I know it is yet another change to this fixture, but clearly a very sensible and wise one for both clubs in the circumstances.


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Excellent news.

Works out nicely.

Odd that it's on a Friday night, unless Sky are taking an interest.

Don't Wakefield usually play their home games on Sundays?

Consecutive league games then v Wakey, must be some sort of a first?!

Yes they do, but we of course play ours on a Friday and Andrew Glover & James Elston are no fools. This is their biggest gate of the season and I think a Friday night clash is likely to bring a bigger gate than the Sunday. hence the Friday.

I also think it might have been easier to get the RFL to agree to the switch, since that's semi-final weekend, and they'll want to keep other games away from those two matches.

Wasn't the original game on a Friday night?

We played Leigh away and home in consecutive weeks in 2005.

Matt beat me to it but here's my offering on the subject all the same.



It's a first for Leeds V Wakefield during the SL Era but not the first time Leeds have met the same opponents in consecutive games in League fixtures - the most recent occurrence of this was on the 13th and 20th May 2005 V Leigh and both those games were scheduled as opposed to either being re-arranged.

In terms of Leeds meeting Wakefield in consecutive weeks and consecutive League games prior to the SL Era it happened on four separate occasions over the period 1959/60 to 1995/96:

1963 - 26th Dec and 28th Dec

1976 - 28th Mar and 3rd Apr

1989 - 5th Mar and 12th Mar

1991 - 29th Mar and 1st Apr

Presumably return Easter fixtures playing a role in some of the above.

Good news hopefully the widnes game is on a free weekend too assuming they get knocked out before the final.

I think we play Widnes on the Monday of the England v Exiles weekend.17th of June