For your own mental wellbeing, please find another hobby. I have never seen a post from you that is not utterly negative. It cannot be healthy to dislike everything about your main interest. You must have hated the Four Nations.

There is one positive, I guess: only a few weeks until you get to cast your eye over the opening week attendances.

The irony is, I guess, is that someone did buy Salford, and is discovering that it's dying!

Bring back Winter Rugby, Scrumdown highlights show on ITV & delayed "live" broadcasts of the 2nd half of CC games.

Those were the days!

There is one reason for this, Jon Wilkin went around it a few weeks ago, the British weather, the elite talk about these things obviously, RL needs good weather, you only have to see most of the matches in Aus, only the very very best can play good football in poor conditions, like the Manly v Melbourne match in march 2014. But as Bill Harrigan says, "Each week you'll have one very good match, one very poor match but most will be somewhere in the middle.

As has bn said b4, RL suits indoor artificial pitches more than any other sport, and we need more of them down, why don't we contact David Rockefeller and ask him to pay for an 80,000 capacity (NOT all-seater) indoor stadium with a 4g pitch in Sheffield for us, to play the SL GF there and all internationals?

In fact it actually said "More of the sports that matter", after listing Premier League, Champions League, Football League, Capitol One Cup, Formula 1, The Ashes, International Tests and ODIs, ICC World Cup, US Masters, Boxing, NFL and 'European Rugby'. This honestly seems like a deliberate snub and an intentional slap in the face to RL.

The level of paranoia on here is quite alarming

You could well be right!!!

People see/read/hear things and pass them on or comment.

What's that all about?



As another piece of conspiricy, and to keep the Daily Wail types happy, have you noticed that RL ALWAYS follows Union on the Sky ticker at the bottom of the screen and that when RL gets to the front or nearly they go to an ad break.

They seem to do things in alphabetical order but U before L!!!!

Right.

Because RL is clearly more important than the US Masters. Or Formula 1. Or the Ashes.

Seriously, take your tinfoil hat off and give your head a shake. The SL regular season is not an event in the same way that these are. The only one I might query is European Rugby, given that some of these games will be the likes of Glasgow vs some obscure French side in front of 6,000 people. But even then, the Heineken (or whatever it is these days) Cup final is every bit as big an event as say the SL Grand Final for example.

I havent watched SSN for a few years now,does that still happen?

Don't know, the presenters just seem to spend their time nowadays reading out tweets and hashtags from famous sports people.

It always felt like it was on a loop just going round & round.
A pointless channel really.

Reckon Sky Sports News is important, it's often on in pubs and a lot seem to watch it, though it hasn't been on freeview for years. I've never noticed that things are usually in alphabetical order on there.