both teams play at a very low level in student rugby (check out leeds met v loughborough at headingley next thursday - should be a cracker), and when i was at uni it used to p!$$ us off royaly that their game got shown. in a meeting with the people who run student rugby it was brought up. reason behind it is simple - they get 60k people watching the game on sky apparently just because its a varsity - a lot of people dont ever watch another RL game. in contrast, some super league games on sky only get 30k viewers... sky are only willing to pay to broadcast this game, and the sponsorship associated with it being on sky brings in money as well. that money goes towards funding the entire student game

standard of rugby doesnt ever come into it, which is a shame as student RL is full of good players (a number at superleague and NL clubs).

sad but true

Thought the game was pretty poor and any half decent player would have stood out. Best thing of the night was Barry Mac ragging the bloke in tights