Next year all games are now starting at 7.45 from next year because of the constant stopping of the clock during games anvideo ref decisions taking all night! This year 2 games have only finished at 10.05pm! becasue of injuries, time outs for scrums and video ref decisions. even if games start at 7.45 they will only finish at 9.45

Some people have trains.buses to catch and have work to go to

Makes sense.

i wonder how many will be upset just because its less time at the bar for a pint or two?

Judging by the 2 pint crew who roll up 10-15mins into the game in the Carnegie stand at Leeds they wont care.

Is this confirmed or sommat you just want to be put into place?

was in the papers today

Good decision.

Just read up on it. God knows how I missed it.

Fantastic idea. Been mentioning this for a while now, and it's only beingnin the last few seasons I've noticed it. It just seems every game edges towards 10pm more and more. 15 mins doesn't sound like a lot but it'll help those to get away and home on last trains and buses. So realistically a game with no video ref and few stoppages could be over by 9:20pm?

Watching a lot of NRL the last couple of years have NEVER seen a non-overtime game even close to two hours. They do take a bit less time with the video ref but the main thing is half-times are a strict 10 minutes. With super league it's been creeping up and up and 20 minutes are standard... all for the benefit of Sky to flog a few adverts, and another small way they're badly serving the game.

About time, mite just make it to M62 before the slip road gets closed ....And no I don't leave till the hooter sounds.

Excellent news. Will make getting home from away matches much easier.

Yeah a combination of things are the cause. The HT's do seem to drag on a bit, more caution over injuries and making sure the player is ok or taken off for a head assessment (which is a good thing) and finally the VR. Fair enough when they get a genuinely tricky one or one that doesn't offer great angles or views....but they seem to take several looks at even obvious ones. The on field decision rule doesn't help as you can tell sometimes the VR wants to overrule or agree with what the ref sent it up as but just can't get conclusive proof.

I can't speak to the length of the Sky TV half-time interval (usually only 6 to 7 mins when edited) but each half almost routinely now runs to a full 50 minutes in order to get 40 mins playing time in these days and it's been this way for a long while.

I agree with Printer that it's partly due to more care with head injuries which is a good thing overall - players appear mostly genuine injured and get up if not - but I still think the video ref is the biggest factor in late finishes and for me spoils the flow and length of the game.

When its half time usaully its between 10 and 12 minutes break but on a sky game its usually 16-18 minutes! i know this because i have been stopwatching games