Absolute disaster for me. I work 16 hours Monday and Tuesday. This will mean I miss out on even more rugby. I'm sick of paying for everyone elses sport with sky. If its extra to a Saturday game I don't mind but as a replacement no thank you.

Took a while to take off in Aus, but it's a massive game for Pay TV and 8 out of 10 times ends up being the game of the round.

Yeah the crowds suffer but sometimes the crowds surprise you too, I remember the roosters getting stuff all people to the games in the late 90's (as usual) and their monday night game had over 35,000 turn up against the out of town Broncos.

The TV ratings out here speak for themselves, for a while there, every Monday night footy match was a pay TV record, now I'm not saying RL can do that in England obviously with Soccer being king, but instead of 250,000 watching on a Friday or Saturday, you could be heading towards the 350 400 mark on a Monday.

If it takes off for sky, who's to say they won't give you 3 games a week on TV instead of 2?

Who's to say they won't pay millions more in the next TV deal to keep it, and if it is a raging success, who's to say a FTA station won't look at it like what's happening out here?

One other thing, Monday night footy out here looks where the teams are located, that's why we have never had a Warriors home game and Brisbane, NTH QLD very rarely get them.

Sky want maximum exposer and bang for their buck, they aren't going to do something like this with the thought of damaging the game on in the back of their mind.

Give it a chance, Mondays will never be the same again.

Fine by me, interested to see how it pans out.

Friday nights under lights used to feel a bit special when it was a once in a blue moon affair. It didn't matter that it was on TV because I'd go anyway just to watch RL under lights, which I've always loved and used to feel like more of an event than yer average Sunday afternoon game. Sorting out transport and getting out of work early to make the trip was worth it. I've long since stopped attending Friday night away games now that it's become almost a standard. I doubt I'm going to make the effort on Monday nights either.

There's a large TV sports audience on Monday nights though and I'm curious to see the effect on viewing figures.

It needs to be the game of the round ie Wigan v Saints, Hull v Hull KR, Leeds v Bradford, Cas v Wakey/Leeds, Wire v Wigan/Saints/Widnes/Leeds, Salford v London etc

If we pick the pants fixture all the new watchers will see us as a joke sport with no crowds in carp stadiums, get the big games on show and watch the sport take off.

Sounds fishy to me

its a great idea, more rl on tv is always something to be happy about

has to be worth a try ?

Now if Cas got a Monday fixture i would struggle to get there but it sounds ok to me,

RL on TV Mon/Wed/Fri leaving a pretty much full weekend to spend with the family/play sport/watch the team of your choice.

Cant see why it isnt worth a try in the wendyball off season.

Usually can Sky Sports after the NFL- not paying those prices for v+ed RL - im generally doing other things on a Friday and Saturday than staying in watching telly.

This might change that

I think that's the main appeal of it. I reckon I watched more midweek championship games than Saturday evening games that didn't include Wigan last season.

I don't remember all this moaning when the Championship clubs got lumbered with Thursday nights! But oh i forgot they don't count.