Quote: lefty goldblatt "With me ditching Sly (sic) Sports 6 years ago, and me getting my fix of live sports through other (ahem) sources, I'm less exposed to Sly's advertising/treatment of our game. Whenever I have their channels on, we almost seem like an inconvenience /channel filler to them. Almost like asking a stroppy teenager to tidy their room.
Hopefully, C4's emergence will give them a munch needed kick up the proverbial..... and get rid of all their match day team.'"
I've said it before on other threads and hopefully I don't sound like a broken record, or that poor bloke Mike O'Farrell from Middlesex CC (who's being hounded unnecessarily IMO) but why would Sky Sports actively promote our sport? We are not PL Football, or a sport with a premium audience like Golf, I agree with you that we are a stocking filler and it's in their interests to pay as little as possible for our 'product'.
There's plenty of competition on the stocking filler stakes most noticeably Women's Soccer, Women's Netball, Women's Cricket, which is fair enough to an 'enlightened' bloke like me at least it's played in the UK. BUT Women's Basketball from the USA, really?