Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Tue May 04, 2010 11:32 am  

Here here Marshy

my 2 pence is Would it not be better if we had the event as a season opener, Most fans miss there Rugby while the close season is on so would jump at the chance to visit a stadium and see all SL teams 1st w-end of season .
Newcastle also get my vote but a football stadium during the season might be a big ask!!

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Tue May 04, 2010 12:09 pm  

Problem with doing it at start of the season is Finances.

the new season starts in february which means if you have an opening weekend event when would you have to book hotels etc. Possibly January even December. Not sure about you but i am normally skint in those two months what with presents and paying the impending credit card.

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Tue May 04, 2010 1:34 pm  

south of france / northen spain ?

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Wed May 05, 2010 9:34 am  

duke street 10 wrote:

Villa park is a tidy ground and Birmingham city centre has been redeveloped

It's just a shame Villa Park is 30 minutes from Birmingham City Centre on public transport... people complain about Murrayfield being too far away from the centre of Edinburgh

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Wed May 05, 2010 11:11 am  

binks wrote:

Here here Marshy

my 2 pence is Would it not be better if we had the event as a season opener, Most fans miss there Rugby while the close season is on so would jump at the chance to visit a stadium and see all SL teams 1st w-end of season .
Newcastle also get my vote but a football stadium during the season might be a big ask!!

The concept is good, but how cold would that be. Cold enough to put me off sitting all day. No ta.

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Wed May 05, 2010 11:24 am  

Maybe I'm in a minority of 1, but I think that the whole concept is unfair, as individual teams may or may not get a difficult game. It's OK if you win like we did this time, but adding another random game for teams that may have lots of injuries cannot be justified. We were lucky that we got Catalan at a time that they are not in good form and have lost players, but what if we had got one of the top 4 teams and got thumped, making our points difference even worse and picking up even more injuries!

[tb]

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Wed May 05, 2010 12:19 pm  

This is also true of any other round of games.

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Wed May 05, 2010 12:28 pm  

I think an even fixture list (i.e. everyone plays each other home and away) would increase the arguments against having the playoffs, which have arguably become a very popular aspect of each campaign and maintain interest and competition throughout.

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Wed May 05, 2010 2:48 pm  

If they could find a way so that teams ended up playing the team next to them in the table at that time, so 1v2, 3v4... Problem is the organisation in not knowing which team will be in which position until a week before and so not knowing whose playing on each day.

Also I can't see any football clubs wanting seven matches played on their pitch at any time of the year.

Re: Tigers at Murrayfield : Thu May 06, 2010 12:00 pm  

I am not against the play-off system because teams who run into form late in the season may have a good go at it, eg, Catalans, but adding another round of league games on the false premise of spreading the game to other ares, when in truth it is all just about making money is not fair to the clubs on a number of levels. The only positive I can see is the publicity gained by Sky advertising it as a spectacular event, but even that is negated by the empty seats seen during their TV coverage.
Not even the NRL (who we copy the play-off system from) are daft enough to think that this is a viable concept.