Re: Rearranged fixtures : Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:03 pm  

moto748 wrote:

But on freebie Sky (Sky Sports Mix, etc) or 'Sky Sky'?

Specific channels not listed/decided as yet. On the Sky Sports RL website ('On Sky' section) they are all listed simply as Sky Sports. As with the soccer I would guess most would be on the subscription sports channels with a few appearing on Sky Sports Mix or on Pick.

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:47 pm  

Jukesays wrote:

Anyone moaning about it not being "Fair" because of the home and away issue really need to get a grip.
Given the circumstances and reality, costs need to be kept to a minimum, safety to a maximum.

If you think for one second that players/coaches will be complaining about it your living in dream world.

Get the game going, let fans enjoy the games on TV and anyone complaining for christs sake give your head a wobble.

I thought the return of football was farcical but this is ridiculous

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:04 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

I thought the return of football was farcical but this is ridiculous

What is specifically ?
Do you mean we shouldnt be playing?

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:16 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

I thought the return of football was farcical but this is ridiculous

Will they be in each others faces after scoring a try like when they are after scoring a goal in football?

Sorry, I forgot those in sport are exempt from social distance regulations imposed on the rest of us!

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:31 am  

Jukesays wrote:

What is specifically ?
Do you mean we shouldnt be playing?

Neutral grounds, but only for some teams. I guess we know which clubs aholes the RFL are up. No surprises really.

Wigan play Leeds at St Helens, whilst The DW (and Robin Park for that matter) is perfectly covid free with additional changing rooms.

Are sky going to play crowd noise? So basically every time you watch Leeds all you can hear is some poop trumpet and cries of foooorwaaaard.

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:36 am  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Neutral grounds, but only for some teams. I guess we know which clubs aholes the RFL are up. No surprises really.

Wigan play Leeds at St Helens, whilst The DW (and Robin Park for that matter) is perfectly covid free with additional changing rooms.

Are sky going to play crowd noise? So basically every time you watch Leeds all you can hear is some poop trumpet and cries of foooorwaaaard.

At least the Saints fans will be muted

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:09 am  

I was just putting together a post to show that there would be no "Home Advantage".

e.g. Warrington's first match is a "home" fixture against Hull KR, played at Headingley, followed by Huddersfield "away" at Saints
Saints have a "home" game against Catalans, also at Headingley, but then have Leeds at Headingley, followed by Wakefield at their own ground.

This should have been pïss simple.

Either all teams use their own grounds or (more likely), you have 3 or 4 grounds (as they have), but 2 grounds are used each weekend.
e.g. Saints host 3 matches on Saturday and Leeds host 3 on Sunday.
NO team is allowed to play at their home ground.
If Leeds & Saints are due to meet, it happens at Wire.
It's easy.

Typical SL/RFL half-arsed rubbish.

On the up-side, at least we get the game back.

Be very interested to see how the money is split though, given that we have a perfectly good stadium, certified COVID-19 free for football, that is going unused.
Do those 3 clubs get extra money that the rest don't, for the use of the stadia?

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Fri Jul 17, 2020 9:39 am  

If the RFL were so worried about testing and Covid free grounds then why didn't they have the neutral grounds at Hull FC, Hudds and Wigan where they are Covid free and testing for soccer.

So simple yet they have made such a complete and utter dogs breakfast.

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:27 am  

Without getting into the detail of every point

Have you ever thought there may be "Reasons We don't know about" behind why the grounds have been selected/Not selected
The DW for example - Maybe there are "Other issues" - Football rules/regs issues that meant Football stadia couldn't be used? Maybe by keeping it to RL owned stadia only the shared costs to all clubs may be lower & Easier to organise - You know, to make it better/Cost effective for RL as a whole

For a start I have a bit of an insight into How hard it was to get the DW up & running for Football and how much it cost etc.
Also How the areas are divided up within the stadium and categorized Red/Amber/Green etc. so each set of people can only enter each one etc. The complications are massive.

Look at what happened with Joffra Archer yesterday - 1 slip up could have put the whole series off and costs tens of Millions!!!!

The sport needs the TV Money - We need to get the game back on and we need to do it in the most cost effective/safe way we can

Can't wait for it to start again and couldn't give a Toss where they play!!!!!

Re: Rearranged fixtures : Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:21 am  

Either all teams use their own grounds or (more likely), you have 3 or 4 grounds (as they have), but 2 grounds are used each weekend.
e.g. Saints host 3 matches on Saturday and Leeds host 3 on Sunday.
NO team is allowed to play at their home ground.
If Leeds & Saints are due to meet, it happens at Wire.
It's easy.

Typical SL/RFL half-arsed rubbish.

On the up-side, at least we get the game back.




Couldn’t agree more, every game played on a neutral field.