Friday Evening.
Its Summer and the cricket season.
Bring back Winter rugby!!!

The 'traditional' day used to be Saturday, but that is going back to the 50s and 60s, when BBC Grandstand used to show the second half (just the second half live) of one of that day's games with commentary from the inimitable Eddie Waring. Even though only the second half (note Stevo - half, not stanza) was covered, the game got useful publicity. I was in digs in the early 60s with a county standard RU playing guy from the West Country and he thoroughly enjoyed the coverage and found the code to be exciting. The same must have been true with countless other people.

Back to the present - Sundays for me for all Championship games. I used to love getting in my car after a match to drive home and being able to catch up with all the scores and reports from that afternoon's round of games. It was all part and parcel of the gameday experience for me. Let SL spread its fixtures around, but lets be different and and have just one gameday a week..........Sunday!

We cant do anything about the SKY days, so we have to play on a Thursday for that, but 71% of the 38 votes so far are going for Sunday (which I did) which surely should tell the club something!!!

Any day for us as home fans is fine but I would imagine less traveling support would show on a Friday evening. There again if you don't try, you don't find out.

I work night shift through to Friday morning so the only no-go is Thursday.

If there are any big games on, it means me using a day's holiday or not being paid until I get in after 10 o'clock. It can work out expensive so Thursday is not the preferred option.

I prefer Friday night as it leaves Sundays to do something with the Mrs as she works Saturday mornings!
Plus in summer its hard going to the rugby when the sun is shining and you could be tripping off somewhere.
BUT
Sundays are better for away fans, Leigh for example would have probably brought a few more say 100 if the game had been on a Sunday.
Sundays do not clash with some peoples shift patterns, I have a mate who was working last Friday on 'lates' and had to miss the game, I am sure there are at least 50 to 100 of those. Add to that people who come from out of town to support Fax and there are a few of them too.
That can mean an extra 200 on the gate x £14 thats a lot of money the club loses, especially at this level.

Sundays means less rush for most people as if you work out of town and a lot do, or late until 6pm say its hard getting home, your tea and then down to the Shay for kick off.
Plus the club do better for Diners on Sundays.

So the facts say Sundays despite my preference for Fridays, you cannot please them all.
I wonder what the players prefer out of interest?

Def sunday.The M62 is evil to travel on any early evening but particularly fri.Other routes also get clogged as people try to avoid the motorways.

I don't want to hijack this thread into a discussion of 'Game On.'
However, anyone who read the Chairman's piece for Halifax v Leigh would have read, "your Board wanted to try a series of Friday games in the second half of the season to gauge supporters' liking for it. Next season, we anticipate that it will be easier to sell corporate packages in the new facilities on a Friday, but of course our regular supporters are the 'bread and butter' of the Club, so tell us which day you prefer."
It is true that the Club also wanted to establish our 'home fixture day' as Friday before the play-offs start, so that we can't be overruled when specifying Friday for non-televised play-off matches, which we would do to avoid a Sunday to Thursday turn round, which gives a part time team little recovery opportunity.
Clearly, the regulars on this Board prefer Sunday, but last Sunday how many would have preferred Giants v Cas or (God forbid) Bulls v someone else. And how many prefer the atmosphere under lights

I don't think that our SL neighbours are as big a threat as they used to be so no clash with either of them imo

friday nights leave the weekend free for the family, but cross pennine travell is a no go really. plus you can stop out for a beer and curry on friday.

Nothing like a great game under lights. However it doesn't get dark until about half ten through July so that doesn'y quite work.

The point of the poll was to establish when the fans want to watch their rugby rather than sponsors. The results would appear fairly conclusive.

On a personal level I would prefer friday night if I lived in Fax. Cracking way to end the working week, then a few pints afterwards and a kebab from Get Stuffed - perfect! Unfortunately I have a 130 mile round trip for every home game which puts me in the same boat as most away fans

Plus what about the youngsters ? I know there is no school the day after but my kids won`t let me take our grandchildren to a night match.
It breaks the routine next news they find something else to do Sunday and they are lost to rugby.