2 refs will sort out a lot of problems


Just need to find some decent ones now.

"as would most others" or "personally be a lot happier and I suspect some others would be too"....Make your mind up.

I don't have Sky Sports, but, thank goodness it's available IMO as I attend most games but can't on Friday but will find it on somewhere in a pub or would you expect me and other displaced species to be happy listening on a wireless somewhere?

Depending upon your average ticket price to maintain the same income clubs would have to generate quite a few thousand fans every week and as you alluded to earlier there isn't a massive total walk up to the HJ even though we have been playing great RL, or do you seriously think that fans would be encouraged to flock every other week by a standard KO time and a semi pro game?

Sky Sports is not the root of all evil, you're a football fan do you want to see a return to the days of Gerald Sinstatd and Brian Moore with coverage limited to a highlights programme and the odd live game?

Gerald Sinstadt, there's a blast from the past

The first part referred to most other sports, not most other rugby league fans.

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No, I want it to cost less than £45 to get into a match. It's funny how in both football and rugby league, admission prices are considerably higher now than they were before clubs main source of revenue was TV money. Really you'd think that wouldn't be the case, but it definitely is.

As for watching matches in pubs, unless you live in an RL town then good luck finding one that will show our games because in my experience it isn't easy.'"

Definitely isn't easy to watch a game in a pub in a non RL area.

In London I've been asked some random questions either by bar staff when asking or random people when watching or some strange statements.

"Is this the Heineken Cup?"
"Is this the Aviva Premiership?"
"Oh they showing 2nd division now I don't know these 2 teams"
"I thought rugby league was domestic and union was international, didn't know they were 2 different sports?"
"This is the council estate rugby"
"This is the rugby for guys not good enough to make union teams"
"Have they had men sent off?"
"If only England nion] could play this fast" not realising it's 2 different codes.
"I prefer union it's not stop start, these league lot are not as fit"
"There are more tries in league because you can't tackle properly"
"It can't be league if you're playing a French team no one plays it outside the north"
"I wish football had a commentator like this guy [stevo]"
"This is the good rugby [football fans]"
"Why don't they push in the scrum?"

Love living down here :-/

You don't have to go as far as London to hear things like that. I put our match on one of the tellies at work a few weeks ago and a lad who lives walking distance from Salford's ground asked, "Are Sale Sharks in this league?" I was also asked by someone who wanted to change the channel, "Are you REALLY watching this?" because he couldn't believe anyone actually was.

Half the grounds in Super League are within about 25 miles of here!

#PrayForYed

In fairness there's more to life than living near rugby league teams. If the cost of living in London was more affordable in relation to the wage I'd realistically expect to earn there I'd have moved down years ago.

As you've admitted to putting Wire on the telly at work, I'm surprised you've not had a call from 'that there' London with a suitable job offer to meet your salary expectations...all the screens at the LSE go to P&B on match day

Arf.

I work for Virgin Media, so tellies with TiVo boxes connected to them are everywhere.

I'm from London. It's no better than up here, just more expensive and more diverse.

A few months ago I was in the Butchers Arms, at half time the rugby had to go off because some regular insisted that nobody ever watches SL there (until that time I often did) so on went some obscure football match.

Interestingly, I was at a conference yesterday with several top directors from a FTSE 100 PLC. A colleague mentioned RL and they all scoffed and dismissed the code. They weren't all Southerers, three were South African.

We sponsor a lot of sports, all of which are alien in the council estates of Britain. Even if it made perfect commercial sense, I could never get an RL sponsorship deal signed off.