No Harry this week. Amazingly, they didn't waste any time with the mind numbing sofa chat.

That's just what they want you to think..

If anyone saw the early morning repeat of show 1 it had some additional content. A SL preview from the launch party was welcome and the other content was padded out slightly.

I can't recall any differences between the two timed offerings normally so that was a bit of a surprise.

Show 2 is going out on the Sunday night so I wonder if they will include pictures from all the round 1 games?

If so then that would be a preferable time slot for the show so I expect it will revert to Sunday lunchtime the following week.

The Sunday afternoon show was only 30 minutes instead of 45 minutes because of the tennis. Bizarrely, it was because the tennis finished 15 minutes early and the BBC decided to fill the spare 15 minutes with a 30 minute programme so 15 minutes of the SLS's slot was lost.

Logic and BBC schedulers obviously don't go hand in hand.

Next weeks is on about half 10 at night then 4 in morning

Coming home from a night on the lash only to see 'arry and his technicolour dream jumper.......


Bad times.

Is it on this afternoon?

2225 on BBC1.

10.25 tonight

Makes more sense being on at that time with the 3 games today

It would make more sense for it to be on at that time every Sunday so what's the betting it won't be.

True but if anything overruns before it wont be on seeing as the SuperBowl is on after, they wont be delaying that for a few crappy highlights I can tell you

What a surprise.... only had highlights from the Wakefield V Les Catalans game from Sunday and nothing bar the result from the other two fixtures and next week it's shunted back to mid afternoon. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

On the other hand Sky's expanded Boots 'N All The Tries made a pleasing debut on the main Sky Channel rather than being tucked away on the anytime button later in the week.

Bill Arthur always does a good job and Terry 'Carnegie' O'Connor is OK most of the time despite his Jedward anecdote.

On the topic of Boots 'n' All, you can download it as a podcast either to watch on your computer or on your ipod

Interesting question posed but unanswered on Boots 'N All last night, Ian Proctor can't have been in the building.

When was the last time the previous year's Grand Finalists both lost their round 1 fixtures?

The simple answer is that it's never happened before in the SL Era.

Out of the eleven seasons (1999-2009) where it could have potentially occurred previously, on four of those the previous year's Finalists met in Round 1. In the other seven both won on three, three were split and one was a loss and a draw.

So 2007 was close, with St Helens losing at home to Harlequins and Hull drawing at home to Les Catalans. (Like Leeds in 2010 St Helens already had a win on the board, before losing in round 1, with a fixture brought forward to accommodate the WCC.)