Personally I don't get this 4 day turn around business and think it's, statistically, not going to effect the outcome of the next game anymore so than a 6 day turnaround. I'm sure Fax have actually won more of these games than not. However, obviously if we are requesting it then the players feel different so that's fair enough.

At the end of the day though, Sheffield have earned Home advantage and their say should go and that's that.

The plot thickens

So as I said , ' the plot thickens ' , I was questioning the Eagles over the delay in announcing when and where , your suggestion is that it is Fax that are the problem

Don't be daft as a game like this should be agreed by BOTH clubs as it is only the week or less before the winners will play at Fev or Leigh. Would you be happy if it was the other way around???
But I am sure Mr Aston will do his damnest to make life difficult for us and pass all the blame onto us as always.

Mark Aston always moans in the run up to a game with Fax, takes the shine off when Fax win then!

I bet he's been at the txting too!

like what happened with whithaven the other year,the kicked up a fuss and would not play friday night when we had home advantage,,,

Yeah i was thinking that. Didnt we end up playing Sunday because the majority of the games had been on Sundays and it was easier for Haven to travel on Sunday? If thats the case and Sheffield have played most of their games Sunday and want to play at Bramhall Lane then we should accept Sunday. Nobody said it was going to be easy finishing Sixth and lets not forget Eagles are favs for this game so if they want to play it Sunday they are not doing themselves any favours either. Which begs the question is it really us kicking up a fuss or do Sheffield want to play the game earlier as well and this is why its taking a while to sort out.

Just a bunch of squatters with no rights over their 'home' ground.

It would be good if The Eagles came up with their own ground sometime in the near future,so we don't have a repeat performance of all this bickering......I seem to think that this particular game has always been played on a friday since we've had the play offs....correct me if I am wrong...Rugby League is quickly becoming the pantomime of the modern sporting world.....We all want it playing at a certain time to suit ourselves,but the main thing that we want is a good fax performance and a win.
Whoever gets to this match,whenever it is are wherever it is,lets get behind the lads and hope for another win...
I'm in the friday camp,mainly because more of my friends can make it..!!

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Looks like the Eagles fans would prefer Friday as well, at least then whoever wins gets a reasonable recovery time.

Nope we want it at Bramall Lane and the only day they'll let us play there is Sunday.

I agree it is a pain in the ar$e not having our own ground, at the end of the day Sheffield is a football city, two big clubs although they're not exactly at their highest ebb at the moment, then we've got Rotherham squatting as well.

And I guess it must really be strain paying money that goes to the Blades as well.