Well if this is all they will provide then one is well within their rights to go online and seek other avenues to view the NRL.

Apart that is from within law where there is no such right. And so consequently the AUP where anyone who wished to test it will find themselves asserting their right to use other web sites.



That warning not specifically aimed at you, Boris, but I am sure anyone who it does applies to knows who they are.







Cannot see how that would apply. You cannot make an invitation to treat for something you do not have to offer. If anything protects Setanta is would be the contract which would no doubt allow them to change their offering.







They are a season and a bit early then as they do not lose any games until the 2010-2011 season.



Michael.

I'll be cancelling as well. Got a new Freeview box with three months at half-price, and thought "that's me sorted for the NRL and Origin games, but didn't realise that they don't start broadcasting on Freeview until mid-day.

They said that?Muppets.Didn't realise the Magners League now kicked off same time as the NRL!



Very pi$$ed about this especially as I'm paying the normal £12.99 and an extra £2.99 for multi-room so just fired off an email to them and will be cancelling if they don't change things soon-doubt they'll respond though.Talk about being ripped off.

i cant beleive this, and their excuse seems lame given that the magners league doesnt remotely clash with the NRL and during the day they mostly show reruns of football or the stupid football review shows. I wont be cancelling my subscription because i watch college footy and ice hockey but i will be emailing them about this.

Let's hope so. Then perhaps we can get NRL back on Sky, which I DO subscribe to.

i have emailed in to tell them I would like to know why they aren't broadcasting as much NRL as they say they will.



Just realised looking through my TV guide, that Setanta Golf (OK I think its only available to satelite viewers) shows mostly re runs of Golf tournaments, not knocking Golf in any way, but could they not do what they do with the american sports and broadcast the fixtures that clash on the spare channel?



I forgot to mention this while e-mailing them, but will wait for their response and go from their.

Is this true? So you can't watch the game on Saturday Morning?

If you do cancel setanta, then make sure you write to them to do so, I had murder with them when I tried to cancel at the end of last year.



And I will never grace their services ever again.

This is what makes me suspicious of their intentions in this matter. they havesetanta 2, setanta ireland which could also show them without affecting any live broadcasts.



Does anyone know if they are even going to show the other games on delayed broadcast?

yep. there was a big story about this on bbc radio 5. plenty of folk having big problems getting rid. they even advised listeners to go to the citizens advice.



letters written to setanta explaining why you're cancelling your subscription.

Not to pee on ya bonefire but the only person that does streaming of NRL is from the UK so you will still only get one game a week.

sad but true

Really? Not sure where you watch it.

just cancel your direct debit, should be enough for them to get the message that you wish to cancel the subscription.

I stopped paying Setanta by accident and only discovered when the channel stopped working. They then sent me a letter demanding payment, which I forgot about. Not that I was going to pay, mind, as it seemed they had been overcharging me so as we were even as far as I was concerned.



That was until the other week when they wrote to me again, only this time offering me a discount to re-subscribe. I assumed they must be used to people just cutting off payment as a way of leaving.



Michael.

Between Foxsports and Channel Nine you can watch all games live in Oz unless there are two games on at the same time in which case you get a choice which to watch.

Or Chan Nine who has two games on Friday nights shows the Qld games first in Qld and the interstate game second and vice a versa down South.



Beyond that and the continual replays all week you have the

Footy Show on Thursday and Sunday

Fox Rugby League show

Fox NRL Tactics

Toyota Cup

Barefoot League

2 x Super League games (one live)



More than enough even for an addict.

I assume they have the broadcast rights but pay per game so if they knock it down to 1 game then they save money. Otherwise what are they saving by not broadcasting? They don't do any production on them because they use the programmes as supplied by Nine or Fox and they show essentially at dead time in the early morning.

I don't subscribe to Setanta as I find their coverage embarrassing at times (Rugby and Football). If you were to ring them and say you were cancelling with immediate effect due to them cutting their coverage of NRL I reckon they'd offer it to you half price until normal service resumes.

thanks for the support guys...



as for coverage of the magners league, thats a crock because NRL programming (with current summer timings in Aus) is:

friday: 8:30am

saturday: 8:30am

Sunday: 3:30am

monday:8:30am



No other sport they show would surely clash, not to mention the fact that teleshopping is being shown at this time on a subscription channel!



It says that a response should take up to 5 days, will be interesting to see what they come back with. Last time I tried to cancell at the end of the NRL season I was offered half price until March.

Can't believe they have Teleshopping on next Friday! Email has been sent.

we have RL on every night on TV including :



mon - 5 hours

tuesday - 1/2 hour

wednesday - 1hour

thursday - 2hours

friday - 5 hours + replay

sat - 6 hours

sunday - 6 hours including a choice between SL on 9 and a live NRL game on fox at the same time

thanks Dally, as an ex-pat I am aware of how much RL is shown on television back home through fox, 9 and abc.



now, what is your point?

Invitation to treat is one of the most irritating concepts in Law I have come across. You can make an invitiation to treat for anything in the form of an advertisement and you don't have to actually offer it. Strange.

I just called to cancel my subscription and their customer services team has called me back. I gave them my reasons are cancelling and they try to persuade me to stay by telling me about their Magners league coverage.



When I told them I was a rugby league fan and not a fan of rugby union and that it was their coverage of Australian rugby league that attracted me to them they began telling me about their AFL coverage.



Eventually they offered me £9.99 a month. The only caveat to this was that my 12 month contract would restart tying me to them at that price. £9.99 a month is excellent value in the range of sports that Setanta show however I declined because of the 12 month tie in.



They very quickly offered me £6.50 per month for the next three months with no 12 month contract. That's a great deal and it allows me to reassess my subscription with them at the end of the three months