On Premier Sports? Sorry but I'm not forking out another £10 per month on top of my already extortionate Sky package. Would be great if Sky or better still the BBC picked it up though.

Premier Sports put it on Free-To-Air.

But, it was only available if you have a Sky box. Gits!

Interetsing stuff there, Mr Blue

Lucky you that you knew when it was on to watch it. The lack of advertising (in a way undertstandable) and deefening silence on these forums (less your initial posting back in Jan) didn't help matters. Shame, I would definately have watched.

If you join Premier Sports' facebook group they're very good at keeping you up to date with latest matches and what is on FTA

Done!

interesting reading josh's reasons for joining the league club at oxford. i am an ex st.mary's player, and it is good to see him quoted as a high light beating simmies. its also good to see oxford getting back towards national standings. his experience with the league club at uni is refreshing, and hopefully it is being reflected across the elete universities across the country.
i went to the game last night, and oxford were a very good league team. they would have beaten most cambridge sides of old. it is a worry though that cambridge put in such a lack luster performance, as the occassion is a good one, and a competitive game would have improved a good night.
rugby league in the univerities needs to be nurtured, and promoted as this will be another way of improving the profile of the game.
figures on wiki intimate that 85k households tune into the game on sky, and i think this is a very encouraging figure, which can hopefully be built on year on year.

RLFANS have a discout promo code for Premier Sports here too --------------------------------->

If you fancy 150 NRL games this year... Just saying.

We have this thread around this time every year...

Two factors to add to this. One is the size of Oxford & Cambridge. They both have around 20k students each. As well as being older/richer/more academic, they're also a lot bigger than most other universities. The other is that both tend to produce a much stronger attachment in their graduates than other universities. I wouldn't cross the road to watch my old uni play against Leeds Met - but my father-in-law would support Oxford against Cambridge in anything, 50+ years after he graduated.

Both of those things mean that even if the game might appeal only to Oxbridge graduates, it could still get decent ratings and be an easy sell for Sky advertising buyers.

I was at Oxford myself but didn't get into RL until shortly after I left. Sadly, RL gets a bit overlooked there because Union tries to dominate (helps that the Varsity union game has a bit of a social draw- God knows why) and you can't get a full Blue for RL.

I do hope that OURLFC kick on from this and keep on increasing their profile.