Hey, this thread is for fans of RL which you are not, so sod off and b!tch somewhere else BarneySook



See you back at LU in 3 months derp

I sincerely hope so , just to see the moaning that would result from SL fans having to travel midweek as the Championship fans have had to for a few years now

I did slightly understimate the number of games, there are 138 games live on Sky and ESPN, meaning 3.6 games per week.

It's very rare to get 5 in one weekend.

No it isn't, 5 games is the norm. You aren't factoring in the weekends when there are no PL fixtures for things like the FA Cup and Internationals. When it is a 'normal' PL weekend there are always 5 games shown.

His/her figure were based on 138 televised games divided by the number of rounds (3icon_cool.gif which obviously comes out at 3.6, now if 5 was the norm that would mean 190 games shown, so either the number of games is significantly greater than 138 or 5 is definitely not the norm. When he/she said per week they probably mean round of fixtures.

Sky have got the coverage of RL pretty much spot on IMO. Friday night games are the preferred choice of a few clubs now and the likes of Wigan seem to have the marketing of the less "popular" or TV games pretty much in hand....Salford, wth their new ground, really need to push the Friday Night games, what with the 2 soccer teams pretty much playing every other night at some stage of their season....
Saturday evening is again spot on, IMO, as it leaves Sunday afternoon free for attending games......Soccer will always dictate the KO times and programming of other sports in the UK...RL is treated pretty well by SKY and let's not forget how much coverage the game would get without them....let alone where we'd be without their money......I mean without Ruperts Money Wigan would still be Challenge Cup Holders...



What the OP doesn't understand is exactly just how big soccer is in the UK, which is perfectly understandable given he lives in NSW and doesn't understand anything outside his own back yard.

Whatever you say hornsgle.

The last point is correct - Eels has no understanding of the importance of soccer here. An example BBC 5 Live is a public service broadcaster this is a typical week of 7-11 Mon/Friday, 12-8 Sat/Sun

Monday - Live PL and discussion
Tuesday - Live Champions League
Wed - Live Champions League
Thur - Live Europa League
Friday - Soccer discussion 7-10
Sat - Live games back to back 12-5, 5-8 various soccer discussional stuff
Sun - Live games back to back 12-6, discussional soccer programmes until 8

If the CL/EL is not on they will have any soccer they can find - this week FA Cup replay between 2 4th division sides. The PL stopped them having 3 games back to back on Saturday and Sunday due to saturation issues so what do they do they start live broadcasts of the championship. No other sport has a chance - they put RL on a digital channel that is impossible to follow in the car.

The fact you have nothing much else to do but watch 7/8 games of RL a week should be a real concern to you? Maybe you need to get out a bit more?

FFS, all I was asking is simple, would a 3rd game be any good and would you support it, yet the idiots like Hornsgle and Sad Paradise have come in and twisted to make it look like I expect you to get every flipping game of the round shown bloody live.

You two trolls can go %%% yourselves.

Btw Sad Parasite, how the %$#@ do you know how many games I watch a week you know it all know nothing?

DERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Calm down.

Two games per week is enough thanks.

How about delayed coverage of a Sunday game around 9pm with Bill Arthur,O'Connor and McDermott plus a round up of the rest of the weekend action instead of the dross we get on SSN at 9:30?Sure we had something similar to this in the 90s.

Yes Sky used to do this when it was still the Stones Bitter Championship. The programme was called 'The Big League'.

And it is this format that the Championships should have

Jet Black got banned for less

Must have touched a nerve?

Pack it in

That's simply not true.

Weekend of 14th Jan - 3 live games.
Weekend of 21st Jan - 4 live games
Weekend of 4th Feb - 4 live games
Weekend of 11th Feb - 3/4 live games

So from the first 4 weekends I looked at, none of them had 5 games.

Now the difference with PL games is that they play rounds in the midweek, and at times there will be a couple of games there too.

The point I was making, and was confirmed by another poster was that the contract for Sky and ESPN is 138 games, meaning an average of 3.6 games.

It is extremely rare to get 5 live games on a Sat/Sun/Mon. There aren't always Saturday early games, or Saturday late games, or Monday evening games. There are often 1 or 2 of these each weekend.

I am not sure there is enough quality in the league to have more than 2 games a week. Maybe when the standards improve and the league is more competitive we could shake sky down for some more cash.

I like the idea of Monday night rugby. Monday is a rotten day and could do with a bit for rugby to improve it. Perhaps they could show more RL during the football off season and go back to 2 matches when the footy is back on.

It seems a waste that we have 4/5 weekends in the summer when we do not have any games on Sky due to the cup. Getting Sky secondary rights to the cup would be a good move.

as would getting the BBC to spend some money on their highlights show!

Sunday evening, BBC, Nationwide at 8pm the SL Show should be on...highlights of all 7 games from the weekend......not tucked away on BBC Yorkshire on a sunday afternoon slot and at 3am Everywhere else with highlights of only 3 games sometimes.



Like the idea of Monday Night Football, but the clubs in the NRL don't......they get hammered at the gate. Can't see many St Helens fans making the trip to Headingly on a Monday evening with a view to getting home well after midnight....and how many fans from anywhere (including London) would bother with the Stoop on a Monday?

Yes please , I'd love it , just love it to see SL on a midweek format

A bit of thought put into the fixture list and you could have the Derbies as MNF when the football's not on in the summer.

Hate Monday night Footy myself, well that is until I'm watching the mighty eels play at the time, still sucks waiting all weekend though.

It has its cons and disadvantages though, high TV ratings but some crowds are house. If sky could pick n choose what big games to show, it could be a real winner. Some of the highest RL ratings in Aus for the last few years on PTV have been Monday night games.

Sky would have to be wise though, some games like Parra v Manly, Canterbury, Tigers or saints would be a sellout on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, but a Monday night game might only get 12k in for those games, so the same thing would apply to the UK games.

You hardly ever see a team like Nth QLD and the Warriors (never) host a Monday night game, but it wouldn't be hard to work around.

The Roosters are a bit like London Bronquins, no crowds blah blah blah, yet I remember in the mid 90's, the Roosters got a crowd on a Monday night not much under 40k out of the blue, so it could have a good effect on certain teams.