Great news ,the game needs a wider audience.

Just got to hope they get a half decent commentator /presentation team, that don't deal in clichés. I'm sick to death of the "bottoms" on Sky.

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Agreed. Let's also hope the camera crew know the action is on the pitch and not the face of the coach sat in the stand.........

I hope this is done well by channel 4, it's brilliant to have a Saturday afternoon match on free to air and hopefully the other 9 games will be good lineups as well. I really hope they get good viewing figures and increase demand to watch televised rugby league.

Whatever happened to that Jon Champion guy often did the BBC matches before Dave Woods. He also did the football I think. He was very good, and also seemed to have great knowledge of RL.

I was only thinking the same, myself. He was good.
Clive Tyldesley wasn't too bad, either. Although, if I had a tenner each time he namedropped a famous RL person he'd spoken to that week, I'd be a rich man.

Seems a good idea more games on TV,hope this does not encourage people to stay at home to watch matches rather than go through the turnstyles ,just a thought.

I don't think so. In fact, I think the opposite is true.

More eyes on the game on TV = more fans = more people wanting to go to matches.

Heard Hemmings and Steve coming out of retirement

. No only joking but it’s great to have a new tv partner just got to hope they get it right and as someone said let’s not turn into a flat cap viewing mess.

We could start by making the game more attractive and entertaining like it was about 10 years ago and previous to that. Hopefully the people who run the game will realise 80 minutes of five drives and a kick doesn’t draw in new supporters.

Was interesting to hear Powell talk about how no scrums (which is obviously going) and 6 again (which is staying) negatively affected the game in his view as it meant teams were much more likely to play centrally trying to generate a quick ruck and the 6 again, rather than playing with a bit of width to make breaks on the edges.

We are too quick sometimes to introduce rule changes / adaptations rather than use a set of rules that have made the game what it is.