Steady Juke. Hot beds of football Dumbarton and Arbroath. With Jeff not there next season somebody's got to keep us informed

As a Studious follower of Scotish "Ahem" Football there was no malice intended - Could easily have said Lincoln & Torquay!!!

My current 2 favourite teams to back on my Weekend Accas are Cove Rangers & Kelty Hearts - Both of whom I didn't know existed until 2 years ago!!!

Do you run a branch of her fan club as well as that of IL?

No, running the IL one keeps me busy enough

But, um all for successful/professional people being associated with our game.
Plus it would bring other benefits

On the face of it this could be a great move. It all depends on Channel 4s attitude towards it. If it's along the lines of their Cricket/NFL coverage it will go a long way to growing our game.

If I have a concern it's that (I'm assuming) they have got it on the cheap so to speak and that could go one of two ways. Either that will leave more budget for the production or they could regard it as "cheap filler".

With only a 10 game season for them, will that be enough to throw everything at it? I hope so...

Not sure about Adam Hills to be honest. It a good programme he presents no doubt but I can’t see him doing the transition to live sports. I wouldn’t mind Will Perry/Jon Wilkin/Mark Flanagan in all honesty I think that would be a good presenting team.

This can only be a good thing for the sport. It’s obvious C4 are testing the waters with 10 games a season and until that’s increased you’ll be lucky to get a ‘Matty Johns/Footy Show’ type programme. That however would be presented by Adam Hills without a doubt. I sincerely hope this takes off.

You are opposed to this, Jukes? Really?

For me, RL on free-to-air TV is what the sport has always desperately needed. If you want people who don't live in Lancashire and Yorkshire to watch the game (and sometimes I wonder about that). Twenty years too late (and well into the 'streaming era', which doesn't help), but better late than never.

As for the presenters, etc, well, the awful Sky are such a low bar, it shouldn't be hard to better them. I'm really looking forward to it.

There were a few other responses highlighting how the BBC coverage wasn't all it's remembered to be and paid nothing etc.
Although Sky have stagnated over the last 5/6 years or so - We still have to remember that without them we would be Part time etc. like back in the day and even further behind - However the RFL have to take a major slice of that issue by allowing SKY to stagnate and not providing a more vibrant/commercial game etc. and keep them on their toes

Fairy nuff. Then we are in agreement. Plenty of people appear to believe that "SL used to better", but whether they are right or not, we are where we are, and I agree that harking back to a maybe mythical past is not helpful.

I agree. Whilst in my opinion the product is not as good as it was early to mid 00's we are where we are. It's now time for the sport to improve year on year (on and off the field) in turn attracting worthy sponsorship deals and bringing new income into the game. Seeing Catalans spending big this season genuinely excites me and if we don't win anything I hope they achieve some success cause its about time the tail stopped wagging the dog.

Agreed. I'd love the governing body to have some balls and significantly raise the cap so we can maybe attract richer investors and retain/attract better players. Even if it hurt our ability to win trophies I'd still like to see that happen.

Crowds have declined and the quality isn’t as good.

It’s clear to me Super League isn’t as good as it used to be?

I hope that Channel 4's coverage will help to attract new follower/fans/supporters from outside the m62 corridor. If they like the product of SL, then some financial benefit could be gained by clubs, with the take up of live streaming, or going to a live games. I'm looking forward to see how C4 cover and present SL in 2022.

Just seen an advert on E4 for the upcoming season, I hope these adverts can be shown a bit more at prime time viewing

One was one at 5pm last night channel 4

Thats a much better time (I think) have to admit that I don't watch much C4 anymore so not sure what prime time shows there are on there these days

And again 4-30 this afternoon

There have been plenty adverts for Superleague on their digital of shoot channels as well

Regards EW

Has their presenting/commentating line up been confirmed?

Have C4 confirmed when they will air their first live game?

Host is Adam Hills, with Leon Pryce and Kev Sinfield alongside him and the first game is Leeds vs Wire a week today. I think it kicks off at 12.30pm.

Rumours Clive Tyldesley and Helen Skelton are involved. Launch event planned for Monday.

Thanks.

Their CEO has said that because they don't have a lot of money to spend, that when they do they get behind it 100% as it's still a lot of money to them. The production has was put out to tender to gather ideas on how it's presented to get new fans but keep existing ones entertained too.

10 games is ok the gap between them us the worry they're front loaded then with a play off game. However their intention is a more long term this 2 year deal will be to test the water and see how it is received. I'm excited to see what they come up with their sports coverage is normally good.

Has there been any advertising for the game yet?

Just wondering how they’re planning on getting existing rugby fans to know about the coverage and tune in, as well as attracting new fans.

The 1230 slot on Saturday is football and covered by BT Sport. Unsure whose bright idea it was to compete with that?

They’d have been better doing a 1430 Saturday fixture or 1230 on a Sunday so no competition with premier league games