*source 2015 <----- down by over 15%

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Moonie Magic 2014

As there appears to be no thread on SL attendances, I'll assume they are down also.

You're welcome.

Unsurprising given the utter contempt with which Sky treat RL in 2015.

Super League matches moved to an awful Thursday night timeslot putting them in direct competition with numerous other live sports.
Boots N All now filmed in the Sky Studios cafe rather than an actual studio, and only featuring one guest.
SL Full Time changed from a panel show to a non-studio show, and now reduced to a half hour highlights show.
Back Chat and Supermen scrapped, NRL highlights show scrapped.
Coverage on Sky Sports News massively reduced and often cut altogether from the hourly rotation.
No Championship coverage of any kind bar Summer Bash, despite holding the rights.

RL is the ONLY sport to which Sky holds any kind of exclusive rights not to be part of the "Your home of..." marketing campaign, even the likes of GAA and Netball feature this branding.

Here we go, this should be fun........

Absolute bore.. why post? Honestly. Why?

Who gives a ?

Not surprised, lots of televised games bit of a borefest more on a thursday than friday nights for some unknown reason. Bad Ref Standards, Poor Commentary and less intensity in matches doesn't help.

Oh, but...



More comebacks than The Rolling Stones. How many's this now, 6?

How long til your next dummy spit and a promise that you'll never return again?

We've still got some big games to come.
Warrington v Wigan
Leeds v St Helens
Wigan v Leeds
Warrington v St Helens
& Hull KR v Hull FC
Should all bump the average up a bit. As should the top games from the top 8. You've got another round of the top clubs playing each other which will put the average up.

Definitely agree the game needs more stars. It's partly our own fault for not making stars of our own players though that in itself is a symptom of the poor international game as its that that creates stars.

I also think we should be looking to poach Union stars at the end of their careers. I don't give a toss what they play like they'll bring much needed kudos and recognition to the sport. In the end if SL clubs signed Billy Slater, Cameron Smith & Greg Inglis virtually no-one outside the RL world would notice or pay any attention.

Sign an ex-England Union player and you'll get some newspaper inches.

The fact that they're showing all of Catalans home games will bump the average down a bit. That doesn't really matter because it's bonus content. The fact that they haven't changed their commentators or presentation style in 20 years and a good number of people are heartily sick of it will bump the average down further. That's more of a concern.

It does show the claims that the problem was a lack of P+R and 'the regular season not mattering' for the complete nonsense it always was. Perhaps now that stupid parochial nonsense will be ignored and the real issues can be overcome.

Saying that, Catalans will effect the figures and the other issue is that these figures are based on the top 10 watched programmes so it may not include all figures.

I know, the total lack of RL coverage on Sky is disgusting and as William Eve so rightly pointed out last year, they've got no interest in the CC either.

Are there really matches on tv Tues and Wed next week? Result! (for the exiled TV fan like me)

The ones on Tues & Wed are being broadcast online on their online-only channel, so technically not on TV but close enough

So you've pointed out two Cup matches, two matches being shown by the BBC and two matches that are not being broadcast on TV despite there being 5 Sky Sports channels, most of which are showing filler content like "Time of our Lives" and "Sky Sports Years: 2011" during the timeslot that those matches will be taking place. Nice one.