www.hullfc.com/article/32674/sup ... sky-sports I just hope this is an improved money deal a lot of clubs are struggling, the sport has been undervalued by sky for a long time when you consider what they are apparently paying for union, and how popular our sport is to sky's viewing, rugby league should be properly rewarded and covered hope this deal is a shot in the arm our game needs

www.hullfc.com/article/32674/sup ... sky-sports I just hope this is an improved money deal a lot of clubs are struggling, the sport has been undervalued by sky for a long time when you consider what they are apparently paying for union, and how popular our sport is to sky's viewing, rugby league should be properly rewarded and covered hope this deal is a shot in the arm our game needs

I like sky and all that, but they need a serious shake up when it comes to the commentary team. Eddie and Stevo are clueles. No one could care less about the pointless facts Clarkey dishes out. Would personally love a character like Vossy at the helm, the guys rugby league mad and I enjoyed the games over the world cup so much more when he was commentating! Just adds that passion and enthusiasm for the game.

could not agree more Eddie and Steveo had their day 6 years ago, full revamp in definite order more ex super league players involved like Carney he at least been a breath of fresh air , lets hope sky not got us on the cheap again though

200 million from 2016 to 2021. Current deal till 2016 worth 127. Not sure how it's cut though with championship being back on sky. 100 games a year

Catalan home games to be shown to .

That will be why they voted for the new structure then, they will have been promised a bit more of the cake from sky and it will not have an impact on there gates as the French do not get it from sky errmmm

I think Catalan abstained they were originally against the new structure but since seemed to have been persuaded to at least abstain, perhaps now we know why. They will be getting a bit more cake but the rest of Super League won't be getting much of a hike in their grant from the Sky money at all, as the lion share is to go to the Championship Clubs who it is rumoured will see their salary cap extended to £900,000. From a personal point of view tying ourselves to one company until 2021 is a worry when you consider what sort of players BT sports and Premier Sport might be by then, and the sort of commentators Sky seem to think are fitting for our great game, a shorter deal would have kept sky on their toes and left an opening for re-negotiation in the future.

What annoys me about sky is they pretend there promoting the game when in reality they do not want to pay what its worth to them in reflection to the viewing figures they receive, like you say the lack of a serious competitor is the real problem, disappointing if we and the other super league clubs have received little or no increase due to the fact most clubs apart from a couple are not self financed and are relying on a rich owner, the league should have at least left some scope to sell rights to other channels like the premier league. I have noticed an increase in good games now only on BT sport and I am left watching championship games on sky its a disgrace sky have lost the explicit right to broadcast the premier league but not dropped their price, in truth I only get it for the rugby but its a real cheek we should do the same, sell so many games to Premier or one of the main channels to raise more cash for clubs

This isn't true, even split 25 (all clubs in sl and sl2 get an even share plus the rfl) ways the clubs will still be getting 1.6million, which is the first time it is higher than the original deal.

The policy review states the top 2 clubs of the championship will get a half share each of a full super league share, with the rest getting a base of 600,000 (I believe I'll have to check) with add ons for final league position. This is vastly improved but still leaving a much bigger pot for super league clubs

Whilst a rough guess, I'd imagine the clubs should be getting around 2million a year from this deal. Considering bt paid 152million for union (a year less but European competition rights as well) the 200million deal we have seems very good indeed.

Gives the game stability but I do feel the RFL are lazy in accepting a long deal.

They now can sit on their laurels and leave Sky to do the marketing and chasing big partners.

Selfishly as a Hull resident who has to pay to get BT Sport, I'm glad that its staying with SKY so that I only have 1 bill to pay.

the next thing they need to do with the TV deals is push the BBC to show the Super League Show nationwide in a regular time slot (Sunday night at 11pm after MOTD2 seemed to work for the World Cup Highlights) we also need to get the BBC to return to showing 2 Challenge Cup games per round.

Well I bow to your better judgement I was just basing my comments on what I was told went on at yesterdays Super league Clubs meeting. We'll have to wait and see. But the Super league Clubs won't be getting £2m from Sky!