I think you are right when the RFL themselves do not appear to have the best interests of the game at heart, I think your 100,000 is a bit far of the mark but the sentiments you express I fear are all to true, think small and that is exactly what you will become, a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy.

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.