Sky sports at all super league clubs through out today

Marwin on 5 live this morning. Spoke very well about the greatest sport.

I know what you mean, but actually they don't. They massively underestimated public opinion when they got involved in the Hillsborough tragedy, the phone tapping scandals, the Iraq War and we could all probably come up with dozens of others. The Sun is run by bigots and chancers who have no clue about their readership.

Everybody likes football despite the fact that it is boring, nothing happens for about 89 minutes in total. I have introduced Football fans to Wigan Warriors and they are amazed at the pace, the athleticism and the honesty of RL players. The product is excellent. It is a family sport that offers value for money. But there is loads of competition for the public to choose from. The public are ill served by the media, as evidenced above by 'Him'. In a way we shouldn't expect to be treated fairly.

On the whole Rugby League is a working class sport, played by and watched by in the main ordinary northern folk. You need to be both skillful and tough to play it though. Skill alone doesn't cut it. It doesn't really chime with today's 'want it now/easy money' society. The sport embodies all that is good about the North of England in a way (I'm generalizing again), and that's hard for the southern media to understand. (That's not to say that it can't be played by anyone at all, but I'm talking about perceptions here).

I do think you are harsh on Blake Solly. He's only just started in the job. It seems to me that in the RL community (for that's what we are) we turn inwards quite a lot and criticize the administrators with no understanding of their roles and the difficulties they have to overcome. Sally Bolton did an amazing job with the World Cup for example. Unfortunately she's moved on. But credit where it's due. The fact that we haven't been able to build on that success isn't really the fault of the RFL.

The big tragedy of last season was the demotion of the Broncos. And the demise of Crusaders hasn't helped expansion either. But Catalans remain a shining example of success, though in a geographical area with some RL history and culture to tap into. I hope that London are able to get back into Super League and maybe a good news story in the capital will get editors to pay some attention. All of the underpinning work in London and the south-east mustn't go to waste.

On radio 4 at about 7:30, speaking about the British Bulldogs.

That statement there is absolute nonsence of the highest order, it isn't that they don't understand the endeavour and skill of the sport, just that the sport isn't on the agenda..period.
And your generalisations are complete bollox too, you think people in areas other than the 'North' think any differently from a working class POV, what about the 'middle classes' of any given area?
The problem isn't the people in the 'South', or should I say outside of the M62 corridor, the problem lies elsewhere far far closer to home

never received a ban on that site....just dont bother going there any more.

never received a ban on that site....just dont bother going there any more.

Am i right in thinking though you annoyed them with your imported game from Ireland and England comment?

Yep

Back to the BBC... is anyone else not finding the SL Show on their Sky planner?

Am I doing something wrong?

It is on tonight isnt it?

Don't know much about your Sky planner but, it's on tonight at 23.45 up north, don't know about coverage in Union territory.

It's got a permanent Tuesday 1pm lunch time slot on BBC2, about the only thing the BBC got right.

The sport section on BBC Breakfast news covered football (Premier League, ANC final etc) followed by women's rugby union, followed by some funny incident in Dutch football. Annoyingly the lady then says "..and that's all for the sport..." and the programme carries on.

Just shows we are pretty far down the pecking order at the BBC given it was our opening week of the season.