Not sure how it can be that different, it's 7 games and we know how the home and away decisions are made. Maybe it's the engagement with clubs/sky/rfl is what they are talking about.
The fixtures are published at 8am on Wednesday. There will be a few people looks at flights and hotels in Perpignan that day.
What weekend do we have Cats? Im assuming the order of matches is set its just the day over the weekend that needs agreeing based on Sky and ground availability. Cats ground is theres so it will be Sat at 5pm. Sky wont go over for that game.
Sky take the French TV feed and commentary is done in UK, so it will be on TV some Saturday at 5pm local time.. The game selection process is according to Hendo different to previous years. It will be done in consultation with the clubs. However Sky will select the games they wish to televise and the clubs and RFL will accommodate them.