Thought the coverage was very good and bless the presenters, it looked freezing. The commentary duo worked really well together not foisting their opinions on the viewers, Amor was particularly good, could string a sentence together and was informative. The 2 coach interviews were a lot better as well they both offered more than in Sky interviews and looked a lot more relaxed. Well done the C4 team, a well executed first effort. Will Amor be part of the team next week as it is Saints or will it be a different person each week?

C4 made a good start on both the presenting and commentary front. I didn't find myself being irritated as I do with Sky's commentary team, as someone has already remarked, less is more.

Sky have needed a total refresh of the punditry team for a while now. FAR too many voices when one will do, as Ch4 have shown. Really impressed with Amor too.
Bravo ch4

On another note....Helen Skelton's question to Agar about "Doing his hair for the game"... Curious thing to bring up totally out of the blue. I get that she was trying to be funny, but totally missed the mark, and it looked like it took Agar by surprise too.

I thought the coverage was brilliant, loved all the presenters. They were funny, explained the rules and things that were happening etc genuinely enjoyed it. I thought Amor was good aswell and i didn't have to sit and try to decipher what he was saying like JJB on Sky.

JJB on sky though…..oh Lord.

Yeah JJB was dreadful the other night. Couldn't understand a word he was saying. What a turn off that would be for any new viewers watching on Sky.
Bill Authur is also terrible as their main commentator. He constantly gets players names wrong. Or fails to catch up with play as somebody is making a break down field and there is a pause before he works out who is running with the ball. During the Wigan game, he commented on the scoreline at the Cas - Salford game and said it's not going well for new coach Lee Radford. But failed to mention that it was going well for Salfords new coach Paul Rowley!

What the hell is he doing ANYWHERE NEAR a microphone, is beyond me. Seriously, you need an interpreter.
Pryce is poor. I watched the opening few minutes of the Championship game on Monday. Typical [idaft [/i Northerner.

I'll watch the C4 games when I can, subject to work/golf, but I'll avoid punditry..... I do anyway.

As I've said on another thread, I was impressed by Amor. He was very good. Didn't sound like your typical RL player, and avoided the usual clichés. A rare breed, a pro talking sense. Already the best co-commentator in RL history. To be fair, it was a low bar, to start with. I wonder who'll do it on Saturday, with Amor playing. Kevin Brown seems OKish

Just read that C4 coverage got an average audience of 531,000, peaking at 750,000 for the last few moments of the game.

Not sure what Sky get but that sounds good to me for a Saturday afternoon.

Just a word of warning to the many Sky critics.
Some need to be careful what they wish for.

Had it not been for Sky, RL would be nowhere near where it is today.
There is so much negativity towards Sky at times I dispair.
Sky has given me the opportunity to watch far more RL than I could ever have imagined since the inception of SuperLeague.
Decades, yes decades.

I dont agree with everything they do or with some of the presenters comments BUT thanks Sky for all you've done and are doing.

Not everyone who supports RL lives close to their team, making it impossible to see all but a few games each year.
Live RL is great so thank you again Sky, and welcome on board C4.

“ RL would be nowhere near where it is today.”. Where is it today? A small, struggling minority sport played mainly in small towns in the north of England. With a 40% reduced TV deal, no magazine programmes and no promotion. Yeh thanks Sky.

And where do you think it would gave been without Sky?
Sky have pumped in millions year after year and kept many clubs afloat.

There was no live TV coverage - except for BBC and the CC (whose coverage is also criticized regularly).
The BBC highlights show uses Sky coverage.

Yes - thanks Sky.

Might be a bit much to ask him to commentate and play at the same time.

The BBC Super League Show does include highlights of the SKY games, but it shows all the other games that SKY hadn`t covered too, so they could simply show the rest without SKY`s input,

Apparently the average TV audience for yesterdays game was 0.5 million with 0.75 million watching the end of the game. Those seem like very good figures to me and combined with a refreshing presentation team we seem to have got off to a flying start to attract and bring in a new audience.

Quote ="Winslade's Offload"Apparently the average TV audience for yesterdays game was 0.5 million with 0.75 million watching the end of the game. Those seem like very good figures to me and combined with a refreshing presentation team we seem to have got off to a flying start to attract and bring in a new audience.'" Hills is spreading the gospel too:- https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... y-23017272

Quote ="Winslade's Offload"Apparently the average TV audience for yesterdays game was 0.5 million with 0.75 million watching the end of the game. Those seem like very good figures to me and combined with a refreshing presentation team we seem to have got off to a flying start to attract and bring in a new audience.'" Hills is spreading the gospel too:- https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... y-23017272

if he was miked up it would certainly provide a different aspect to the commentary although you can imagine the flood of apologies for the general language overheard

I'm interested to know how this matches up with Sky's figures over the matches in round one.

Quote ="MorePlaymakersNeeded"I'm interested to know how this matches up with Sky's figures over the matches in round one.'" The average figure per game last season was 150K but I have no yet found any data for '22 yet. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... orts-2021/

Quote ="MorePlaymakersNeeded"I'm interested to know how this matches up with Sky's figures over the matches in round one.'" The average figure per game last season was 150K but I have no yet found any data for '22 yet. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... orts-2021/

Quote ="Boss Hog"Hills is spreading the gospel too:- https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... y-23017272'" It would make a nice change if Hill's brought along a celebrity mate, who had never watched a game, and was added to the half time pundit team. A newcomers view would be good to hear, as to what they liked and disliked about the game.

Quote ="Boss Hog"Hills is spreading the gospel too:- https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... y-23017272'" It would make a nice change if Hill's brought along a celebrity mate, who had never watched a game, and was added to the half time pundit team. A newcomers view would be good to hear, as to what they liked and disliked about the game.

Not quite the same but Steph McGovern was at the game on Saturday

Prop or second row?

I think I'd like to see Richard Ayoade making sarcastic passive aggressive critique of certain players.

Quote ="Winslade's Offload"The average figure per game last season was 150K but I have no yet found any data for '22 yet. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... orts-2021/'" Thanks Winslade, that puts C4's figures into context of being very good.

Quote ="Winslade's Offload"The average figure per game last season was 150K but I have no yet found any data for '22 yet. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... orts-2021/'" Thanks Winslade, that puts C4's figures into context of being very good.

To coin a phrase from travel man, he would get the opportunity to ask "Adam, why have you brought me here?".

I wonder how or if they calculate pub/ club viewers?
I should imagine that Sky has more viewers in this category than C4