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Quote ="Saddened!"Hull v Warrington has top quality players in it. It also has the potential to be a close game. There will be a 14,000+ crowd no doubt, which presents a good image for the sport.
Contrast to 5,000 at the Stobart with one end completely empty and an amateurish game between two no hopers.
Having the trash teams on SKY is just a bad idea, which pollutes public perception of the sport. We should get the big games, the big crowds and the entertaining games on SKY in order to raise the profile of the ">sport.'"
You don't know your history of Super League that well either do you?
Widnes got a crowd of 5,000 or less on something like 4 occasions in Super League. There will be about 7-8,000 in weather permitting.
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Quote ="Saddened!"Hull v Warrington has top quality players in it. It also has the potential to be a close game. There will be a 14,000+ crowd no doubt, which presents a good image for the sport.
Contrast to 5,000 at the Stobart with one end completely empty and an amateurish game between two no hopers.
Having the trash teams on SKY is just a bad idea, which pollutes public perception of the sport. We should get the big games, the big crowds and the entertaining games on SKY in order to raise the profile of the ">sport.'"
You don't know your history of Super League that well either do you?
Widnes got a crowd of 5,000 or less on something like 4 occasions in Super League. There will be about 7-8,000 in weather permitting.
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SL should have fixed the fixtures for wk1 so the season starts with a bang.
Widnes v Warrington
Hull v Leeds
should be the games for the opening weekend of Sky imo.
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The average audience for the opening televised fixture on Sky Sports 1 last Friday, Widnes Vikings v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, was higher than any other opening weekend televised game in the Super League era and was 75 per cent up on the average weekly audience in 2011.
Quote ="morleys_deckchair"No offence to the 4 clubs playing... But that's a ridiculous opening set of fixtures for sky to ">show.'"
Quote ="Standee"the first half of the season fixtures that Sky have chosen are garbage, my subscription is getting cancelled tonight.
as for Widnes and Salford starting the season, a total ">joke.'"
Quote ="Saddened!"Hull v Warrington has top quality players in it. It also has the potential to be a close game. There will be a 14,000+ crowd no doubt, which presents a good image for the sport.
Contrast to 5,000 at the Stobart with one end completely empty and an amateurish game between two no hopers.
Having the trash teams on SKY is just a bad idea, which pollutes public perception of the sport. We should get the big games, the big crowds and the entertaining games on SKY in order to raise the profile of the ">sport.'"
Well done to our resident pundits
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The average audience for the opening televised fixture on Sky Sports 1 last Friday, Widnes Vikings v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, was higher than any other opening weekend televised game in the Super League era and was 75 per cent up on the average weekly audience in 2011.
Quote ="morleys_deckchair"No offence to the 4 clubs playing... But that's a ridiculous opening set of fixtures for sky to ">show.'"
Quote ="Standee"the first half of the season fixtures that Sky have chosen are garbage, my subscription is getting cancelled tonight.
as for Widnes and Salford starting the season, a total ">joke.'"
Quote ="Saddened!"Hull v Warrington has top quality players in it. It also has the potential to be a close game. There will be a 14,000+ crowd no doubt, which presents a good image for the sport.
Contrast to 5,000 at the Stobart with one end completely empty and an amateurish game between two no hopers.
Having the trash teams on SKY is just a bad idea, which pollutes public perception of the sport. We should get the big games, the big crowds and the entertaining games on SKY in order to raise the profile of the ">sport.'"
Well done to our resident pundits
icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" /> .
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Quote ="jarvis12345"Dont know if anyone has suggested this but wouldnt it be a good idea to have the magic weekend fixtures on the opening day as regular season fixtures.
Wigan v Saints 24k
Hull Fc v Hull Kr 24k
Bulls v Leeds 20k
Wire v Widnes 15k
Salford v Hudds 12k
Cas v Wakey 10k
Catalan v London 10k
That works out at an average of over 16k, would set a new weekly record attendance in SL and would certainly get the season of to a flyer. I think all estimated attendances are realistic as its the opening weekend. Unsure of the Salford game but hopefully loads will turn up as its the first game at the ground. It would get some much needed publicity before the press start creaming themselves about the 6 Nations.
At the very Least I would have 2 derby matches on the opening weekend probably Wigan v Saints or Leeds v Bulls and the Hull Derby. Gotta get people interested from the word go and I dont think Widnes v Wakey will do that. Widnes v Wire would do ">though.'"
Where do you get 12k watching Salford v Shudds and you might struggle to get 24k into the halliwell jones, also Bulls Rhinos more like 13-14k
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Quote ="jarvis12345"Dont know if anyone has suggested this but wouldnt it be a good idea to have the magic weekend fixtures on the opening day as regular season fixtures.
Wigan v Saints 24k
Hull Fc v Hull Kr 24k
Bulls v Leeds 20k
Wire v Widnes 15k
Salford v Hudds 12k
Cas v Wakey 10k
Catalan v London 10k
That works out at an average of over 16k, would set a new weekly record attendance in SL and would certainly get the season of to a flyer. I think all estimated attendances are realistic as its the opening weekend. Unsure of the Salford game but hopefully loads will turn up as its the first game at the ground. It would get some much needed publicity before the press start creaming themselves about the 6 Nations.
At the very Least I would have 2 derby matches on the opening weekend probably Wigan v Saints or Leeds v Bulls and the Hull Derby. Gotta get people interested from the word go and I dont think Widnes v Wakey will do that. Widnes v Wire would do ">though.'"
Where do you get 12k watching Salford v Shudds and you might struggle to get 24k into the halliwell jones, also Bulls Rhinos more like 13-14k
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Quote ="The Devil's Advocate"The average audience for the opening televised fixture on Sky Sports 1 last Friday, Widnes Vikings v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, was higher than any other opening weekend televised game in the Super League era and was 75 per cent up on the average weekly audience in 2011.
Well done to our resident pundits
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Well well 75% you say looks like the tv viewing public does not agree with the class clown standee.
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Quote ="The Devil's Advocate"The average audience for the opening televised fixture on Sky Sports 1 last Friday, Widnes Vikings v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, was higher than any other opening weekend televised game in the Super League era and was 75 per cent up on the average weekly audience in 2011.
Well done to our resident pundits
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Well well 75% you say looks like the tv viewing public does not agree with the class clown standee.
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Guaranteed Widnes and Wakey won't get a pat on the back for this icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />
I'd expect something along the lines of... "It could have been anyone and they would have got those figures."
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"If it had been any of the 'MASSIVE' clubs on SKY then it would have been 200% increase."
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"People only watched it because of the iPitch"
Or "It was cold on Friday night so more people stayed in!"
Standee sure told Sky icon_cool.gif" alt="icon_cool.gif" title="Cool" />
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Guaranteed Widnes and Wakey won't get a pat on the back for this icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />
I'd expect something along the lines of... "It could have been anyone and they would have got those figures."
Or
"If it had been any of the 'MASSIVE' clubs on SKY then it would have been 200% increase."
Or
"People only watched it because of the iPitch"
Or "It was cold on Friday night so more people stayed in!"
Standee sure told Sky icon_cool.gif" alt="icon_cool.gif" title="Cool" />
FWIW Well done Widnes and Wakefield.
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