffer too much with that.

If I wasn't working late tonight I would definitely have been going the game, Monday night RL is appealing to me, there are too many other distractions on Friday and Saturday nights with ale and fast loose women about.

I love the idea, without football Monday nights are boring, get the missus to watch the soaps in bed and start the week with a bit of excitement, I live in the south and hardly ever watch the Saturday night games as no pubs around here want to show them and most of my friends have no interest to stay home to watch rather than go out!

Sky giving it the big sell with an exciting new angle in presenting.

It's great for TV viewers, probably a pain for away fans.

That said, in the winter era midweek/schoolnight games were fairly regular.

The game will start on Wednesday night at this rate

Don't see why there's so much hype for a mid table clash between 2 teams full of has beens...

Champions vs Runner Ups?

In much the same vein as the Thursday night games in the Championship, they're fantastic from a TV viewing point of view as it lets you see more games rather than clashing with other fixtures, but it's certainly a pain in the backside for those actually attending.

Translation:

I'm an insecure Weegan fan and I'm jealous that it's not all about us.

any football fans who have tuned in will probably have turned off by now, that feckin annoying drum!

I cry myself to sleep at night wishing my team could be in the bottom half of the table like Leeds.

Have a clutch at these

Translation:

Wah wah wah, nobodies mentioned Wigan yet.

Great game to start Monday Night Rugby. Have Sky done anything differnet from there normal Sat stuff? Got in at 9pm so only seen second half

Much better second half than first, Saints are infinitely better than the cup match.

Cringing at Eddie constantly mentioning football fans though.

Enjoyable game. Bit cringeworthy with Eddie convinced that every viewer is actually a 'soccer' fan, not to mention the begging from Wilkin just now for people to turn up to the Magic Weekend. Too many of the commentators (and now the players it seems!) are far too concerned with wanting a marketing job than just letting the product do the talking - particularly annoying after a game as good as tonight!

I also noticed early on when a player picked up a knock that Eddie started going on about how football fans might be shocked and wondering why a player got up and kept playing on. That's right Eddie, patronise any football fans watching, that'll get them interested!

Saturdays every time for me.

same

He said something along the lines of we don't do stretchers in RL then Makinson goes & gets stretchered off in the second half

Maybe the football fans are just like us and don't take any notice of his inane ramblings.

Miles better than a saturday when games are all over the place. Didnt seem to do effect the attendance.

I wonder what all these soccer fans do when their teams play hundreds of miles away on week night?

I wasn't sure about a Monday game but I enjoyed it - having watched the Friday game and been to the lads game on Saturday, it's nice to have a break; if nothing else, it did wonders for marital harmony over the weekend and got me out of an evening of watching documentaries about fat people/gypsies/obsessive hoarders or whatever other drivel was on the telly last night.

Good to see both sets of supporters out in numbers too - it was quite a spectacle.

I would have liked the Friday and Saturday/the ocasional Sunday night games kept with an extra match on the Monday.