Re: Premier Sports Offer : Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:58 pm  

I am quite amazed at the apathy people have to watching the Australian NRL. It is the premier RL competion in the world, miles ahead of Super League. I will be going with Premier but not bother with Skysports. I suppose it's whatever takes your fancy.

[Jemmo]

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:17 pm  

Clubs outside of Super League spent years campaigning to be able to break away from the Sky deal and to be able to negotiate their own, now we have got that we're not happy!

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:08 pm  

Premier Sports aren't exactly going to set the rugby world on fire with their "vast" viewing figures.

It seems like a backward step unless there are things that we don't know about.

Did Sky offer to cover games but the Championship chose Premier Sports because they thought they were a better option, or were Premier Sports the only company interested in covering us?

Does anyone have any inside info on this?

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:37 pm  

Jemmo wrote:

Clubs outside of Super League spent years campaigning to be able to break away from the Sky deal and to be able to negotiate their own, now we have got that we're not happy!

Just one fine point if I may make so bold.
Clubs are not individual viewers are they.
If I want to view this as an individual as well as have my Superleague, I have to pay more.
I don't see that as progress from a purely selfish point of view.
So I won't pay more and that is one less viewer.

If I was a NRL fan (yawn), I would think it a cracking deal, but I'm not, so I don't.

If the clubs (going back to what you referred to) get more revenue from this then fine, good luck to them.
But I can't see many ragging in Sky and the Superleague for this package, nor do I see many paying dual subscriptions.
Some will of course, we will see how successful it will be.
My opinion is it will appeal to a niche market only. But there are many NRL fans out there, so who knows.

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:50 am  

i watched nrl when premier was part of sky package but havent watched it now for nearly 2 years i think it got more predictable than sl ok there was some big hits but it was more about defence and forcing other team to make mistakes than creative flare which is why i wasnt bothered apart from state of origin which is prob the best compitition in rugby! but thats shown on sky so ill stick with sky

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:02 am  

Come to my senses £700 plus is too much for Sky , the money will go towards holidays instead . No Premier Sports for me either . Will have to make do with live rugby at a stadium !

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:29 pm  

If the media reports are true the Rugby Football League will not receive any payments from Premier Sports for the whole of the three year deal.

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:45 am  

weighman wrote:

Come to my senses £700 plus is too much for Sky , the money will go towards holidays instead . No Premier Sports for me either . Will have to make do with live rugby at a stadium !

I think that this is perhaps the best post of all.
I watch Sky 10% of the time (and only for sport) and TV licence stuff for 90% of the time.
For that privilege I pay Sky five times as much money as I do the TV licence channels.
I must be mad ... please do not confirm this.
I too need to stop this madness and put that money towards holidays instead.
I am not that bothered about Superleague.
I will discuss this with my good lady tomorrow.
Although to be fair, I think that the Sports package amounts to about £300 a year. Still that's a sizeable amount.

Do it weighman, I will do it too.
At least I will cancel the TV part of my package.
Times are hard and Sky is a luxury.

The only team that matters is the Dons, and we have season tickets.
COYD

[Wanderer]

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Sun Nov 20, 2011 1:31 am  

Stand-Offish wrote:

The only team that matters is the Dons

In RL terms, YES it is

Re: Premier Sports Offer : Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:35 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote:

I think that this is perhaps the best post of all.
I watch Sky 10% of the time (and only for sport) and TV licence stuff for 90% of the time.
For that privilege I pay Sky five times as much money as I do the TV licence channels.
I must be mad ... please do not confirm this.
I too need to stop this madness and put that money towards holidays instead.
I am not that bothered about Superleague.
I will discuss this with my good lady tomorrow.
Although to be fair, I think that the Sports package amounts to about £300 a year. Still that's a sizeable amount.

Do it weighman, I will do it too.
At least I will cancel the TV part of my package.
Times are hard and Sky is a luxury.

The only team that matters is the Dons, and we have season tickets.
COYD

Do what I do and cancel when your contract is up. 18 months ago they gave me half price Sky Package including all Sky sports £21. This ran out at the end of Super League etc. They have given mw the same deal till January where I will pack in again. If they dont do it I will still pack the lot in.