as an aside we were the last team to appear on sky this year, waiting until round 8 we were last on sky on the 15th May, I had hoped that the game against the Crusaders at Wrexham would be shown but that has now moved from the Saturday night slot to a Sunday afternoon on the 1st August.

Its not just the fact we get less coverage, but we also have one less official. Regardless of whether you think the video ref is a good or bad thing, surely one team having it more than another is unfair.

maybe more to do with viewing figures & entertainment value! Putting Salford on at home with no crowd in the stadium does not generate the image well within the game!

Surley still generates a better image than wakefield.

Yeah the atmosphere at Wakefield is disgraceful and comes across really poor on TV.

Yes, you are correct but do you really enjoy watching a game played at Wakefield on Sky!

Quite frankly no!!!! I watched their game against Hull last weekend and it was dreadful. Dull Yorkshire stodge. The most entertaining part of the game was watching John Kear lose the plot on the balcony (something Sky seem obsessed about showing; perhaps they have a sweep stake on how many times he is going to tap his fingers on the rail).

I hardly think showing an empty stadium is Sky's major concern when scheduling. They showed Crusaders at home to Bradford a few weeks ago and there was barely 2000 people there. It's buggerall to do with it. Someone at Sky doesn't think we should be in Superleague and is hell bent on making sure we're not there next time round. They only have McCrae on because he was doing the job before he became our coach!

Whenever we are on the comments are always negative or sarcastic. I am fed up with hearing the patronising tones of Hemmings with his "quaint little old Salford, awww don't they try hard but they're not very good are they" commentary.

Part of our problem is that we don't get the exposure in the first place. If you said name a superleague team to someone on the street who has a bit of knowledge but doesn't really watch that much what would they say? Wigan, Leeds, Saints, Warrington. Why? Cos they're always on.

I'm not saying it would increase attendances by a lot (only a winning team will do that) but a few per season might help. Our advertising is restricted to the Salford Advertiser and the MEN, neither of which are particularly glowing about the club in their articles. The clubs mentinoed above get prime 2 hours prime time TV advertising at least once evry other week. Of course they do better in the marketing dept.

What is unfair, if still the case, is that clubs get a payment (was about 20,000) for TV games. Therefore their is an imbalance in revenues being distributed from the tv deal. I know for football every team has to be shown so many times by a certain date. It is only late in the season that restrictions are lifted so key games can be broadcast. A similar system in RL would be better and fairer.

Don't all teams get a fair share of the Sky money?

Perhaps watch the two games Salford have appeared on Sky and re-assess your "entertainment value" comment.

This table doesnt shock me at all. The sky matches are probably all dealt out before the season begins so the clubs have there pick of who they want to be shown against: The 'big' clubs pick games against other 'big' clubs. The middle clubs pick some games against big clubs and some against middle clubs. The smaller clubs pick games against middle and bigger clubs. I could go into a spiel about how parallels can be made between this system and the flow of money in our economy but thats for another time. Its not just in RL, you see it week in and week out in the prem league. Man utd, chelski and Arsenal feature pretty much every week where as Blackpool will prob get a couple on sky this coming season (most probably when they play one of the top three).

I actually dread us being on (inter)national telly. The posts after many (most) games indicate criticism with the way we play and, I have to say, that often these posts are correct. Imagine the game v Wigan (away) or v Cas (away) being shown and put out as indicative of our "entertainment" value. imagine the cameras focusing on our away support at Hull or Wigan. Imagine focusing on the scuffles at Warrington.

I do feel there is a bias against us (the RL papers never praise us and all teams we beat are "having a day off"). However I still shudder when I remember some of our past games on Sky (a home game v London paricularily sticks in my mind).