: Sat May 30, 2009 1:48 pm  

absolutely amazing! Month 2 go and they do this ok I am going, it will not have that much effect for me as going thus coming back following Fri but still have hotel booked in perp fri night as well as sat which I don't need now
Shocking if the club have not complained I'm the strongest possible way, alto I doubt it, this is the sort of thing that turns people away from a sport! Games up north ok! I know people book hotels but travel can be done 2 all games in a day!
This situation needs serious action from the paying public
Yes I will be on 2 rl and sl

: Sat May 30, 2009 2:36 pm  

I have emailed them when i lost money for the Hull KR game and I emailed the bootsnall address and got told:

"I’m afraid those are the terms of the contract, and that is stated on the fixture lists. This is the price of both teams having successful seasons. "

and after saying that a bit more notice would be good they said


Aaron, after giving the first 14 weeks of the season, we then work on a four week notice period until the final few weeks.

This is an accurate reflection of what happens in most sports, is far more than in some, and a great deal more than in the NRL.

Its a no win situation. Without this we cannot follow form, and quite rightly we get complaints from fans ( including Quins ) that we don’t see enough of them in the early season when they are playing well. Castleford being a classic case this season.

We are coming to Quins for the Leeds game on the 20th by the way. Please get in touch with me and come over to meet Eddie and Stevo.

Neville Smith

Executive Producer

So it looks like it is going to be like this for the rest of the season!

: Sat May 30, 2009 2:40 pm  

I would consider the people on here a small percentaqe of those who at least know about this. What about the fans who don't have access to a computer. When will they be told. I have not received any form of written content about the game movement from the club and I doubt anyone else has. I don't think it has been on text so there could be a vast number out there who will only find out about it on Saturday. Shameful, I hope those who made the decisions and those who agreed it have a good weekend because an awful lot of us wont.

: Sat May 30, 2009 2:52 pm  

This really is disgraceful, I made a quick GF type calculation and think given the numbers that I have seen in the past this could easily be costing quins fans 100K (300 * 300 gets you to 90K). Sadly once SKY have your subscription money then they are happy, however quins fans boycotting RFL events would hit them hard enough.

As for the club, they get hansomely rewarded by SKY, and as someone else stated probably get comepnsation, so why care about them? Just another example of the club in it's current guise not really giving a hoot about it's fans.

: Sat May 30, 2009 3:04 pm  

Its made a pigs ear of my plans. The cost to move the flight forward one day is more than the cost of the return trip for 2 of us. Plus the extra night in accommodation.

I think I will just lose the flights and stay at home and watch it on the box! What a sickener. I wasn't going to go them had a change of heart-bloody typical.

: Sat May 30, 2009 3:51 pm  

amlomax1991 wrote:

I have emailed them when i lost money for the Hull KR game and I emailed the bootsnall address and got told:

"I’m afraid those are the terms of the contract, and that is stated on the fixture lists. This is the price of both teams having successful seasons. "

and after saying that a bit more notice would be good they said


Aaron, after giving the first 14 weeks of the season, we then work on a four week notice period until the final few weeks.

This is an accurate reflection of what happens in most sports, is far more than in some, and a great deal more than in the NRL.

Its a no win situation. Without this we cannot follow form, and quite rightly we get complaints from fans ( including Quins ) that we don’t see enough of them in the early season when they are playing well. Castleford being a classic case this season.

We are coming to Quins for the Leeds game on the 20th by the way. Please get in touch with me and come over to meet Eddie and Stevo.

Neville Smith

Executive Producer

So it looks like it is going to be like this for the rest of the season!

I think that's a fair enough answer in relation to games played here. We may not like it, but Sky are working within the terms of their contract.

But, to my knowledge, they've never shifted a game day in France before and I suppose that we'd all thought that they wouldn't. After all, they very rarely show the French home games. Now that they've done it once, they can be expected to do it again, and so I wouldn't expect many people to continue booking their travel to France in advance and so far fewer will travel in future.

: Sun May 31, 2009 8:17 am  

Goes to show that the fan is deemed irrelivant these days. I doubt many will book for next year, so its Cats who will suffer in the long term.

: Sun May 31, 2009 9:38 am  

I've just had a look at the other fixtures for this round. Huddersfield v Warrington and Bradford v Wigan are already on the Sunday afternoon. Why couldn't Sky have shown one of these games instead? It's unlikely any away supporters would have already spent money to attend at the original time, and kicking off three hours later wouldn't be a huge inconvenience for many. They're already showing two of our games in June. (Including the Hull KR away that was switched to the Friday night after a suppporters' coach had been organised.)

There are three other games on the Friday involving clubs no more than 50 miles or so apart. Couldn't one of those have been moved to the Sunday? They only take their cameras to Perpignan once in a blue moon anyway. Why couldn't they have waited for a fixture that wouldn't need to be moved from the usual 6pm Saturday time?

: Sun May 31, 2009 10:25 am  

Briali1 wrote: email addresses enquiries@rfl.uk.com bootsnall@sky.com skysports.com Make sure you bombard them. shocking must be a nightmare to rearrange, I will send my comments as well even tho it won't effect me, disgraceful attitude that will turn new fans away

Briali1 wrote: email addresses enquiries@rfl.uk.com bootsnall@sky.com skysports.com Make sure you bombard them. shocking must be a nightmare to rearrange, I will send my comments as well even tho it won't effect me, disgraceful attitude that will turn new fans away

: Sun May 31, 2009 11:42 am  

I've emailed Sky, the RFL and the club to complain about this.

We've booked flights and accommodation for four (2x adults and 2x children) based on the published date/time. Luckily for us we were planning on staying on in the area for a few days anyway so we can hopefully still get to the match. I really do feel for those who cannot alter plans and will miss the game and/or end up out of pocket.

I think that there should be some recompense for those who have been affected by this - even if it is only a token gesture - at least it would help to restore a little bit of faith in those who run and broadcast the game. I'm not counting on it though.