Complaining about fans complaining for a valid reason!!

True, for £1.8m you may have to just suck it up and deal with it.

But for Championship teams it could be much more damaging.

Say if they move a big Batley home game with a large following expected to a Thursday night at 9 days notice, that could cost the club some serious money! They get no remuneration from SKY for their troubles as only SL home teams get the 15k compensation money when on TV.

For a club that has built their whole squad on 150k if they lose out on £15,000 (1000 less fans at circa £15 a ticket) then that is a huge hole financially for them to fill.

That is possibly worst case scenario but if SKY said that is what they wanted to do, would the RFL have the power (or inclination) to stop them?

The compensation for Leeds to have this game on Sky is £25K, the £1.8m is centrally distributed from the sky deal to all SL clubs. The selection of match compensation averages 25K from again a centrally pooled fund from SL clubs. Therefore Leeds are being compensated for 1000 travelling Leigh fans and Leeds Home fans, i know which Gary would have wanted compensation for 1000 fans or actually seeing upwards of 2500 on a Friday....

Spot on.
Of course they should choose which games they want to show but, there does need to be some consideration for the sport and for it's spectators.
spreading games over 4 days isn't helping with attendances and TV games in front of empty stadia dont help the spot and it doesn't look good on TV.

There has to be a sensible balance between the demands of Sky vs what is good for the sport.

I haven't seen much complaining from leigh fans. Besides they have more important things to think about than a dead rubber against lowly Leeds.

Attendance of 10,556 declared at Leigh yesterday , a good atmosphere , a highly competitive game thanks to an excellent Batley team performance , looking forward to seeing similar next year