Just seen that Salford now playing us on Saturday 22 at 3pm. I feel sorry for any Salford fans who've bought advance rail tickets!

is it on Sky TV ?

Sky is showing Wire-Saints according to the website, so not sure why we have moved

your game should be on IMO.

Welcome to our world! Whilst I have some sympathy with Salford fans who have bought tickets which cannot be altered. We have just got used to being let down over the years.

Do not bother complaining to the RFL Salford fans, they do not give a toss about you.

So this match for which the change has been blamed on our club, is I am told due to Sky wishing to show the Salford V Toulouse on Thursday, so they need to move our game back to give the teams the required time.

It now appears the RFL have apologized for blaming London Broncos for the change and admit it was down to them.

Be warned, the Halifax game may also be changed I am told.

Total rfl couldn't care less attitude and they wonder why the game does not grow. Family are season ticket holders and can't go cos we arranged other things. RFL do everything on expenses and stuff the fans they are secondary to rfl wishes. Wonder if they are going to refund family s with tickets for this. What's that I see oh itsflying pigs

How many times has this happened to our fans. Many many many times!
The worst of all was the Catalan trip when the game was changed from Saturday to Sunday at short notice. Numerous of our supporters were flying home just as the game kicked off. No sympathy from the RFL at the time.
Last year when we played Widnes. I had bought train tickets for the scheduled Sunday game only for it to be televised and moved to Saturday. I ended up giving my train tickets to my postman who comes from that area and buying new ones for the Saturday. Over two hundred pounds wasted. Not a thought for us fans.

We were affected by most of those the Cats alone cost the family almost £ 2k for a game we didn't see

Well I can’t now make that game.

And to rub salt in the wound the Fax game is now @ 19:05 on the Saturday 29 Sept. That one is live on Sky.

Not sure why this game date change is such a surprise! Told you 1 Sep that it was likely to change in another thread!

The surprise is that they've done it with 5 days notice!

So that's me out as well

It’s the nature of the 8s! Sky don’t know what games they want to televise, it is a pain but we know it’s likely.
And I did give the hint it was going to happen 2 weeks ago

I can't imagine too many away fans organised their travel on the basis of that.

Looks like they doing double header with Skolars

.. Does this mean we get to see Skolars game for free if we have Broncos Season Ticket?

That makes it OK then does it?



The powers that be really need to be prepared to stand toe to toe with SKY come the next negotiations. It's highly unlikely there'll be more money, but we need to be having discussions around what we get and what we expect from our broadcast partners.....collectively I'd be pushing for 1 FTA game a week and 1 Championship match per week and each club retaining the streaming rights for their non tv games if they decide they want to offer that service.

Still at a loss to see why this is such a shock, broncos are in the mix for a place in the decider, of course they are going to look at putting it on tv. Had Toulouse won at Toronto last week, reckon they would have gone with them, as it is it’s us!

It's not a "shock"......it is a complete disgrace though as is your shrug of the shoulder reaction as opposed to your "'til the death" defense of all referees.

I kicked up such a fuss about the Catalan fiasco that I received an invite to the Parliamentary RL group as well as 3 personal invites from SL chairmen, all of whom I wrote to at the time. I felt it was unacceptable for SKY to move a fixture in France at a cost of Thousands of pounds to our small but loyal supporter base and as such felt that it should never happen again...to my knowledge, it hasn't. I also reiterated that such a fixture switch would never happen to a big club....it still hasn't.
London Broncos RL were blamed for this switch by the RFL, a claim that was quickly withdrawn.....I imagine such a mistake, if about a bigger club would come with a groveling apology.....

I don't "blame" SKY by the way.......I blame the RFL ad the new SL CEO, who both should be making it quite clear that RL is on the market and for sale in a couple of years and we are looking for a diverse broadcast partner or stable of partners who offer not just money, but also exposure.....SKY have served their purpose and thanks for the ride, but we really need to be more than a cheap "filler" for a broadcast partner who is losing market share across the board.....SKY reported a 12% drop in Sports viewers over the last 2 years. They either need to treat us as a valued product or lose us.....and before anyone says "nobody else wants us".....I'd counter that 350,000-500,000 viewers a week on a paid platform for 30 weeks a year will be of interest to someone but we need to learn how to sell it.

Well done you dog!

I'm surprised Sky have not lost more viewers. It is yesterday's technology and very expensive (though they are offering huge discounts to hold onto subscribers). They have lost a lot of sports in what has become a much more fragmented market.

I am quite proud of the fact that I got assurances from SKY and the RFL that it wouldn't happen again, so yeah, well done me.






You can now watch Union on, BBC, SKY, C4, ITV, C5, BT and Premier TV, with the BOLDED Channels the key to the future of sports broadcasting........get your audience on FTA, then charge them a premium for streaming event games and eventually the whole thing.

As a sport we don't have a big enough or regular enough FTA audience to think about a paid streaming service, but we need to start getting more games out there in the public domain, or we risk watching our spectator numbers shrink as our audience ages.......it's something we should have looked at a decade ago, but as usual, the RFL and SL chairmen all had their noses in the trough.
The best way forward (if there's no interest from SKY to add any more money) is that we buy an Outside Broadcast system and literally GIVE A GAME A WEEK AWAY as proof of concept........Live sport for Free will appeal to the FTA channels....you can be damn sure that C5 pay a peppercorn amount for their Union....but the Union knows what they are doing........it's the long game.

Just actually noticed it’s not been moved to put it on tv has it? It’s been moved because of the thu night game next week, only clicked when there was no reserve TJ.
Thought was at least going to get to see the game on record, ah well.

with observational skills like that you should be a referee....

Not another referee thread? Sigh