Maybe our game last week was a 'sounding board' to see if showing sunday Championship games were worth while?

IF espn want to cover rl then anything is possible.

Could be right.

So not as good as I thought then.

The point it griff,SL has had 16 years to get to that figure,How many years has the championship had, Is this the third?.

The point is, what's in it for Sky ?

I would say it would be a long term investment for sky because the championships have a wider spread than sl,and at the moment you could possibly say there are another 60 thousand people tuning in to sky who might be doing something else on a thursday evening.

Lots more meaningful fixtures. That's what.

Lots less glorified friendlies requiring Eddie and Stevo hyperbole to bolster it.

I don't see either of those points as representing commercial justification for forking out a fat wedge.

Your view is coloured by the fact that you like Rugby League.

Meaningful fixtures generally result in bigger crowds and better atmosphere.

That results in a better spectacle.

Whether the better spectacle results in bigger TV audiences I could only guess but it couldn't do them any harm. Perhaps someone has viewing figures for televised SL relegation battles to support or knock down this assertion?

Bigger gates at the clubs clearly brings in extra money independent of TV cash.

It's the utter lack of meaning to fixtures that has seen a drastic reduction in second division crowds over recent years.

Let's keep RL up't norf with a weekend in France thrown in.................. =#FF0000use of emoticons in this way are not allowed on this site, abide by it's rules or stay away.

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