I agree that the league is a bit of a joke, there seems to be no consistency, and communication between clubs and the league is shocking.. We organised a team night out in newcastle a few weekends ago when we had a "free fixture", but we found out that we were to play orrel, we scrapped around for players, and non of the team went to newcastle, only to find out that they had cancelled just before we were due to set off.. yet even with persistent emailing to the Girvin's they have not given us the points AND more frustratingly not replied to our emails.
I personally dont think that the free weekend for the Wembley double header has anything to do with the league organisers, i think the RL lean on the league to not have a fixture just to pack out Wembley, and now they have got enough people interested the RL are assuming that the general public will be enough to fill Headingly, and dont need us RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS!!
But, I'm afraid I can't really sympathise with the clubs complaining about having to travel to Cumbria for 2.5 hours... Us and Hindpool have to do it every other weekend... Just get smashed on the bus, get the chants going and give the bus virgins a dirty half yard of, well, anything! You'll soon learn to love it!