SKY call the shots and we have to live with it, they are stumping up the cash so it stands to reason.

Not saying i disagree with the above posts, they are quite right, but it will never change whilst SKY have such a strangle hold over the game.

It needs someone at the RFL to grow a backbone and say our sport our terms. If they let SKY push them around they'll do it all the more. Fans managed to stop club mergers (Huddersfield-Sheffield and Hull-Gateshead were take overs not mergers) and we managed to see the back of Monday night games.

It's time to pressure the RFL to listen to what fans want or in this case don't want. I'll be writing, emailing and posting my objects to the Thursday night games I urge others to do the same.
#NoToThursdayNightRL

At least your getting money for Thursday night,Leigh had to play countless matches on Thursday on prem sports and not receive a single penny plus the gate dropped a third,brilliant ain't it

The biggest difference between the GAA and the RFL is that the GAA wouldn't collapse without SKY who pay about €2,000,000 a year for the 14 games they show. To be fair to the RFL, many other if not most other pro sports owe everything to TV. The difference is the GAA get a major slice of everything from the grass roots up including a very similar attendance figure across both their games, as well as owning a number of stadiums giving them about a 40% profit margin on their turn over. It helps when you're not paying "footballers' wages to payers too!
Sky paying €2 million on top of the €10 million RTE pay is purely icing on a pretty wealthy cake!