Spare a thought for Championship clubs whose players work during the day and have to play Thursday nights with no money from the tv contract to offset reduced gates.



Hudds have few fans, that's a fact, even after cheap entry deals and all Davy's money propping them up. It must be worrying for him when so few turn up for such a vital game for both clubs.



SL isn't working well enough to be a closed shop.

SKY do not give one hoot about the size of the crowd, every SKY Monday crowd will be down on the same fixture last year between the clubs,its a shame as on tv it looks like our game is dying on its feet.Im worried about the size of the crowd at Widnes in a couple of weeks when they play Cas could be below 4k.

Thats bang on, Sky are not interested in RL. They are only interested in SKY and having something to show to folk sat at home, or in the pub on a Monday night.

Of course as a sport we enjoy the cash that they give to us but we are no longer masters of our own destiny, we dance to Mr Murdoch's tune

I think Monday night sky games will effect crowds to be honest.So no big deal, and i think Huddersfield will lose a few fans due to performances recently.

Hudds must have a serious PR problem in the town. Big population, good team, good stadium. Desperate crowds really.

Do clubs get a extra payment for having a monday night home game?

And you're complaint is that they've chosen RL to fill what is a high profile time slot on their schedules?

No, we're not masters of our own destiny because we are a regional sport and any additional exposure we get is a GOOD thing.



Monday night football is one of Sky's big crowd pullers. As such, there's good advertising revenue to be made. Between May and Aug, Sky have a gap there due to no football. So the fact they picked RL to go into that slot suggests that, far from Sky NOT being interested in RL, they feel that RL will attract a good number of viewers to keep that Monday night slot profitable.



So here's the thing, if we as a sport are helping Sky make more money, when the contracts come up for renewal next time the sport has an additional bargaining chip to play because the only way the sport will grow is for there to be an increase in the money invested in the game.



And to get back on topic Huddersfield have terrible crowds blah blah blah. It's a disgrace blah, blah, blah.

slightly off subect



Im fairly sure its not been purposly planed like this but



With England football On FRiday night and this being the normal SL spot for 2 or 3 games a week (at least the big telly game )



Its seems well lets say a lucky stroke with it been the Exiles game this week on Sky on Saturday as I do feel more crowds other than just a Hudds - HKR game on a monday would be effected

Actually I think it probably has... people suppose the RFL are a blundering bunch of incompetents but they're really not.

Indeed. When a rugby game clashes with a big soccer game, we get the, 'Why oh why have Red Hall done this?' brigade complaining of incompetence, but when they quite clearly avoid a clash it's because of some sort of accident.

The point is that SKY dont care about clubs getting low crowds at games, as long as they have something to show on their sports channel.

Poor ko times are something we have to put up with, to keep our paymasters happy.

8pm on a Monday night is not a poor kick-off time.



Midweek games were much more common during the 'good old days'.



I can understand Hull KR fans not bothering, no excuses for Huddersfield.