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Just put Wigan vs Wire on every week...

[Bilko]

Not so much Wigan v Widnes but this is the problem with Sky having to fill quotas in a 14 team league. I.E reduced quality. They HAVE to visit every ground in Super League twice a season, that takes up half the picks every season - most of which in fairness are normally seen off by the middle of May. However they've only been to Widnes once , hence the visit next week for a nothing match!

Bilko wrote:

Not so much Wigan v Widnes but this is the problem with Sky having to fill quotas in a 14 team league. I.E reduced quality. They HAVE to visit every ground in Super League twice a season, that takes up half the picks every season - most of which in fairness are normally seen off by the middle of May. However they've only been to Widnes once , hence the visit next week for a nothing match!

Nonsense, they've already visited Wigan several times, so didn't need to fill any quota. It was just a really poor choice of game and a really poor game.

No offence to Widnes but they were never going to get close to a Wigan team with Tomkins and O Loughlin in it.

I understand that Sky have to go to every ground a certain amount of times a year but yesterday was always going to be a tough watch for any supporter. I expected it to be one way traffic and it was.

Bilko is right about the reduced quality of the league with so many teams and Saddened come on they will always want to show the better team and the more recognised teams as it will get the viewers in. However much you and i may dislike them they are a big draw for viewers.

[Chris Dalton]

Saddened! wrote:

Nonsense, they've already visited Wigan several times, so didn't need to fill any quota. It was just a really poor choice of game and a really poor game.

And err...which must see fixture missed out on television this week? There were only two close games the whole round, one was on television and the other was another "nothing game".

Chris Dalton wrote:

And err...which must see fixture missed out on television this week? There were only two close games the whole round, one was on television and the other was another "nothing game".

The nothing games can still be entertaining at least, albeit with nothing at stake. Widnes Cas next week is a nothing game but its a game the neutral can get into, widnes underdogs, home team, sky commentary praying for a widnes win to take them off the bottom etc, will be a little more entertaining then last nights joke of a selected game. Bradford Wakey or even Wire v Hull (close for an hour) would've been better games.

[Chris Dalton]

Towns88 wrote:

The nothing games can still be entertaining at least, albeit with nothing at stake. Widnes Cas next week is a nothing game but its a game the neutral can get into, widnes underdogs, home team, sky commentary praying for a widnes win to take them off the bottom etc, will be a little more entertaining then last nights joke of a selected game. Bradford Wakey or even Wire v Hull (close for an hour) would've been better games.

But by no means essential viewing and certainly not worth coming on here and moaning about missing.

If they'd shown them there'd still be moaning that they didn't show something else.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

J20 wrote:

Just put Wigan vs Wire on every week...

nah, clarke would implode

clarke:this wigan side eddeh, are so much better , what they do, betteh than any other team in the league, is XYZ.

carney: so why are warrington beating them, again, Phil?

This is where you can't win.

Show Widnes at Wigan and its a crap one sided affair. Show Widnes vs Cas and it's going to be 'lesser quality and poor to watch' elitist attitudes at its best.

SL has a tv deal to show the game not just the top 3/4 sides who themselves this year have mauled each other a few times and also got turned over by lower sides too.

two tens anyone, would be some great games at the top of the second tier and fewer garbage ones in the top