The County boundaries never changed - some administrative areas were combined with Cheshire eg policing - but Warrington is still in Lancashire

How is it in Lancashire when it doesn't even border Lancashire?
I was born in the late 70's so it was never even Lancashire anyway for me.

Move with the times and stop living in the past, we are no longer Britannia, I don't watch Catalans play in Gaul.

And Wales was incorporated into England in 1542. Try telling the Welsh that.

Quote ="Wire Yed"How is it in Lancashire when it doesn't even border Lancashire? I was born in the late 70's so it was never even Lancashire anyway for me. Move with the times and stop living in the past, we are no longer Britannia, I don't watch Catalans play in Gaul.'" Rather annoying being branded from somewhere you are not isn't it? Happens to us St Helens folk all the time and being branded 'Scousers' all too often. Not that I have anything against people from Liverpool. I've had some good mates from there and they don't call us lot from St Helens 'fellow Scousers' they brand us 'Woolybacks'. www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... wooly+back

Quote ="Wire Yed"How is it in Lancashire when it doesn't even border Lancashire? I was born in the late 70's so it was never even Lancashire anyway for me. Move with the times and stop living in the past, we are no longer Britannia, I don't watch Catalans play in Gaul.'" Rather annoying being branded from somewhere you are not isn't it? Happens to us St Helens folk all the time and being branded 'Scousers' all too often. Not that I have anything against people from Liverpool. I've had some good mates from there and they don't call us lot from St Helens 'fellow Scousers' they brand us 'Woolybacks'. www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... wooly+back

Well SKY can choose the games at the back end of the season without much notice so I don't see why the games can't be chosen after round 3 or 4..

I'm not sure on the facts about the number of times teams need to be shown etc, but if there is such a thing then surely the said teams could be chosen later in the season.

Easter is some of our best coverage. The most exciting teams at the time need to be shown!

If I was to choose the games based on this season so far.
The Wire game would be a definate along with the Salford, Catalans.
Then probably the Saints, Wigan. Unless SKY risked seeing the Giants potentially lose to predicted season strugglers Wakefield.

Because people and fans would be kicking off about changing fixtures at the last minute. as they do already.

Why can't they show every game like the NRL that premier do for less money ? (that's why I am getting rid of Sky).

I said the same, even if they show them on delay they could fit them in the schedule somewhere looking around the vasts amount of tripe and filler they put in over the 5 channels. they have the full rights so no reason why not, all you can assume is RL is just a filler for SKY. you can guarantee if they had full premier league rights they would show all games.

Or like i have said before if more then one game been played have the one they keep showing the trys from and let the customer decide which to watch and show the try from the other match half time or full

When they increase the amount of kabaddi and fishing, and reduce the amount of rugby league, you know they don't give a about us. They've cut us right down to a bare minimum so unfortunately they aren't going to do us a favour and give us more coverage anymore. They've put all their eggs in the F1 basket and every other sport, even the Premier League, is an afterthought. Who would think Sky would ever lose the Champions League? But they prioritised F1 over that so RL is going to be down the pecking order in importance of what to put efforts into next.

yep F1 and golf, they have all the majors now.

PL football is still there biggest earner by a country mile

Given that the bbc don't have to cough up the ridiculous sums for F1, halved the cost of 6 nations(currently bbc pay £25M/year for 8 matches) have only very limited sports it would be an ideal time to pitch RL to be ahown on free to air but the RFL managed to undersell us in a shady deal yet agsin.
with a yearly total of £40M for approx 100 games including SL, championship and CC games from 2017 until 2021 we're stuck with SKY and their dreadful coverage.

Regardless of whether we have a good deal with Sky or not, the BBC is never going to offer more than Sky. They cut F1 because they have to save money, they aren't then going to pick up a regional sport for over £40 million.

What sport does the BBC really show now apart from stuff that has to be shown on terrestrial TV ie the World Cup or the Olympics

On the showing of both teams so far yes they should, too pore teams full stop.

Yes, yes they should.

Hull are cripplingly boring to watch even to a Hull fan. I can't imagine how dull a neutral finds us.

How we have gone from scoring for fun early in the season to this so quickly is hard to believe.

the Radford effect?

of course, he is a genius

Seriously, great final 15 but 55 mediocre mins. Rovers put the cue on the rack after the penalty put them 4 scores up. Credit to hull for chancing there arm and it payed off.

Nice jinx

If there's one thing a Hull Derby offers it's bizarre finishes! Unlikely comebacks, dodgy video ref decisions, try saving tackles on the hooter, we've had it all over the years!

Aye.

The last twenty minutes was how we played against Salford and catalan, we start playing like that again we will see entertaining rugby again

And you call Hull derbies boring.