: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:34 pm  

Seems to me everyone is trying to blame each other, i.e. RFL saying its Sky, then this guy blaming Quins for saying we dont take many supporters. Myself where i think he got that idea from is,somebody at Quins must have had a look at how many if any had book thoguht the Club or Catalan Tours and come up with a silly answer.

Have to admit that guy from RFL on radio last night. made me laugh when he said "well we moved a Wigan game at Catalans once before and they didnt mind", only to add it was at was at a start of a season and they did have a few months notice. , and how kind they have been in giving us 6 weeks notce instead of the normal 4

But even so the one thing is EITHER of them, Sky or RFL have yet said why they had to move it to a Sunday, Unless i missed that,but i'm sure i didnt

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:50 pm  

Unfortunately, I suspect the sad economic reality is that putting 20 or 30 or 100 people in this position every time when this happens will not deter Sky from doing it again. It's not their money - and if 10% or 50% of those people cancel their Sky subscriptions in protest, it's a drop in the ocean to them.

It wasn't very clever of the RFL man to come out and say it out loud, but he is right - the numbers involved are small. Very annoying if you are one of them (as I am - have now lost wads of money changing our plans) - but ultimately small numbers of people affected in the scheme of things, and hence nothing we can do.

Now that I am spending a small fortune to see this game, we had better bloody well win.

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:05 pm  

No your wrong BG ....... suggest you check what the Sun wrote about that particular 'frog'.......it was much worse than my remark.......

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:15 pm  

Did not hear the radio broadcast, but this `small numbers` thing is a total red herring..........did the RFL man happen to mention what `numbers` criteria is being applied?......When does an acceptable number of inconvenienced fans become unacceptable.....is 100, 250, 1000???

As most fans from all clubs travel under their own steam for the Catalan game, how did the RFL or anybody else for that matter arrive at a number that would be inconvenienced?

The reality is that the Catalan game is a special game where many fans who do not normally travel to away games make that extra effort, so normal travelling numbers in the UK do not apply.

I am still none the wiser as to why the game was moved and what criteria (if any) was applied which made someone think it was fine to do so......but then again what do I know, I am just a dumb fan who was travelling to France, had booked holiday, paid for flights, booked accomodation etc, only to see it all undone and to end up our of pocket.

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:14 pm  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 084035.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 084035.stm

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:20 pm  

Bilko wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/super_league/london/8084035.stm

After reading that the Rfl does not have a scooby. Change flights after booking with Ryan air

: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:24 pm  

Add this to their current woes http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=413389&start=0 Who is worst the RFL or Gordon Brown

Add this to their current woes http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=413389&start=0 Who is worst the RFL or Gordon Brown

: Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:00 am  

Craig Spence at the RFL should be sacked immediately for coming out with that pile of sh.it.

: Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:26 am  

snip.
Really should control my emotions.

Let's just say I do not believe the quote on the BBC site attributed to our General Manager....
"We obviously made a representation at the time saying that this is going to seriously impact on a group of our supporters".

yeah right ........but decided not to tell anyone until it became obvious that we had really c0cked this up.

: Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:55 am  

gutterfax wrote:

1.SKY called the RFL to see if the fixture could be moved.
2. The RFL called the club and a member of staff (no name was given to me) said that as we didn't have many fans who go to away games, there was no problem as far as Harlequins Rugby League were concerned (I WILL COME BACK TO THIS)

Do you really believe the 'individual' involved glibly accepted this ? Maybe, the RFL made it clear there was no room for manouvre ? Maybe numbers were never discussed ?

I struggle to understand why you are constantly siding against the club nowadays. I thought this was the domain of DL and you were more constructive, well these days all you come out with criticism, I sense as a result of a massive frustration that things are not moving as quickly as we all would like ?

Bottom line, people keep saying this is year 1 of a 3 year programme - things will not turn around in a matter of months - the proof will be in the pudding at the end of year 3 or next time the franchises come round. I am sure no one at the club is under any illusion here or do you think they just dont care ?