well done Leigh your fans were great last game of season at crusaders,just a pity our club decided to put you all in a different stand spoilt what would have been a fantastic atmosfear, good luck next season

Because with Womans Rugby World Cup and Currie Cup they're only buying the rights to show the existing footage, for probably not that much. It's a significantly bigger investment they'd need to make to show RL Championship matches as they would actually need to do the OB themselves (and they wouldn't recoup any of that cost though syndication as no other country would be interested in buying it).

Now I'm not one to defend Sky, not a fan of them, or their owner.
However you're right about the OB coverage.

On the way back from Cardiff after one of the RLWC games we were joined at our table on the train by a guy who was one of the producers for the BBC. While chatting I bemoaned the fact that they always show the all SL tie in the Challenge Cup when you can see some other games are going to be real hard fought affairs. His response was that the costs for OB were so high that anyone taking a punt on a non-SL tie would pretty much kill their career if it turned out to be a damp squib. Some of the figures he mentioned were pretty eye-watering.

And while I think about it, well done Leigh.
We'll see you next year.

Well done Leigh, see you down in the Smoke next year!