Just buy Premier Sports instead. Loads cheaper and you get to see every single match of the NRL season. That's enough rugby league to satiate the appetite of any RL fan, and no Eddie & Stevo to boot!

Quote: Nothus "and no Eddie & Stevo to boot!'" On the subject of commentary, I found this gem the other day on YouTube, which is entitled "Best Sports Commentary". It's from a Cas v Wigan match in the 90s: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3K312eIyrg

Quote: Nothus "and no Eddie & Stevo to boot!'" On the subject of commentary, I found this gem the other day on YouTube, which is entitled "Best Sports Commentary". It's from a Cas v Wigan match in the 90s: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3K312eIyrg

If I'm honest Nothus, I was put off Premier when I was told that the bloke who does our pre-match worked for them. I don't think I could put up with that sort of pub karaoke type performance - well, ...not if I had to pay for it.

TBF he's not on any of the NRL coverage which is just the feed from Channel 9 in Australia. I've loved having the NRL this season.

I'll be avoiding all the souper douper league coverage next year, I'm not interested unless we get some "middle eight" action.

Can't say I'm too fussed about most of the Aussie stuff, to be honest, though I used to enjoy the Origin games when they were on Sky.

I nver was before but I've been converted this year. That wasn't difficult given the performances put in by the Bulls!

Thought The Championship was going to Sky next year, that's the reason why Premier.didn't take up the option to show it this year and put the money into more coverage of the NRL.

Sky do have the rights to the Champ games, problem is they aren't showing any of them!
Only the summer bash games at Blackpool and 1 game per week when the leagues split. That's all we're getting.

Well that will be a certain win for you..we have a tradition to keep up!

The things you guys have won 'over the years' next season will be really weird for you, but at least you can WIN promotion back to Super League, something that wasn't possible for National League/Championship teams from 2008. Speaking to a Leigh Director earlier this week, from whatever influence a club have can have in the fixtures, they desperately want our first home game to be v Bradford Bulls at the LSV. Hope it's not @ Odsal for our 1st game, had to many depressing visits there !!! (Yes, I am that old !!!)

If it is, it would not surprise me if it will be a new attendance record for the Championship.

I cant wait. It will be a really exciting season, and one for sure you Bulls fans will enjoy.

I remember once playing Leigh at home. We were six points up with three mins to play [five points for try and goal, back then] and [istill [/icontrived to lose.

Try to Leigh, goaled by John Woods and our kick off then went out on the full, giving Woodsy a another chance to score a penalty which he took with glee. Woods, of course, was one of the relatively few players we have in common.

It's difficult to be fair.

Most don't want to be obnoxious about it [yeah, I know, there are exceptions..]but, at the end of the day, we are [apparently] going of be one of just three full time teams. It's not of our choosing, the RFL thought it was a good idea and there's nothing we can do about it, other than crack on and make the best of it, but obviously we have a fair old advantage against the semi-pro sides and it's daft to pretend otherwise.