My point is the RFL are the Governing body and as such are the Guardians of the sport and as such are responsible for the mess. No problem giving the SL Chairman a say but not of control on certain matters otherwise it just becomes a mess as it is now, too many chiefs and not enough Indians as the saying goes.

Even the Club don't have an idea at present when it is? No wonder people laugh at our game!!

The RFL are the ones who can't organise this, that's my problem

Presumably they asked 5Live to broadcast the draw at the most appropriate time, which they sort of did, the problem was the presenter was an uneducated moron - did he ever accept Rovers' offer of going to the game?

I'm not sure on the effort, I think they are really trying but when the clubs are messing up like they are then there are bigger problems, like if they'd accepted Betfair's offer last year we'd be halfway through a contract with Betfair paying 850k a year, rather than sponsor less. The RFL have the blame for that, but the simple fact is that with hindsight the clubs made the wrong decision. (I was behind the deal with Stobart tbh, it seemed a good offer on the face of it but once the details were revealed it turned out it wasn't very good at all.)

Sometimes I wish sky had the challenge cup then at least we'd get professional draw on sky sports news.

You know that this isnt the BBC's fault dont you? They did broadcast a shoddy draw last time round, but this is all down to the RFL being inept

Local BBC Radio covers all the games.
The draw should have been after one of yesterdays games at HKR, Warrington or Workington.

then there may have been the risk of putting the wrong balls in the freezer and the draw being all to cock.

Yes I do know and I wasn't for one minute blaming the bbc just saying with sky sports having a dedicated sports news channel it would probably be done live on there if sky had the rights.

I'm pretty sure they do they've just chosen not to broadcast one of the games? They definitely showed a couple of games last season because I watched Fev Wigan on Sky Go.

have not read all posts but heard the draw isnt till saturday, anyone else heard this?

have not read all posts but heard the draw isnt till saturday, anyone else heard this?

The thing is, Bacon is far from poorly educated, he's just disinterested, they didn't even have a sports reporter on hand to assist him. Given that George Riley is "Mr Rugby League" I'd have thought he'd be stamping his feet about not getting the gig for a ten minute slot, but he wasn't, he took to Twitter to defend Bacon at any cost.

5Live is becoming a bit of a joke, it's gone down the drain in recent months, coincidentally since it's moved to Salford for some reason.

Yeah I thought they had some rights and remember watching a cc game on sky last year but they haven't shown any this year so maybe they've lost the rights they had.

They haven't lost the rights they could show one they chose not to maybe they will show a quarter and a semi