Seems [url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/rugby_league/4075625/Super-League-could-be-played-on-Monday-nights.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeedSky plan to trial[/url this during the football off season beginning on 21st May with apparently Salford v Bradford. Presumably this would be instead of Saturday games.

An absolute pain in the backside from a spectating point of view but as a viewer, better to move away from Saturday games when Sky are going to be all over Test Cricket and now Formula 1? Viewing figures tell you how much difference being on Sky Sports 1 makes and this perhaps the best way of maintaining that.

Thoughts?

I agree with you on the TV viewing point. I look forward to MNF and would love MNRL during the off season.

However the thought of rocking on down to a ground to watch RL live on a Monday night would just be weird. I hate Friday games when it's dark with a passion and Monday would be even worse as you would have been at work all day and wouldn't have the appealing prospect of a lie in coming.

No thanks! Work commitments would rule out my attendance at Monday night games.

the last thing that concerns Sky is what the fans think - it's bums on seats in the living room that counts..

MNLF = Viewing figures

end of.

It's a trial, if it works they keep it, if it doesn't, get rid.

Great from an armchair fan perspective but if I was a fan of a SL club I would be concerned about its potential impact on attendances. But as a TV viewer I say go for it and screw the clubs !

During the football off season i don't see why we don't all play Saturday 3pm. The non televised games anyway.

Because in the modern world tons of people work on Saturdays for one. I don't see anything broken about Sunday afternoons so why try and fix it.

dont they do this in aus and have for some time

Wouldn't a compromise be to show the game on Monday night but as a delayed broadcast from some time over the weekend?

that would give us at salford only a 4 day turnaround before we play at the magic wekend on the sat after brilliant

I quite like the idea of Mon night games.

Doesn't seem to affect football though.

I don't mind the idea. It's got it's pros and cons as any day would (and in typical RL fashion the fans have concentrated on the cons).

Pros - Sky will focus on us more in summer as opposed to being stuck in the middle of several other sports broadcasts. Potentially more viewers and this more money in the future.

Cons - Attendances may take a hit. With work that day, it suffers the same issues as Fridays. But with work the day after as well, it has more issues.

If they were to do this, I think it would be in the game's best interests to have the games local, ie Salford/Widnes/Saints/Wire/Wigan or Leeds/Bradford/Hudds/Wakey/Cas. Plenty of combos there to keep you through summer.

Have to say it would be awful for me. Already difficult to attend evening KOs after work. Mondays would be impossible.

If they start messing around then i really would have to consider the value of getting a season ticket

These are not extra games, they'd replace saturday games. and as a viewer, I'd want to see matches live. its not like the early 90s when avoiding the score till sky showed a match delayed at 7pm on a sunday was easy.

Think its a great idea personally if it gets marketed right it could be seen as a big thing like MNF is in Football and NFL.

Hopefully there could be highlights of the weekends games with some analysis after the broadcasted game has finished.

No as ratings would be lower. For Sky its all about having as much LIVE sport as possible during evenings. This was the main reason why Co-op RL was played on a Thursday.

As we are in the pocket of the TV boys, I guess the games will be when Sky want them.
Interesting backing up on Friday evening, if you've played on Monday. Ouch !

You reckon?

What will Sky do differently to promote the game that they don't already do for Fridays and Saturdays?

It's not like they've overrun with other live sport to show on a Friday, but it doesn't lead to wall-to-wall previews and coverage of that night's live game.

Sky shifting a game to Monday is a step backwards in terms of their RL coverage IMO - it puts it on a par with other midweek fillers like greyhound racing and speedway.

Brilliant, the semi pro clubs have to put up with it for no monetary compensation, so lets see how happy the big boys like it

Can't agree. To me it shows that SKY see SL as one of it's crown jewels and wants to expand it. Ifi t's good enough for football. SKY aobviously think a lot of RL to truy this move.

But i don't think it will work, even football attendances suffer on Monday nights. RL couldn't cope and we would see scores of empty seats.

Yes, but Huddersfield wouldn't be on EVERY Monday

But thats why you get your SKY million



Welcome to our world

Yes but you have less travelling distance than any of the other clubs.



Get on with it and embrace the publicity.