Will they be streamed via the bookies this year? I noticed the all stars game wasn't. Last season I watched them live on Betfair, I e-mailed Betfair yesterday to ask them but Ive yet to recieve a reply.

The All Stars match was on last weekend, or the weekend before.

Was good.

What a beauty...Bennett's first game in charge of the Knights - against the club he coached last year !


Other fixtures on week 1 (Mar 1-5) are

Parra v Brisbane
Wests Tigers v Cronulla
Penrith v Bulldogs
NZ v Manly (grand final repeat)
Canberra v Melbourne
Cowboys v Gold Coast
Souths v Roosters

Can't wait

Are the rumours right that Virgin will have Premier Sports for March?

I have the channel on Sky at the minute, but the Mr's has ordered bloody Virgin to be fitted on the 1st of March.

No Premier Sports, no custom

It's a shame Premier Sports isn't (currently) one of the channels you can use via SkyGo. That would have been a great little feature to have available to use.

HD would be good too

Virgin and Premier Sports have been in talks recently, but they broke down. Virgin offered Premier Sports the opportunity to run as a premium subscription package that you had to pay for separately (same as Sky Sports etc). Premier Sports wanted to be part of the XL package (same as ESPN) at no extra cost (but presumably at a nice rate for them). Virgin said no to that. I wouldn't hold your breath for Premier Sports on Virgin in the near future (unfortunately)

Cheers for the info.

I'll be sticking with Sky. Premier sports has been brilliant value for money and I'd miss it.

Just to be clear it's £2 through Sky or £7.99 direct from Premier? If you get it through Sky do you have to have some sort of Sky Sports package? cos I got rid of mine

It's a totally different subscription to your Sky package; the payment is made directly to Premier Sports and the last time I subscribed, there was no minimum contract, so I cancelled it as soon as the NRL season finished and will be re-subscribing soon, in time for round 1.

The only downside is that it's not in HD and can appear quite grainy - I upgraded to a fancy dan TV recently and perversely, that seemed to make it even worse; I guess HD might come later if they get sufficient numbers of people signing up.

All in all though, terrific value, if not especially good for marital harmony; 1 live game, 2 Sky games and 3-4 NRL games per weekend tested the bread knife's patience somewhat.

At £2 it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the SRL from sky sports and you get more games per week. Not bothered that it isn't in HD and might be a bit grainy. I'm guessing all I have to do is contact sky and ask them to switch premier sports on?

You can only subscribe direct with Premier and it is advertsied at £7.99 per month.

I was just highlighting that it works out at £2.00 a week.

As previously stated it £7.99 per month (which works out at approx £2 per week), totally seperate to Sky. No need to have any Sky subscription just a Sky receiver, dish and viewing card (you can get the card from Premier).

do they still charge a connection fee?