Literally leagues apart. There is no way we'd be top playing the way we have been, teams would have capitalised on all the errors and their defenses wouldn't have tired. Watching the SL at times has been like watching our games on fast forward.

I understand what you're saying, but that's not really the point.

In this country, SL is top tier and Championship is 2nd tier. It doesn't really matter what the attendances are relative to something else. Otherwise we'd never get to see Scottish football 3rd/4th tier results on the TV every week - some of their attendances are on a par with English non-league level 5.
Similarly cricket County Championship matches only get a smattering of fans, but you still expect match reports.

I think the biggest problem is that the media are mostly London based, and they think there's only one code of Rugby worth covering.

There is an issue with not enough viewers or importance, tonight on the BBC look north, the only important single issue was the women's rugby league Wembley game which I am ok with, but why the he'll does nothing else exist, nothing else mentioned only Leeds & women's game due to the bbcs s
Woke practices, ie minority over takes a larger majority, period !!! ????
Wakey does not exist choose what !!!

The BBC advert that says there are two finals on Saturday and completely ignores the Wakefield Sheffield game winds me up. I understand that SL will always get priority but surely a Wembley appearance warrants some recognition by them.

Let’s be honest. If the women’s final had been named the1895 or anything but the CC it wouldn’t get anywhere near the same exposure. Probably not even be at Wembley. It’s purely the name that’s the reason not the actual game or teams.

The women’s game is effectively like a clubs reserves compbar a few teams and it won’t ever imo get to a point where it’s self sustainable for part or full time like championship/superleague but in this generation it ticks the boxes and I’m all for the sport growing in any capacity. The only way the women’s game will do this quicker is to piggyback off of games like this to try claw some investment and drum up interest.

It’s purely the CC tag. The only reason fans are talking about it is because all 3 finals are on same day but one of the three isn’t televised to the vast majority of the nation.

The club are doing a good job of promoting it though which is good.

As a bit of an aside does anyone know how much the prize money is for 1895? And is it comparable to the sales or just set amount. Would hope it’s a healthy amount being a final at Wembley.

Even though it's an all Yorkshire final, Calendar only deemed it worth about 30 seconds of exposure with fleeting interviews with Matty Ashurst and Aston senior and junior. Blink and you missed it.