As far as im aware only the RU, Rowing and RL are televised in the Oxbridge contests.



Surely people can see the advantages of being in that category? The fact that given our history, geography and tradition the fact that there is an Oxbridge game is fantastic. For it to be televised is even better.



To compare its value to Dewsbury v Leigh is narrow minded at best, ignorance at worst.



Events like this have influence. Its for the same reason I would love to see a world sevens/9s series of some sort too.

Sky are showing it to fill the absence of lower league action caused by the Challenge Cup weekend. So I'm not seeing the argument in this thread at all.



Their is Thursday Night Co-Op league or Rail Cup action every week on Sky from next week until September 16th with the only exceptions being April 16th (Challenge Cup 4th Round) and July 15th (showing the Rail Cup final on the Sunday) - sol their is plenty to look forward to.



This Oxford v Cambridge match is not my cup of tea - but its better than nowt!

American Football ( NFL ) is structured so that pretty much all it's players go through college football to play at the top level. I'd say a handful of players over god knows how many years have made transition from SRL to Super league. By 18 they are already in a super league academy, and probably not going to Uni in that case.



If RL had a draft system from Uni's i'm sure we'd see more interest in it. I think SRL is played at a quick pace. Skill level isn't too great. A lot of union converts, but that's not a bad thing.

Thanks, saved me the trouble





Although it is annoying that some sports are bigger than rugby league at a lower level!

But it's not. Are you saying that from the first day college football started, they instantly got 50K crowds and played to an almost pro standard?

you say it has influence.i'll say this fixture has been going 30years & nothing has changed.my examples are quinns & skolars.

by the way.i watched tonights game & it was by far more entertaining than 3 of the 4 SL games i've seen this season & yes i know there was a lot of mistakes.

Yes to the crowds. No to the "pro standard" because there wasn't a pro league at the time. For the earliest days of the pro league, college football was considered the higher tier of quality.

It was a fairly good game in the end.

It's what's at stake that makes these things exciting. After all, when we watch a competition such as Who Wants to be a Millionaire, we don't complain that it isn't the highest standard of contestant, but it's entertaining because of the stake. Last nights game had more at stake for the players than a league game or a CC game would have for a pair of Sky's normal Thursday night teams.

Not a bad game all in all

Agreed. Well contested game.

Obviously not the highest quality, but very entertaining game between 2 evenly matched sides.

It's actually only 5 as the Cowboys stadium is expandable to 100,000k capacity.