catalan away then wigan at home is the rumour

Well Gotcha said that he's heard it'll be Wigan at home in the first week which sounds very possible. Regardless of what happened this week we were guaranteed to have them at home and you'd imagine Sky would (should) want a big game to kick off the Super 8's......would be a bit disappointing to kick it off with Hull at home to Catalans live on Sky.

Cats away, saints at HJ, Wigan at home sounds like a hard way to start.who will saints be playing before ? If they get cas at home the week before and a slightly longer turn around then the semi could be a very hard game for us

The semi is this Friday just 5 days away, no more league games before we play Saints in the cup.

The team I'd least relish playing in either of those slots would be Wigan. That's the game we really need to win above all others IMO.

Thanks, I am so behind on checking my calendar.Don't want to miss that one xD

Headingley is not available for home matches on the following dates:
Friday 14th August, Sunday 6th September, Sunday 20th September and Saturday 26th September - Yorkshire Carnegie playing at home and Friday 18th September - Madness concert.

Wigan, Huddersfield and Hull also have various unavailable dates due to home football matches

I hope so, I'm beside Perpignan for the next two weeks.

Haven't wigan decided to forfeit home advantage in one of theirs by playing it in London?
They're not at their soundest away from the JJB either.

No the one home game in London idea doesn't start until next season, I'd guess they'll do it with a regular season game against the likes of Catalans probably. They say it's going to be a yearly thing but can't see it lasting too long personally.

Rumours we are in France on Saturday 12th september. With England vs Australia that weekend that's feasible. I'd expect:

07/08 Home
14/08 Home
21/08 Away
04/09 Home
12/09 Away
17/09 Home
25/09 Away
That's judging by the dates headingley is available too.

Wouldn't mind starting at Warrington, Mid September to Catalan and finish with an away game at Huddersfield.

IMO you want the likes of Hull FC and Catalan Dragons towards the back end of the 8s when they are likely to have nothing but finishing positions to play for, rather than early in the piece when they still have slim ambitions of making the top four.