Judder Man wrote:
Well they certainly are not interested in promoting our game for both parties. If SKY insist on showing basement games from now on with poor standards of play then could SKY be devaluing our next TV deal.
For years we've had fans on this board arguing that we need P&R because "jepoardy" pulls in the viewers. That mentality leads to decisions like this.
In general its also those same fans who argue that we need loop fixtures for clubs to survive and again, it leads to decisions like this. Why would Sky be interested in the 19th (and a pretty inconsequential) meeting between these teams in five years?
The Wigan-Saints is of very little consequence in the scheme of the season. St Helens will probably win the game, they will almost certainly win the LLS and the top seed in the play-offs. Nothing that Wigan do is likely to put that in any real jepoardy and they themselves will probably finish in 3rd-5th irrespective of the result on Friday. The result at Headingley has much greater consequence for both teams and generates a much more interesting story for Sky to tell.
If we work on the basis that forums like this are representative of the fan base, and that the prevailing view is that we need the 'jepoardy' of P&R, then Sky are giving the fans exactly what they've asked for.
Sky aren't stupid. They know which games put bums on sofas and I suspect that the only people with any real problem with this are all currently sat within a ten mile radius of Billinge Lump. That's how significant it is.
