Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:04 am  

Friday 4th August – Widnes Vikings (A)

Saturday 12th August – Catalans Dragons (H)

Saturday 19th August – Halifax (H) (SKY)

Saturday 2nd September – London Broncos (A) (SKY)

Saturday 9th September – Leigh Centurions (H)

Sunday 17th September – Featherstone Rovers (A)

Saturday 23rd September – Hull KR (H)

Time TBC and the last 3 games could change depending on SKY's selection.

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:19 am  

Friday 4th August – Widnes Vikings (A) ---8pm
Saturday 12th August – Catalans Dragons (H) --- 3pm
Saturday 19th August – Halifax (H) (SKY) --- 3.15pm
Saturday 2nd September – London Broncos (A) (SKY) --- 8pm
Saturday 9th September – Leigh Centurions (H) ---- 3pm
Sunday 17th September – Featherstone Rovers (A) ---- 3pm
Saturday 23rd September – Hull KR (H) ---- 3pm
(Times come from SuperLeagues fixture list)

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:28 am  

Tough start.

Looking at previous middle 8 tables, 2 losses is ok, 3 and you're in million £ game territory. We need to be winning at least one of the first two. Win both and we're home and dry I'd suggest.

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:41 am  

HKR last, hope that is not important for us by then

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:45 am  

Thats my day trip to London up the swanny if its 8pm k.o

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:52 am  

Longbarn Wire wrote:

Thats my day trip to London up the swanny if its 8pm k.o

+1

Why is this one 8pm, when the other Saturday TV games are afternoon? Bet London are well chuffed - their biggest game of the season, and a chance to get a good travelling support, and they get shafted by Sky, and get nothing for it. We've clearly less grounds to complain,as we loll around in Rupert's cash.

It's my only complaint though - i'm happy with Saturday afternoon games as the new norm, and pleased that I'll be able to make Fev away too.

Tough start (deliberate, surely, in an effort to create drama - the biggest story Sky/the RFL could hope for in the middles would be us struggling, so I find it hard to believe it's a coincidence we have our hardest game first, and second hardest second!).

I still think we'll slip up somewhere (this board will go into melt down if it's V. Widnes!!), but can't see us winning less than 6. Win the first 2, and we should win all 7.

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:00 am  

So there is in some quarters a doubt that we cant beat both our first two opponents in this little league? If we cant beat Widnes and Cats then I implore Simon Moran to shut down the club, bulldoze the site and build some houses.

We should be winning at least 6 of the games on that list even in our current crisis

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:12 am  

Snaggletooth wrote:

So there is in some quarters a doubt that we cant beat both our first two opponents in this little league? If we cant beat Widnes and Cats then I implore Simon Moran to shut down the club, bulldoze the site and build some houses.

We should be winning at least 6 of the games on that list even in our current crisis

If you are referring to my post, I make the point that this is the toughest start we could have had - do you disagree?

As I also said, I expect us to win 6 or 7 of these, but losing the first 2 would hardly constitute the biggest upset of all time. This is a risk, and I don't see why it's an issue to point it out. I still expect if we lose the Widnes game there will be people on here making ridiculous statements about bulldozing the ground and the like.

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:17 am  

Snaggletooth wrote:

So there is in some quarters a doubt that we cant beat both our first two opponents in this little league? If we cant beat Widnes and Cats then I implore Simon Moran to shut down the club, bulldoze the site and build some houses.

We should be winning at least 6 of the games on that list even in our current crisis

We've won 9 from 23 league games this season. We score on average 18 points a game. We let in on average 24 points a game.

After the season we've just witnessed any sane person would have quarters of doubt about beating our first two opponents. Especially with having to play Widnes on their god awful pitch.

Re: Middle 8's confirmed. Saturday rugby is back (nearly) : Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:43 am  

NtW wrote:

Longbarn Wire wrote:

Thats my day trip to London up the swanny if its 8pm k.o

+1

Why is this one 8pm, when the other Saturday TV games are afternoon? Bet London are well chuffed - their biggest game of the season, and a chance to get a good travelling support, and they get shafted by Sky, and get nothing for it. We've clearly less grounds to complain,as we loll around in Rupert's cash.

It's my only complaint though - i'm happy with Saturday afternoon games as the new norm, and pleased that I'll be able to make Fev away too.

Tough start (deliberate, surely, in an effort to create drama - the biggest story Sky/the RFL could hope for in the middles would be us struggling, so I find it hard to believe it's a coincidence we have our hardest game first, and second hardest second!).

I still think we'll slip up somewhere (this board will go into melt down if it's V. Widnes!!), but can't see us winning less than 6. Win the first 2, and we should win all 7.

Might be due to it being football international week and sky already have their live tv schedule for that day sorted, apart from that and the Widnes game [no trains back after the game] quite happy with the times