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| He who pays the piper plays the tune and without sky rugby league and maybe union and football would be dead  |
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Sky don't care about match going supporters, only about the TV audience. In football, said audience is big enough and global enough to support it. That's not the same in RL - if we start to lose people through the turnstiles, especially at clubs like Salford where we struggle for support as it is, then the game becomes less profitable, less marketable and starts to die. I'm not against television coverage, but it needs to be balanced with the impact on match going fans as well. Cricket has that good balance, you know when the fixtures are going to be played from the start of the season, but football is on a bit of a whim and moving games 5 days beforehand is just ludicrous, regardless of where the game ends up being played.'"
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| Quote Cronus="Cronus"Looks certain to be at Leigh.
While I can accept Sky bankroll the sport and therefore pull the strings, this is hugely damaging for Salford as a club and there are a lot of furious and fed up fans, and it's not like RL can afford to be upsetting and losing fans. I expect there to be more Wakefield than Salford fans at LSV next Saturday.
Not good.'"
Pretty much nail on head, I think also with a fairly healthy following from Wakefield this will be like a home game for them as I fear some of our season ticket holders will turn up (those without other saturday plans) but thats about it.
Also after we sold Smith to Wigan the rest of the team put the cue on the rack, even Vievers has said he only wants players who are with him next term that in itself speaks volumes, so i'd have my money on a Wakey win. This also impacts Bradfords trip to the south of France for mine they may as well not bother.
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| Quote GT="GT"Oh, well that's alright, then. Football fans can get sent from Manchester to Portsmouth on a Tuesday night, but they put money into the game so let them get on with it. And as has already been mentioned, I can't remember a football match being moved for TV at such short notice. People will already have made alternative plans for Saturday, booked time off work and so on.
Sky don't care about match going supporters, only about the TV audience. In football, said audience is big enough and global enough to support it. That's not the same in RL - if we start to lose people through the turnstiles, especially at clubs like Salford where we struggle for support as it is, then the game becomes less profitable, less marketable and starts to die. I'm not against television coverage, but it needs to be balanced with the impact on match going fans as well. Cricket has that good balance, you know when the fixtures are going to be played from the start of the season, but football is on a bit of a whim and moving games 5 days beforehand is just ludicrous, regardless of where the game ends up being played.'"
I'm not saying it's alright, but why is anyone shocked? It's nothing new and has happened for years.
Rugby League, Football, Union, whatever, it's a TV programme in as much as Coronation Street or University Challenge is. The TV company pays a fortune for it so they get the final say on when and what they show.
Do people really walk around, heads in the sand, thinking this game might not have been moved to be on TV? As soon as it was fairly obvious it could decide a play-off place a bit of common sense needs to be used.
Sadly, the money from Sky is probably worth more than that taken through the gate by those who'll walk away from the game. And really, does a few fixtures moves during a season cause people to stop watching, or a poor team on the field/badly run off the field? Fairly sure what the reason was at Wakefield. |
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While it is a pretty bad situation for Salford fans, there really isn't an alternative solution. SKY effectively fund SL, they pay millions fot the broadcast rights. Rugby league isn't big enough ti say "no you can't show that game at that time"
From SKY's point of view Wigan v.s Saints is the main fixture and gets the Friday night primetime, also as the Saints/Wigan fans mentioned they've sold 17,000 tickets for tha game.
The 8th spot race is the ony meaningful games SKY has left to show. They can't change the Bulls/Catalns fixture as obviously peoples flights and hotels come into that.
They could have maybe just shown the Catalans/Bulls game on Saturday evening and not bothered showing the Salford game, but as said earlier, SKY millions to fund the games they want to and we're not big enough to turn round and say no.
It is incredibly harsh on the Salford fans though.
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| Quote Bull Mania="Bull Mania"While it is a pretty bad situation for Salford fans, there really isn't an alternative solution. SKY effectively fund SL, they pay millions fot the broadcast rights. Rugby league isn't big enough ti say "no you can't show that game at that time"
From SKY's point of view Wigan v.s Saints is the main fixture and gets the Friday night primetime, also as the Saints/Wigan fans mentioned they've sold 17,000 tickets for tha game.
The 8th spot race is the ony meaningful games SKY has left to show. They can't change the Bulls/Catalns fixture as obviously peoples flights and hotels come into that.
They could have maybe just shown the Catalans/Bulls game on Saturday evening and not bothered showing the Salford game, but as said earlier, SKY millions to fund the games they want to and we're not big enough to turn round and say no.
It is incredibly harsh on the Salford fans though.'"
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Someone along the line either at Sky or the RFL has dropped a major clanger, whoever it was ought to dragged into a dark room and be beaten up.
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| Quote Bull Mania="Bull Mania"..The 8th spot race is the ony meaningful games SKY has left to show. ..They could have maybe just shown the Catalans/Bulls game on Saturday evening and not bothered showing the Salford game, but as said earlier, SKY millions to fund the games they want to and we're not big enough to turn round and say no.
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Cats Game is contracted to al-Jazeera!
from the Grundian "[iThis has been an accident waiting to happen for years, with the RFL making no efforts to insist on the last round of fixtures kicking off simultaneously as in most credible sporting competitions, and the situation has been further complicated by the involvement of another television company, al-Jazeera, who now cover the Catalan Dragons home matches – and have set down a Saturday afternoon slot for their last game against Bradford Bulls."[/i
just another ironic nail in our season really
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| Quote They can't change the Bulls/Catalns fixture as obviously peoples flights and hotels come into that.
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Cant they? I had flights to a Broncos game down there a couple of seasons ago and at the last minute Sky changed the game to Sun night. If I had used my flights I would have been back in my front room just in time to watch it on the box!! |
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| Quote Bilko="Bilko"All the games should kick off at same time. How dramatic would that be with three games of top 8 potential. But this sport seems to be killing drama and instead opts for a scenario that could mean that if Rovers and Bradford both loses earlier in the day, Wakefield will play Salford at a neutral venue in a dead duck contest. Awful!'"
Just a small point, 8th spot is now only possible for Bradford or Wakefield and although there is a theoretical possibility of Wakefield acheiving the same points as Huddersfield, they would still be miles adrift on points difference.
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