Quote: Uncle Rico "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?'"
Well, they have given our sport MILLIONS of pounds since 1989 (admittedly nowhere near the levels of PL, Cricket, Golf, F1 etc), and them "saving the sport" in 95, with the launch of SL a year later, so I'd expect them to plug RL in their "what's coming up this month" ad, but we rarely feature. If we do do, it's for a second, if we're lucky. We're bombarded with US sports (admittedly the time delay facilitates this) and women's sports, where one girl and her dog are the attendances (when you take away the free tickets....it DOES happen).
I know Salford, Wakey etc have poor attendances, but there's teams with 5 figure crowds, week in week out, so the general public ARE interested.
It just annoys me why RL is treated as the "ginger stepchild" of their sports portfolio.