Exactly. Friendly wendyball featuring assorted millionaire adulterers: who needs it/



Really, ABP, if you can't see whay it's a good thing to let the nation, however few watch, know that rugby at Oxbridge does not just mean 'union' then you're blind.

as stated above, its the CC this weekend, therefore sky havent anything to show tonight. im glad they are using the allocated time to show rugby league, rather than giving the spot elsewhere. unless of course you think 2 hours of tv time on one of 4 dedicated sports channels is wasted on rugby league.

I'm looking forward to it, know a fair few cambridge lads so will be shouting for them.



Why anyone would have a problem with more rl being shown on tv baffles me.

It isn't more Rugby League. It's a time slot that's usually occupied by two pro/semi pro Rugby League sides trying acheive something in their respective league. Tonight it's been replaced with two, low standard university sides in a one off game where the teams' players mainly come from Union backgrounds, hyped up because it's Oxford and Cambridge.



I just don't see the excitement. I can't see why so many people are out raged

It's Oxford V Cambridge. Supposedly learned men knocking lumps out of each other. Nothing wrong with that. Put it on the telly. Well done.

I don't know if the players mostly come from union backgrounds.



I have a few mates who are at cambridge and 3 of them played rugby league up until last year. And thats just from my college. I know at least one of them tried for the Uni team last year and didn't get picked so presumably they have more than enough League players to get a team together without having to try and convert union lads.

Yes, but all those semi-pro RL sides are playing in the Challenge Cup this weekend, which Sky doesn't have the rights to show. So they have to show something else. The tv ratings for this game were slightly higher than many of the championship games last year, so presumably Sky are happy to keep showing it. There are several hundred thousand Oxbridge graduates out there who might take an interest in this game. My father-in-law was an Oxford Don. The only other RL games he'd make an effort to watch would be internationals.

Its a source of constant amusement and amazement to me,watching people ask questions, and then when they don't get the reply they expect..... ignore the replies!



In short:

There is no Championship game for Sky to show, so rather than show a game from last week, they pick up a game which - while being totally meaningless to a lot of us - shows that

1) RL is not an oiks game

2) Is more entertaining than 'other' sports traditionally associated with Oxbridge.





The alternative of course is that they could have given the space over to enduro space hopper racing or something else, which would have set the barking off in style on here....

Wigan have managed a run of 4 unbeaten games. Their fans are now too good for SL and certainly too good for something as nondescript as the 2 most famous universities in the country (maybe the world), going head to head at rugby league.

Try crowds of 50k to 100k and you'd be closer to the mark. There are 11 college football stadiums with a greater capacity than the largest NFL stadium. College football does get bigger crowds and I suspect the TV viewing figures aren't that different. College football is massive in the States and although it's played by young men, the standard is not even remotely amateurish. These kids can play. In fact, I find college football more entertaining than the NFL because it's more open and free flowing. Oh, and the games are in no way meaningless to the players, the colleges, the fans (and multitude of people betting on them

). There's a reason that College football coaches get paid as much as if not more than NFL coaches. They are moulding the future of the game and attracting a load of money to the colleges.



Sorry to go off on a tangent but it's comparing apples to oranges.

Leeds Trinity Titans would put 40+ on either of these two teams...

Oxford, he's the club president too. Mind he has been known to dabble in union in the past