Supporting a Championship team I would be happy to see Leeds in the Championship. I watch most of the Sky games irrespective of which teams are being featured, I would guess that Leeds fans would do the same..

The doom and gloom around the relevance Leeds being relegated would have on Sky is from their fans overstating the club’s importance.

No, you're absolutely right. A product losing one of its few marquee institutions would in no way devalue that product to potential investors. Losing the club with the highest attendance and viewing figures will have no impact whatsoever on the bottom line of a sport that already struggles financially. It's just Leeds fans being high and mighty, not economic reality.

Spot on!

Some will who follow the sport very closely and are the types to go on RL forums to talk about the sport....think people are underestimating how many casual fans their is though who’ll tune in when it’s their team playing but not religious watchers of the sport weekly. I personally will watch Leeds Utd games when they’re on tv, but I don’t watch other Championship fixtures usually whereas a bigger football fan will watch more routinely. Given the size of the city of Leeds they will have more casual fans than others who will watch like this when it comes to RL.

The Catalans game at home has also now been confirmed for Sky so that’ll be 10 in 12 games Leeds have been on Sky and only two that weren’t were ones scheduled for Sunday (none Sky game days) from the start of the season.

Seconded. And Sky's love in with showing Leeds is a joke. By far one of the worst teams to watch this year yet they persist on showing them.

Maybe they're trying to entice the Love Island type of viewer.... people that know they really shouldn't be watching such sheeite but they just can't help themselves...

I find it a touch embarrassing that Leeds fans are attempting to make fans of other clubs who would like them to go down feel guilty about it.

Some Leeds fans are getting a bit like Liverpool fans in football as in believing the whole sport revolves around their club. I'd like to see them get relegated and take their bloody annoying Leeds Utd songs with them. To hell with the 'tv deal' they keep banging on about.

So many people on here who have no clue about the TV deal.

I will spell it out for you. Leeds going down will have no bearing on the new deal what so ever.

It’s irrelvant who’s playing as sky find it hard to sell the advertising during breaks because no one wants to advertise their wares to a load of working class people

Why do you think the domestic cricket tv rights are worth over a billion but have a fraction of the viewers? Because affluent people watch cricket so companies fall over themselves to advertise them.

But sure Leeds fans, keep on believing you are a paramount to a new Tv deal when it’s the polar opposite

Not trying to make anyone feel guilty about it, just pointing out they’re kidding themselves if they don’t think it’ll make a difference.

Look at the grief Leeds got from other clubs for not wanting to do a reserve team over the last few years. Even though apparently all other clubs wanted it they couldn’t properly organise it and made a mess of it between themselves and other clubs and their fans pointing the finger at Leeds because Leeds apparently needed to do it too for it to work and Leeds non involvement was key to why we weren’t getting a reserve League this last few years. Cue Leeds potentially getting relegated and now those same opposition fans are saying it would make no difference to the main league. Just because you don’t want to or generally can’t see it that Leeds’ presence is significant doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Is that a hypothetical question or are you saying Leeds on TV means the potential to double the audience?

I trust you've got the viewing figures ? why not post them so we can all see how much more Leeds bring to Sky.

Not many people actually watch the advert breaks, Working class people in pubs get th’ale in or go for a slash. Those at home raid the fridge, wash up or send the kids to bed. People like you probably get the Butler to do all that and probably watch the match for you as well.