: Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:54 pm  

TV Games - Sunday 5th April BBC2

Catalans v Bradford - 2:30pm
Leeds v St Helens - 4:30pm

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:14 pm  

Surprised the Beeb have forked out for a trip to France, unless they use a French feed.

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:32 pm  

they went over their few yrs ago when Justin Morgan's team reached the 1/4s (Tolouse?). Wasnt it a red hot day & there team included about half of the current Catalan team?

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:36 pm  

griffax wrote:

they went over their few yrs ago when Justin Morgan's team reached the 1/4s (Tolouse?). Wasnt it a red hot day & there team included about half of the current Catalan team?

That was a quarter final game against Widnes; Toulouse lost to Leeds in the semi final that year (2005). It was the TV curtain raiser to Wigan losing 75-0 at Saints.

We lost by 50-odd points away to Hull FC the day before so, as you can imagine, the two games on the Sunday cheered us up no end

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:42 pm  

griffax wrote:

they went over their few yrs ago when Justin Morgan's team reached the 1/4s (Tolouse?). Wasnt it a red hot day & there team included about half of the current Catalan team?

Yeh, Was Red Hot, I Was in Paris at the time and the heat was ridiculous, Think it'll be a big advantage to Toulouse who will be used to it and some teams travelling over there will tire very quick in the heat.

Dont think Widnes were helped by wearing Black shirts either (IIRC).

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:48 pm  

Widnes wore that vile grey effort that day.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:59 am  

Perhaps this is a mad idea but...

With the Halifax vs Widnes match being a split all pay gate, why not (provided both clubs agree) set the Entry prices the same as against Loughborough (£10 Adults ect)

Would maximise the crowd, 3300 the other night whilst on telly was a great crowd, could potencially add 1000 1500 to that with it not been on the box.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:23 am  

Brew wrote:

Perhaps this is a mad idea but...

With the Halifax vs Widnes match being a split all pay gate, why not (provided both clubs agree) set the Entry prices the same as against Loughborough (£10 Adults ect)

Would maximise the crowd, 3300 the other night whilst on telly was a great crowd, could potencially add 1000 1500 to that with it not been on the box.

Cracking Idea

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:12 pm  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

Surprised the Beeb have forked out for a trip to France, unless they use a French feed.

What? Like snails, frog's legs and stuff?