PopTart the original format has been changed, trust us on this one

Originally the team finishing 2nd in the championship seemed to have the better of the fixtures, which was obviously not right, so the RFL changed it mid season and probably hoped nobody would notice, which is obviously par for the course for them

The title of the thread and comments about Wakefield implied you had issue with Wakefield. If you say not I'm fine with that.
But saying you won't go because you don't want to give money to Wakefield is exactly not supporting your club.

As for the fixtures. Clearly it affected Bradford so you would notice more than me. I was just saying I hadn't seen them change. They don't seem to have for us.

Anyway, let's see how this weekend goes. It would be nice to be watching two teams with 2 points each next week.

PopTart, the fixtures were changed a few weeks ago. Another endearing moment for the RFL.

I understand the sentiment of the OP however I think his choice of action is maybe not correct. Why not go instead and show a protest banner to make your message?

Your team needs your support so to deny it because you have a dispute with the RFL is penalising an innocent.

I agree the funding for these middle 8 televised matches stinks and is unfair.

The RFL always seems to muddle through at first missing the obvious.

In terms of the 80k put in the pot, just have a look at how many home televised matches Wakey have had on Sky this year. Saints and Wigan spring to mind but I'm struggling to think of many beyond that. Crikey even Warrington get more appearances in a month and they've had a shocker of a season so far.

Come on down to the oldest RL ground in the world on Sunday and support your team. You are all welcome.

A band played Rebellion festival this weekend called Geoffrey Oicott. Could we Oicott Wakey instead?

Part of our (Leighs) problem with the Sky funding in the 8's is that logic says 7 weeks and all will get a live tv game 3pm saturday bar Sheffield who have no fans.
So when we get our 2 SL clubs as our first 2 fixtures at home live on Sky it stinks. Saturday crippled us 4500 when sunday would have been closer to 8000, even corporate was shafted as most regulars had booked corporate at Haydock parks big race day months beforehand. Probably cost us £60k we cant afford to throw away

Shouldn't be a problem, your fans' have been doing it for years.

Much like most of your own.

Not quite, just recently.

Your Attendances are an embarrassment

Hi again PT,

May I refute your idea that I won't go to the Wakefield game because I wouldn't want to give money to the club, is ridiculous,to me anyway. I don't ever believe staying away and cutting off your nose to spite your face is the silliest reason to not go to any game!

As for your comment on fixtures, both Hull KR and Bradford are the affected teams, as we both were subjected to a home fixture against team 6 (the 12th Finisher in SL) which was changed to an away fixture. In fact team 6 in every instance was replaced by team 7 (Sheffield). This in no way is any fault of your club? But I asked why, and as supporters shouldn't we have been told by the RFL? If it was a logical reason don't we deserve to be told what it is?

As for the £80k per team, this was never mentioned in the original policy review, and of course the new Sky deal doesn't kick in until 2017, so this £80k either came out of the £300k SL clubs got at the end of 2014, as a parachute payment> but if that was the case why didn't they say so at the time??

My case now rests!

I get the change thing now. I hadn't seen a change but everyone else seems to have so I bow to the greater knowledge.

Regarding the change, it was just poor planning/management by the RFL. However the changes are much fairer as the team that finished first in the championship for 2 SL teams at home to originally having 1. Was just poor planning the RFL were so late in making the changes.

Anywhere which ever teams don't go up, it's because they weren't good enough on the field, not because of the fixtures.

It shouldn't be this Saturday if the Bulls are coming then eh?

In fairness to the OP, the players Boycotted Wakefield today too.