As far as Sky goes the GF was the 58th most popular not including football.The 4 nations was 92nd! There is so little live football on terrestial so it would look worse!

If you read the report it says its the SL clubs may vote to cut the comp to 12 teams not the RL ,and from what Rovers said at there fans forum they are one of the teams who want the cut ,the RL will decide who gets the chop and who comes up , based on what i said above Bud

That was Newton and Morgan, presenting the POV of a player and a coach, not club's position. Tbf, I'd quite like to work 4 days a week instead of 5, especially if nobody is mentioning a pro-rata pay cut. The quality of my work would increase too, I'm sure, so I understand where they are coming from.

Sorry, I'm not having that half baked excuse. If Clint Newton said it at the forum, it must the the official position of the club.

Well this thread has baffled me. 450,000 are very good viewing figures.

Superleague gets around 100,000 per match, some matches getting over 250,000. Football matches get around 300,000 to 700,000.

I picked a week at random for Sky Sports 2. Here are the results;

Figures are in thousands. So SL got 150,000 and 129,000 that week respectively while RU got 116,000.

1. LIVE ROTTERDAM TENNIS (Sun 13:00) 175
2 LIVE SUPER LEAGUE (Fri 19:30) 150
3 LIVE SUPER LEAGUE (Sat 19:30) 129
4 LIVE PREMIERSHIP RUGBY UNION (Sun 16:30) 116

These are the results over on Sky Sports 1 the same day

1 INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL LIVE (Tue 19:30) 542
2 LIVE FOOTBALL LEAGUE (Mon 19:30) 413

Whats so bad about those viewing figures? I think a sport like Rugby League beating Rugby Union, a much more widely known sport around the UK and Ireland is frankly a fantasic achivement.

These were the figures the week after

1 LIVE SUPER LEAGUE (Fri 19:33) 262
2 LIVE FOOTBALL (Tue 19:30) 156
3 LIVE PREMIERSHIP RUGBY UNION (Sat 14:30) 140
4 LIVE SCOTTISH CUP FOOTBALL (Wed 19:30) 126
5 LIVE PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS (Thu 19:00) 125
6 LIVE SUPER LEAGUE (Sat 17:57) 114
7 LIVE A1 GRAND PRIX (Sun 11:31) 67
8 EUROPEAN TOUR GOLF (Sun 14:30) 56
9 RUGBY UNION (Sat 20:00) 52
10 BIG LEAGUE WEEKEND 1 (Fri 22:03)

i wouldn't read too much into these 'figures'.football,cricket will always get bigger viewers,especially when we are up against the premier league,and the ashes series etc.the viewing figures are excellent,and are on a par with union,which is meant to be a national sport compared to our 'm62' game!sky will have no reservations at all when it comes to renewing their contract with the rfl.