Just been on the BBC sport website to see what pre-season information and news there is in readiness for the new Super League Season and the two main headlines are "Former Rugby League Star denies rape claims" and an even sillier headline of "Rhinos grow grass with cannabis lamps" Yet go to the Union page and all the headlines are positive and relevant with loads of information about the six nations, what the hell is going on isn't about time the leaders of our fine game grew a pair and started to address the BBC's continuous belittling of our game and poor coverage

Ryder always gave the impression that he'd prefer to be seen coming out of a brothel by the Sunday papers, rather than a RL ground.

The rights a thing happens with every broadcaster and every sport. The BDO at Lakeside got far more coverage on BBC Radio 2 etc than the PDC World Championship.

The reason for that is that one of the commentators co-presents the breakfast show. Radio 5 Live the other year had full match commentary of the PDC World Final, a tournament that they don't have highlights of. They also did full text commentary, something which they repeated this year. It's different for different broadcasters. Sky Sports don't have the 6 Nations, yet make a massive fuss over it. Just like the do the Olympics, World Cup, Euro's etc.

My comment regarding Sky Sports was down to the fact that they HAVE the option of showing Challenge Cup games, but because they don't have exclusive rights, most of the time they don't bother exercising the option.

To get back to the original post on this topic, Gareth Raynor has been found NG on all charges> I'm almost surprised that the Beeb didn't run a story entitled, 'Ex Leicester Tigers RU Star found Not Guilty on trumped up sex charges.' Everyone has conveniently forgotten that he did go to RU for a couple of years.