Gotcha wrote:
I would think the BBC see it no different to you. Have you seen what the alternatives are on Friday night TV? I would not be surprised at all to see a bigger TV audience watching a game on Friday evening, rather than Saturday afternoon, whether it is us V Saints, or Hull KR v Warrington. Hence why they are considering the better tie for the Friday evening, to see if they can get even more of an audience.
Yes I can see why they've tried it. When the key dates of the season were announced the semis were always booked for the 31st (Friday) and 1st (Saturday) so it's not something they've come up with last minute. Don't think they'll have even known then that the Community Shield football would be on the Sunday at the time they decided to do a Friday instead.
Having a CC semi on a Friday night might be a little different but Friday night RL is commonplace usually so shouldn't feel too weird. Probably because we are either at the rugby or watching rugby on Sky people forget that Friday night tv around that time is usually dire. IF they splash it across the stations in the build up and really promote it well they could do well viewer wise especially given the teams playing.
Probably will hit the attendance but that'll be of secondary concern to the tv people (yes unfortunately all sports have to cater to them) and it's not like the semis have been doing that impressive recently anyway for numbers.
