In Dave's defence he's been crocked up ill in bed as he had to cancel an event i had him booked for.

Another thread bemoaning the BBC for their lack of coverage....who'd have thunk it?
Biggest story in RL this week would have been the departure of 3 big names from the Wolfpack, but that club seemed extremely coy about promoting that story, so you can't really blame the BBC.
Roby to skipper Saints isn't a story, the Brownlee Brothers video was an embarrassment, Houghton will interest Hull fans, Rimmer wanting Woods job is hardly a surprise and there you have the content from SKY SPORTS.......the people that own the game. If they can't be bothered, then it's a bit lame YET AGAIN blaming the BBC for the games woes.

London Broncos collected the keys to their new Dacia Duster the other day.....nice to see our CEO got dressed up for the publicity shoot.

You make it sound like the BBC Sport department is 2 or 3 blokes that can't multitask. Each sport has its own dedicated page but apparently BBC can't have any new stories on there because a tennis tournament that takes place during the night UK time is on, late night weekend NFL games and Ashes cricket which read the same as the tennis. I don't think anybody is saying we should be having any current RL story on the main page ahead of these but the idea they can't update the RL page with a more recent story is weak.

I'm not saying it's an issue of resource as such but at the end of the day, we are fighting for attention in a crowded media market and the best we can seemingly come up with is "the referees have got new shirts".

And this isn't just about the BBC - the media in general is seemingly not interested in what we have to say.

It makes you wonder just what the media strategies of the clubs actually are. If it simply involves sending press releases to the mainstream media, then it's no wonder they're failing. People in the media expect more, and there is more and more media out there.

Andy Murray made 5 finals in the Aussie Open......do you reckon those finals got TV figures comparable to the recent RLWC Final.....better maybe or do you think worse?...I've no idea who Kyle Edmund is or who he has beaten to get to the semi-finals, but you can be sure he's as well known in Yorkshire as any RL player......Tennis DWARFS most other sports i terms of viewing figures and media hunger......you should really have steered clear.

The GB grand Prix in 2017 got 450,000 viewers on SKY F1 and Channel 4 got just short of 2 million viewers for the highlights of the Aussie GP last year...........yet the F1 tab on the BBC site is shockingly short of new news.......could that be because it's the of season?

....if you think the BBC have an agenda, then stop visiting their site. If you want RL news go to a RL news outlet, but constantly banging on about how unfair things are is just pointless.

Didn't say it was unfair or an agenda (they're just your default buzzwords every time with threads like these), I said it was lazy and it is despite you thinking the BBC is perfect.

And churning out more pointless figures again, why? No one has said it should be headline main news ahead of the tennis, football or cricket. But each sport has its own dedicated page and they've done nothing with theirs. The point about the tennis (that you missed) is that it's taking place from around midnight to midday UK time......so does that stop them being able to write an RL story at 2/3/4/5pm?

And people will start going to RL sites for news instead of the BBC site and this isn't a failure by them how? They shouldn't be losing any potential visitors because of laziness. Any story in the last few weeks may not be massive news but putting them up (on the RL page) will at least have people visiting more to see if there's any more news, whilst visiting they're then likely to see a news story on another sport that they'll read, something that wouldn't happen if they visit an RL only site.

Got to agree with call me god a lot of it is stupid and bbc will not change so suck it and wait for the season to start

How is comparing F1 and RL, both with stand alone tabs on BBC sport, pointless? Both are in the tail end of their off seasons and both have very little new content......it's relevant by comparison and figures when factual are never pointless, except to someone armed with nothing more than their opinion.

We need to hear more from the coaches and players than we do now as regards their ambitions for the coming season

I will just leave this here https://inews.co.uk/essentials/open-let ... igel-wood/

I will just leave this here https://inews.co.uk/essentials/open-let ... igel-wood/

First game of the new RL season is in 8 days.
First race of the F1 season is in 60 days

F1 finished late November and starts again late March so they're only just hitting the mid point of their off season and new cars revealed and preseason testing is still a month away. RL are having preseason games including more full strength lineups the weekend just gone. RL will have played 6 rounds of games and a WCC before the first F1 race.

So no they aren't both at the tail end of their off seasons so it is a very poor comparison.