That will now hit Whitehaven in the pocket

Why in Gods name are the Championship owners putting up with playing midweek for no financial compensation , their stupidity knows no boundarys

Closer to 6.30 by the time you've parked up and entered the ground , so time for a beer and a bite to eat before the game

Unless of course your coaches have ' Warp drive ' ?

Midweek matches for no compensation stinks , plain bloody stupid , 2 weeks ago Leigh took close to 500 for the match at Fev on a sunday , yes less than that would have gone to Haven , but still a financial ' hole ' for Haven

And to cap it all premier sports pay nothing for the tv rights to screen games. All the clubs in the Championship received 20k each last year and that was it. Ok for the teams who are never on but successful teams are getting hammered on attendances .
Does anybody know if the teams voted this in or just another one of those great ideas negotiated by the rugby league which isnt worth the paper its wrote on.

On the flip side, it is free exposure for RL

And ?

I can manage to sit at my desk at work for two and a half hours without starving to death or pi$$ing my pants! It's not the far side of the moon.

If you were contemplating a trip to Haven , you'd need a drink as well



Then again I'm sure you will be travelling up to see your ' reserve grade ' play

That would be the logical choice.

Indeed it would but sense did n`t seem to prevail.

We might as well let ITV 2,3 or 4 have it for free at least thats on free view where RL could have had a massive amount of exposure.

We might as well let ITV 2,3 or 4 have it for free at least thats on free view where RL could have had a massive amount of exposure.

They would have to want it first and sadly, crappy old replays are worth more to them than some small time clubs no one has ever heard of playing some northern game not many people are interested in watching around the country.

Sad but true im affraid. Pass the popcorn, short circuit is on, again....

In fairness, sitting at your desk is not the same as driving a car/bus and doesn't carry any of the attendant risks if you nod off or get distracted. Advice for driving long distances is to stop for 20 mins at least once every 2 hours.

The proper fans will be there tonight.

I think it's amusing how we only see these sort of threads when clubs have to travel up to Cumbria. What about when the Cumbrian clubs have to travel in to the M62 corridor? Last season Workington played at Doncaster on a Thursday, evening on Premier Sports and I think Whitehaven played at Sheffield (?) and nobody seemed bothered.

Slightly OT but if people are complaining of a 2.5/3 hour journey on a Thursday night then feel sorry for the Liverpool fans who are away in St Petersburg tonight

And no I am not a liverpool fan. I think in RL fans have it very easy to go and watch every game if they so desire compared to just about any other sport.

We had 3 away games on tv this year .Town away no problem,swinton away on a Thursday night again no problem and eagles away Thursday.We requested the eagles game to be change as its over 4 hr's from whitehaven

On a channel that as very very very few viewers

Premier Sports got any deals for this coming NRL season?

God knows what time Catalan fans will have to leave the office tomorrow!

You have been moaning for weeks about getting to Hull at the weekend!

Nothing to do with date / time / SKY or anything though just personal fuss / finances



Shitty fixture for Leigh fans but if happens and rather now than a last min change at the end if the season. How much notice given etc?

Chicked and the egg, people will only watch a good product - you can't blame Premier that no one wants to watch your games.

Exactly. I've travelled to Bournemouth and Gillingham on Tuesday nights with the Gillingham match being called off just as we came off the motorway. We went round the roundabout and got back on. 2 days holiday wasted.

If a good product is all it takes why bother marketing anything?



no one blamed premier sport for lack of viewers, he simply stated it has very few viewers.....and its hardly exposure when its an obscure channel that most people haven't heard of, you're hardly gonna grab the casual viewers. For the few hundred that's knocked off the gate of every TV game without recompense every club could go out and buy a digital camcorder and put the game on youtube. all this deal means is that the casual fan will sit in the pub and watch the game rather than go to the ground and put money into the clubs...i'm getting sick to death of this 'get what you're given and like it' mentality from certain SL fans



exposure? we'd get more of it putting on a 2am re-run on 'red hot MILFS'