you will be struggling for tv coverage on the BBC but premier sports have it all, and they do a really good job.



cheap enough and plenty of offers going around to get it on sky/virgin.

It's free on Virginmedia during the World Cup

I think overall coverage is good ,what annoys me is the constant shouting by the refs HOLD HOLD/SURRENDER ECT ECT

every tackle do we have to hear them shouting like that its so annoying.

Hey folks



I missed the first week of the RLWC as I was dragging a bunch of kids round the USA. Back now though, and have watched the England v Aus game. But is there a highlights catch-up programme anywhere on Premier/SKY/BBC which I can watch to get the main bits of all the other games ?

good thing with the premier coverage and the commentary unlike Eddie and Stevo (with the help of Cummings) they are doing exactly what they are paid to do, provide commentary on the game rather than slagging off the officials with nearly every decision.

Only downer is the number of camera angles!

Overall its been excellent so far

Same cant be said of Ray French!!!

There is a weekly highlights show on BBC on Sunday nights just before midnight. The first one should be on BBC i-player now. There are also videos of game highlights on the BBC Sport RL website as well as team profile pieces etc.

Premier Sports have all the games on catch-up online

Thought the BBC TV commentary for England Ireland was terrible today, cliché ridden, patronising - second half I turned the sound off and put the radio commentary on! Must be Chapman's influence as I usually do the same for (round ball) football but have never felt the need for Rugby League.

I was tempted to start a new thread discussing TV coverage until I discovered this one.



I would like to know how people feel the attendances of the games would have been affected, if at all, if the tournament [uhad[/u been broadcast by a free-to-air channel (such as across the BBC television network or even the ITV platform) rather than as it has been by a limited viewing audience channel such as Premier Sports with only the England games live on the BBC?



Do you feel that more people would have stayed at home to watch matches on the TV rather than attending in person, or is it purely the fact that well attended RL matches would have been watched by a potentially larger audience across a free-to-air TV channel?



Would people really have switched across to BBC4 (or ITV3) to tune in to watch Tonga vs Cook Islands live? Or have the BBC got it right by choosing to just show the England games as they are the ones that generate more interest to the not-so-die-hard-RL- fans?



Also, speaking ‘media’ broadly, it also spoke volumes that of the two English Rugby Teams that were in action over the last weekend, it was the Union boys’ victory over Australia that was reported on more than the excellent performance of the League boys who competed in a WORLD CUP tournament in front of a sell out John Smith’s Stadium.

Some of the best games have been group c d and only seen on premier, its a real shame I have been asked by lots of folk where they can watch it and most of them have not even heard of premier.

poor decision by the rfl, a bigger selection of the games should have been offered to free to view

Whilst channel flicking, I paused on the half-time of the Wales-Tonga RU game and nearly fell off my chair when they ran a promo for our World Cup. Sleazeball Inverdale did the talk-over, too! I imagine he did so through gritted teeth, but fantastic to see the Beeb promoting RL in the midst of other sports for a change.

Well I'll go t'th foot of our stairs! Hope someone puts that on Youtube, would love to see Mr Smooth having to say something nice about League!