very informative thankyou, perhaps you'd care to enlighten us with a link to this thread so we can verify its a genuine source making this point and not a well meaning but uninformed numpty

Ah ok. I thought as you were so quick and adamant in your reply to my post that you might have a fact to back it up, even if it was just one. Never mind

same here, i got my subscription last august and at the start there was literally no reception if there was even light rain. but since the new year the rain hasnt affected it all so i hope this good form continues?!

Here's my response from Setanta. They couldn't have got it more wrong if they had tried. You've got to laugh or else you'd cry.

Thank you for your e-mail.


ESPN has NRL rights in most of our territories, but unfortunately we do not have rights for games and highlights in certain countries that receive the version of ESPN available in UK, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Nordic countries and several other Eastern European territories. We are always speaking with the NFL about expanding our coverage, but the NFL has rights agreements in places across Europe that prohibit some of our negotiations from progressing until such rights expire.


If you require further assistance please contact our Customer Services on 08712 00 33 22 one of my colleagues will be happy to help. We are open 7 days a week from 8am to 9pm.

It's even worse the fact they mention NRL in the first line(even though they are obviously referring to NFL with the ESPN reference) then go on an NFL rant.

I e-mailed back to say thanks a lot, that would have been great if the original e-mail of mine was about American Football. Could you read it again please.

They have obviously got the resident idiot on e-mail response duty.

What will they respond about next? NHL??

complete waste of time trying mate.

I'm starting to think so.

Then again why I thought some plum at the bottom of the pecking order who has never made a decision at Setanta all their lives would give me answers I don't know.

thanks, pleased to be of assistance.

still no facts or links?

damn this is going to be painful....


dally is right...kind of..



according to jamie peacock,who was having another rant about the number of games that the players play said something along the lines of.." the clubs get £300,000 more from this season (tv money),yet we are still playing more games....why?"