I'm going. To be honest we're going for the beer and the trip away with the lads, we're going to get hammered, we know we are......but the rugby might just sober us up.

An ex-Bull Lewis Charnock now playing for Barrow is apparently on Hull KR's radar - does anyone have anyone information on the player ie would he be a good signing. Rovers are also intereested in Joe Bullock (Barrow)

No thanks. I've never seen how these daft fixtures fit into a regular league format and this year is grossly unfair on our club even before we imploded. In any case Hull KR must be odds on to take us to the cleaners again.

Feel sorry for anyone going to watch that!

We only had him on loan at the back end of last season from Saints. To be honest, I liked him. The sort of hard working little half back that whilst not spectacular, he puts full effort in and has enough skill to play the position without looking out of place. Sort of player I think we could really do with now to be honest, a right little tough nut. Not convinced he'd improve Rovers' squad that much though with the likes of Abdull, Ellis, Dockar-Clay & Lunt already there.

should be hull kr - London
fev batley
Halifax Bradford etc

league positions last year better crowd on each day then as well

Hull KR fans are planning a minutes applause on the 22nd minute, I'm sure the bulls fans will play their part too. https://twitter.com/ashkitson1867/statu ... 2328954885

Hull KR fans are planning a minutes applause on the 22nd minute, I'm sure the bulls fans will play their part too. https://twitter.com/ashkitson1867/statu ... 2328954885

Watched Barrow a good few times this season and Charnock has been excellent. Bullock has been immense for the last few seasons, hard to tell how he'd go at Championship but he certainly wouldn't take a backwards step!

Can't see why either would leave to play periodically with you though, can't see them displacing anyone in your current squad.

I don't think this will be as one sided as most people are predicting. As for the format I don't see why the matches have to be decided so early, Why can't it be a 1st plays 2nd - 3rd plays 4th etc... Keeps it competitive and makes nearly every game an important 4 pointer. Maybe set the match ups 3 weeks-ish in advance to allow coaches to prepare. So go on the position at week 10 or 11.

Simple, because it's all about the crowd. If you wait until 3 weeks in advance before deciding what the games are based on league position, fans don't know if they are playing on the Saturday or the Sunday, so will withhold buying tickets (except those going for the full weekend). There'll then be a 3 week mad dash for people to buy tickets for the day their team is playing on, as well as potentially booking hotels and transport.

The only way you could leave the exact matches until later in the season is if you picked 6 sides to play Saturday and 6 sides to play Sunday early on, and then decided the matches from those 6 closer to the day.

What possible evidence do you have that brings you to that conclusion?
You have seen us play right?



Although this makes perfect logical sense, when has that ever applied to the RFL? And how would they be able to sell weekend tickets, hotel breaks, etc, if people did not know what day their team would be playing on until a few weeks before?

Let's see if Dane can make an impact.

If I'm honest, I'm a bit annoyed that people have vindicated this disgrace of a fixture by going in their thousands. It wasn't a fair fixture when we had a full squad, it's a bonkers fixture without one. Yes I get wanting to support the lads, but giving the RFL the bumper crowd doesn't feel very productive for our club.

Even for the RFL it makes no sense to have the best supported teams play one another, as the aggregate gate for the other day will be absolute pants.

Personally, I'm very interested to see the crowd figure on Sunday. Sure there'll be a few from the Saturday clubs that have bought weekend tickets, but other than that there's only Halifax who are likely to take any kind of following. Dewsbury, Batley, Swinton & Sheffield brought hardly any to Odsal and I assume won't take many to Blackpool, whereas Toulouse will be lucky to hit double figures I would think.

I agree with you on the first point though, I would have actually liked Bulls fans to give a big two fingers up to the RFL for the unfair fixture and all refuse to go. Over 2,000 of them going though means the RFL will continue on that path.

I'm stunned that we only have 50 tickets of our allocation left to sell.
With everything that's gone on with our club recently and the sorry state of affairs our squad is in right now, I really can't get my head around all those Bulls supporters bothering to go. I mean, each to their own, but they must all be gluttons for punishment.

I'm not even planning on watching our game on tv, never mind spending all that time, effort and money on heading over there.

I think some of us are probably too old and cynical now. Whereas we were once bright eyed and optimistic and went to lots of away games we now have other matters to attend to and can see through the bull.