They always bang on its a family game but its the family's that this affects most

I'd like to see Hudds v Catalans on a Thursday night in the playoffs! It will embarrass our game.

It is not only RL fans who should be involved in any protest against Sky, football fans should be involved as well, when you see the amount of money going into the Premier League every year ( I think it is app £35 Million per CLUB this year) and basic season tickets touching a £1000.00 per season at clubs at Arsenal and Chelsea means that any protest by RL fans alone would be laughed at.

Football fans do protest. Its called AMF - Against Modern Football. The thing is, they protest inside the ground when they've already paid for their tickets. Stupid, i know. If football fans dont attend games they'll lower the pricing but they pay bucket loads for tickets so the clubs aren't bothered as long as they're getting the money.
The thing is with our sport is its not a popular sport. RFL and clubs are trying to attract new fans with quite high prices. Its not going to work

It is not only RL fans who should be involved in any protest against Sky, football fans should be involved as well, when you see the amount of money going into the Premier League every year ( I think it is app £35 Million per CLUB this year) and basic season tickets touching a £1000.00 per season at clubs like Arsenal and Chelsea means that any protest by RL fans would be laughed at. When you see the astronomical wages paid to soccer players and the parasitic agents acting as blood suckers nothing will change with Sky until you form a united front.
I know this seems far fetched but if soccer fans threatened to withdraw their subscriptions (call Skys bluff) and at the same time if soccer fans did not send the season ticket renewal forms back by the required date, ( the offers that say that you get app 5% off the full price), A protest like this would make them think.
If this was to happen Sky, the Clubs, over paid players and parasitic agents would Squeal.
It would more that likely never happen but if someone far more intelligent than me could put these type of suggestions on the net it could snowball.

I have just noticed that my post was split, I must have hit the submit button half way through my post instead of preview.
But like I have said the only thing that scares the people I have mentioned is that they not like anything that effects their bloated lifestyle.

Fully sympathise with you on this but Sky know they can get away with anything now because without them we're done for.
I suspect your game is Thursday to accommodate them showing a footy game, as that is the weekend the Football League starts so footy will take priority.

Why would we be done for without them? If it's their second most watched league, surely other channels would also be interested? BBC2 have sod all on a Friday night*, how good would it be if they stuck the rugby on? That could really put us on the map!

*tonight it's live athletics (a one off as the London Aniversary games are on), Gardeners World, Springwatch Guide to Butterflies and Moths and a repeat of an episode of the Trip, in which Steve Coogan reviews restaraunts. I know we're biased but surely a game of rugby league is better than that! Especially when you take out the athletics which aren't normally on

Grimmy you are right a game of RL would be better than anything else they put on and I quite like the BBC's coverage (minus Jonathan Davies!) but has any other channel got the money to fund a deal?

Don't they have the broadcast rights till 2016 anyeay?

So any talk of other potential channels isn't going to happen any time soon.

We aren't helpless.
It's us that spend on beer, pies, club shirts and turn up on a wet cold Friday against London when nobody in the telly cares.
It's our kids that walk down the street wearing club shirts and advertising the sponsors.
But most importantly it's us that shout cheer and give the game an atmosphere, whithout us it rugby in an vacuum.

Stop watching sky is about the only thing that can be done. Cancel sky sports and get premier.

The problem is that like myself plenty of rugby fans also watch cricket, football, union etc etc