Following your lead, I've sent my own email to sky. I hope others will join me, as the only way sky will know that there's a problem with their broadcast is for the people watching to tell them


[iDear Sir

Yesterday evening, I sat down to watch Boot's n All's season preview show. At least, that's how the show was advertised.

There are 14 teams in Super League, yet 4 of those teams received virtually no coverage as they were squeezed into the final 15 minutes of the show. Hardly an even handed and unbiased preview of the season to come is it?

I cannot honestly believe that the people who made this show didn't know their running time and allocate a fair amount of time to each team. Instead of giving each team in Super League a review on their players in and out etc, we have 10 minutes of a team of rugby players mucking out some stables.

It is clear that the 3 main presenters of Rugby League on Sky have their favourite players and teams and that is shown in the amount of exposure they give to those players and teams. But I do not think this comes across as professional, in fact compared to the Rugby Union review show, Boots N All comes across as amateur hour both in terms of the analysis of the game and the additional reports and features shown.

I really think that the presentation of Rugby League on Sky needs an overhaul or at the very least less bias from the commentators.[/i

As usual, the Aussies do it much better. They have better informed presenters who are genuinely funny as well, have big name stars on every week being interviwed, and an audience of passionate RL fans. I'm talking about the Footy Show, which we did receive in the Uk on SETANTA before it went bust. I'd rather SKY binned Boots'n'all & bought the Uk rights to the Footy Show. I certainly won't be watching Boot'n'all this season - its a waste of time.