Who pay the real money so they're not bothered.
Before you then harp on about the fans losing out it's been that way for years as every friday night game is all about the corporate dollar and not the fans and if anyone tells you any different they're lying to you.
Look at the success of monday night football in the US or even NRL, if it's a success maybe Sky will have to throw on a few £££ to the next TV deal, I think it will be a roaring success, genuinely.

I think viewing figures will certainly receive a boost with the Monday night fixture, there's nothing else to do on a Monday...

Corrie End Farm or somethings on on the terrestrial channels? I don't know, i've not watched terrestrial tv since 1992

I was thinking that a big game (such as tonight's) might see attendance figures suffer due to work commitments etc. But, it's not really any different to a Friday game is it?

Yeah, I know a lot who go down the pubs then into town on fridays instead of attending. I swear if it weren't for the recession and decent ticket pricing Wire could average about 17,000 were it for the pub/armchair following; probably the same for most clubs and its definately been the NRLs biggest problem over recent years; bums on seats

what time do these people go to bed???

I can understand people not wanting to take kids, but normal working people should be able to handle getting home at 11.

Whichever way you look at it, monday night games fail to put the to most important groups first. Fans and players.

The games should be at the weekend.

Attendances will be shocking at these games after a while.

I can understand families with young children being put off with the Monday night games but as mentioned, saving your beer tokens and watching Friday games in pubs is often a luring proposition instead of actually going, but attendances don't seem to suffer too much with that.

If I wasn't working late tonight I would definitely have been going the game, Monday night RL is appealing to me, there are too many other distractions on Friday and Saturday nights with ale and fast loose women about.

I love the idea, without football Monday nights are boring, get the missus to watch the soaps in bed and start the week with a bit of excitement, I live in the south and hardly ever watch the Saturday night games as no pubs around here want to show them and most of my friends have no interest to stay home to watch rather than go out!

Sky giving it the big sell with an exciting new angle in presenting.

It's great for TV viewers, probably a pain for away fans.

That said, in the winter era midweek/schoolnight games were fairly regular.

The game will start on Wednesday night at this rate

Don't see why there's so much hype for a mid table clash between 2 teams full of has beens...

Champions vs Runner Ups?

In much the same vein as the Thursday night games in the Championship, they're fantastic from a TV viewing point of view as it lets you see more games rather than clashing with other fixtures, but it's certainly a pain in the backside for those actually attending.