Love it. Even has the dark side references with Union.

That is the first time that film has ever put a smile on my face, thankyou.

indeed



If you didn't like the star wars prequels then you're stupidpants

Oh I think the clubs are doing that quite nicely without any assistance from Sky!!!!

I wonder if the clubs REALLY know who their "customers" are and who Sky's "customers" are.

You could always find out from the media, thanks to the efforts of media managers the clubs employ

Good idea... and perhaps at the same time, this individual could also change the entire demographic of sports fan base - say from a majority being C2 (skilled working class) and D (working class) to A (upper middle class) and B (middle class) so that we can sell our TV rights for vastly more than the anticipated audience as they are deemed to be attractive for potential advertisers

Sometimes, people’s naivety in these things staggers me

have i got this right ?.

a company like gillette pays more for the right to advertise,before,during and after an RU game on sky tv than it does for a SLE game ?.

yep

No they don't. Martyn Sadler at League Publications said quite clearly about two years back that when his company looked at advertising on Sky they found it was cheaper to do so with RU matches than RL.

For the growth of the game I'd love to see them get a split package like NRL.

Friday night 2 games and Saturday 5pm on Sky.
Sunday afternoon BBC HD channel

Time to get SL onto FTA and break the Sky Monopoly. They pay us less than RU so the exclusive value is clearly not that valuable.

Indeed...ESPN are probably more "global" than SKY........

If we can get ESPN on board to show games as well as Sky I don't see how it can be bad for Super League. Having the Friday and Saturday night games on Sky and a Sunday lunchtime game on ESPN would be ideal IMO. The RFL should also look into whether having seperate rights for the playoffs would be workable. If there is a chance that it could be then why not? They are going to need all the money they can get from this new deal. The BBC, for example, won't want to show a league game every week but a live playoff game may be more tempting, as they will only be giving up four weeks of their scheduling for them.

One thing that can definitely improved on is highlight shows. One thing that there should be is a proper highlights show, preferably on Sunday night on Sky after every game has been played, with detailed analysis of how and why key tries were scored. There could also be a Soccer AM/Footy Show style programme for ESPN.

In my dream ideal world this is how the league season TV wise would go

Friday 8pm ko- Sky
Saturday 6pm ko - Sky
Sunday 12:30pm ko - ESPN

The first week of the playoffs would be like this

Friday 8pm ko - Sky
Saturday 3pm ko - BBC
Sunday 12:30 ko - ESPN
Sunday 3pm ko - BBC

then for the next two weeks followed by

Saturday 3pm ko - BBC
Sunday 3pm ko - Sky or ESPN

For the Grand Final itself I'm not too sure. It does need to be on the BBC somehow. Maybe it could be rotated between the three channels, like the Superbowl used to be in the states.

There is not a chance the scenrario above is remotely possible. How much do you think Sky would pay to show just 2 play off games??

Highlights get very poor viewing figures so Sky just would not be interested