: Fri May 01, 2009 5:11 pm  

lpage wrote:

Thanks for the numbers.

In general, where is it possible to get these audience numbers?

.Sky Sports 1
w/e 19 Apr 2009
000's
1 LIVE FORD FOOTBALL SPECIAL-MATCH (Sun 13:00) 733
2 GILLETTE SOCCER SATURDAY (Sat 15:00) 350
3 LIVE FOOTBALL LEAGUE (Mon 12:00) 341
4 LIVE FOOTBALL LEAGUE (Mon 19:30) 298
5 GILLETTE SOCCER SPECIAL (Mon 14:30) 209
6 LIVE SUPER LEAGUE (Sat 17:55) 198
7 LIVE PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS (Thu 19:00) 181
8 SOCCER AM (Sat 09:00) 179
9 LIVE SUPER LEAGUE (Fri 19:30) 154
10 LIVE PREMIERSHIP RUGBY UNION (Sun 15:35) 152



All figures are from the barb website

AS THE ABOVE FIGURES SHOW WE ARE WAY AHAED OF UNION ON FIGURES,but only get a smaller contract

With football we are not that far off them but light year behind the contract deals

Do the rfl know what figures they get ?

Regarding union v league each to there own two different sports

: Fri May 01, 2009 10:10 pm  

Der Kaiser 1 wrote:

people who enjoy watching Union must accept watching crap slow sports as OK. You get the odd Union game OK to watch but most of the time the skills and vision on show are less than in an under 10s League youth game!

Union has got away with lieing about most things it does for over 100 hundred years. It also has the old boys connection which push/force it on to people no matter what-Look at the BBC and media in general despite crowds often being less than League. Union is only strong at the International level and where it makes its money from. Even then theres about 8 Nations who are of similar standard then the standards drop steeply!

Many Union people know very little about the game and how to play it, its history etc yet its a bandwagon which brings in sadly millions to a sport boring as dish water which has a history of lieing, bribery and getting in to bed with dictators and bad regimes. Caucescu (Romania) Apartheid South Africa and Vichy France for example. Even today in Europe Union looks to stop people playing League in places like Greece, Serbia, Czech Republic etc.

Each to there own.
You sound like someone off the VT with that kind of tirade against Union

I'll just highlight one piece for you and say one name, R.Lewis - July 2008 BBC1 Look North West .

: Fri May 01, 2009 10:46 pm  

JENKY wrote:

Each to there own.
You sound like someone off the VT with that kind of tirade against Union

I'll just highlight one piece for you and say one name, R.Lewis - July 2008 BBC1 Look North West .

Union has lied about paying people for well over a century and thus not paying Tax etc. It has lied and bribed town officials in France to stop people playing Rugby League. People still try and do this in Europe today. Union was in bed with Apartheid in South Africa, Caucescu in Romania and the Vichy Government.
Rugby Union rubbed out of its records people who trained with Rugby League Clubs. It is a sport still heavily reliant on its class structure. I hate Union due to the way it has consistantly tried to stop people playing my sport. If you go on Planet Rugby and some other Union sites you will see the way many Unionites look down on League and refer us to Mungoes and Apemen. Sorry but I have no respect for Rugby Union and hope it suffers in this credit Crunch time.

: Sat May 02, 2009 6:41 am  

Der Kaiser 1 wrote:

Union has lied about paying people for well over a century and thus not paying Tax etc. It has lied and bribed town officials in France to stop people playing Rugby League. People still try and do this in Europe today. Union was in bed with Apartheid in South Africa, Caucescu in Romania and the Vichy Government.
Rugby Union rubbed out of its records people who trained with Rugby League Clubs. It is a sport still heavily reliant on its class structure. I hate Union due to the way it has consistantly tried to stop people playing my sport. If you go on Planet Rugby and some other Union sites you will see the way many Unionites look down on League and refer us to Mungoes and Apemen. Sorry but I have no respect for Rugby Union and hope it suffers in this credit Crunch time.

could not agree more...what union did to french rugby league after the war was nothing short of criminal.

have the english union ever apologised f0r over 100 years of discrimination.

until that happens i will never forgive, and yes i am jealous and bitter about unions infrastructure and crowd popularity at international level.
that is because the class structure is alive and well in the uk.

if you sent 15 pigs onto twickers wearing an england shirt, called it an international they would still get a full house

: Sat May 02, 2009 8:30 am  

All this discrimination and perpetuation of the class structure will be sorted when we have a change of government!

: Sat May 02, 2009 10:55 am  

So the RFL have learned from RU how to lie.

: Sat May 02, 2009 9:53 pm  

In between the Millennium Magic I switched to the RU. The game was Munster v Leinster. There was an incredible world-record 82,208 attendance for a club match. This shows that RL should not underestimate the draw of the game no matter how much us RL fans find in boring to watch.

However in the few minutes I watched the nastier side of the game was on show with a close up of eye gouging, something thankfully not in our game.

: Sat May 02, 2009 11:58 pm  

JENKY wrote:

You sound like someone off the VT with that kind of tirade against Union

My eyes were opened, and not in a good way, when I moved down to London to work in the '80s. I got involved with Ealing ARLFC, now no more, and a lot of our players also played union. They lived in fear of someone from their club finding out they'd played League, because that would get them banned sine die. They could have been professional footballers, professional cricketers, professional golfers, or whatever, but amateur Rugby League players, never. Things have changed now, but that experience of irrational discrimination has coloured my own POV for good, I think. Still, if you are going to have a prejudice, it's a pretty harmlesss one.

: Tue May 05, 2009 10:51 pm  

Jasper C Debussy wrote:

However in the few minutes I watched the nastier side of the game was on show with a close up of eye gouging, something thankfully not in our game.

Apparently John Hopoate is coming to the UK looking for a contract. Nobody's paying him yet, he's going to work his own passage.

: Tue May 05, 2009 10:56 pm  

Wembley71 wrote:

Apparently John Hopoate is coming to the UK looking for a contract. Nobody's paying him yet, he's going to work his own passage.

He will be putting the 'feelers' out then?