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

you sure about that?

didn't they lose the rights when the new sponsor was announced?

BBC have 1st pick on 2 of the QF's and SKY can show remaining two games.

According to League Express all four of the QF's could be on TV with SKY showing a game on the Friday & Monday only exception to this is if Catalan are drawn at home and the BBC don't pick it then SKY will not cover that game.

Think it's very poor that we still don't know when the draw will take place.....

cheers for that, I agree, it's shambolic that we don't know when the draw is, just adds to the conspiracy theories.

CC games should always be on a Saturday or a Sunday.

The RFL don't get to say what the SL club chairmen can and can't vote on. SL is owned outright by the clubs that comprise it at any given time and they can do pretty much whatever they like with it. It's surprising the number of people who don't realise that SL is privately owned and the RFL merely administer it on behalf of the owners.

Below SL the RFL have more say but are still constrained in certain matters by their constitution which grants certain rights to the clubs that comprise the lower leagues. As an example, they were not able to force the then NL1 clubs to admit us to their league when the merger was being organised.

British RL is far more democratic than most people realise - whether for good or ill.

What a farce.

I couldnt wait any longer so ive drawn it myself and it went ...

Wire v Widnes
Hull fc v Catalan
Sheffield v Wigan
London v Huddersfield

I'll go for
Widnes v hull
Huddersfield v Warrington
London v Wigan
Sheffield v Catalan

apparently the little machine which heats up the Wigan ball is broken, they'll do the draw when its mended