Quins away game at 8pm on a Friday? I guess they don't want many away fans going!

I know, we are obviosuly not the peoples team any more!

To be fair, it's a friday at home as well.

I'm happy, I'm only going to get to one game next season, and it turns out that it's a home game

*does Happy Dance*

Brilliant planning by the rfl, go down friday day, watch bulls win, go out, sleep, go to the racing at ascot, go home,

Oh yeah, hadn't noticed that, I checked the away fixtures first. Neither game will have many away fans then!

Nice of Bradford to have the Quins game on a Friday night at Odslum when it looks like their usual time is 15.00 on Sundays

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Is this in retaliation for your game at the Stoop being on a Friday? I would have preferred our Friday night game experiment to have been against one of the perpetual Friday nighters - say Hull FC.

Looking at that list Macca should be easily capable of winning 5 of the first 10 games. Anything less and I don't think there's much point persevering with him with the squad we have assembled (pending Orford). Unless there are extentuenting circumstances like the squad being stricken with Swine Flu or something.

Looking at it - it is purely to allow the squad to have as many recovery days before the first of the Easter games (vs Leeds) as possible because then you have to back up 3-4 days later.

This seems to be the first time in ages that we won't be able to use the - "we played three games in 8 days Sun - Thu - Mon" excuse.

Good fixture management by the club imo

Friday night at Quins is just stupid, as is Quins at Odsal on a Friday. Can't the clubs do something about changing them?

When do we start playing our home games at Valley Parade?

That was my point - I think the club has already deliberately changed it from Sun to Friday to allow for 6/7 recovery before the Easter Thursday game

Some toughies in the first ten, should be an inyeresting start to the season. I'm getting a bit optimistic though.

Me too. Macca will get a new contract extension this year IMO. Expectations are rock bottom after last year, and with that squad we should be knocking on the door of the top 4. 5th place beckons for mine.

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the first game i'll be able to attend after coming back from afghan anyone want to meet for a few beers before the match?

You'll be lucky, I don't think there's a single person on here who isn't strictly teetotal.

(hic)

Expectations are far from rock bottom. Last year was an embarrasment for the club. One would hope a repeat of last years start to the season, especially given the money pumped into the squad this year, would mean that McNamara is out of Odsal so fast the door doesn't even have time to hit him in the harris

This is true and I take your point. Truth is though, and with all due respect to Quins `cos it`s along way, every other week, and not just occasionally like it is for us, there wouldn`t be that many of them at Odsal whatever the kick off time whereas................

Maybe they`re trying to maximise home support, and if so then good luck to them, however at face value they are a club which gets the better of the `suppporter exchange` and, to be honest, it seems a strange decision to effectively cut off a, not inconsiderable, revenue stream in this fashion.

tbh that makes sense and while it may be slightly unfair on quins we arent going to see a major hit on out gate as they only ever bring 50 or so anyway. And they expect us to travel down to london on a friday night too so its a bit of a case of pot calling kettle black , epsecially after way they mucked us about last year to accomodate their friendly with manly ( in fact I suspect RFL may have done this deliberately as compensation for last year).

How many Friday night fixtures do Quins have?
Not many I bet. How can they expect fans to make it on a Friday night? The earliest I could possibly leave work is 4pm, to make it to London by 8pm, its not possible, and I bet there are many more in my position. If they are doing in on purpose coz our home game is on a Friday, then it ridiculous.

People are putting us down (albeit on VT) to finish between 8th and 11th. With this squad i'd be very surprised to miss out on the playoffs and I would hope we are pushing for a place in top 6 and at best sneak into the top 4.

Maybe i'm being too optimistic, but with fresh halfbacks, and a bit of a clearout I can see us doing well next season.

I go to Quins every year. I won't be going this year. Have it on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon and I'm there. If they think I'm taking the day off work just to travel down at the worst traffic time and then either pay for a hotel or drive home and get back in the early hours, they can very well think again.

Bulls usually take a pretty good following to London, so they're only hitting their own gates by doing it. If their reasoning is to do with our home game being a Friday night, it's a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face. That seems highly unlikely reasoning for it though.

With going to London, I'd only want to make a weekend of it anyway, so a friday doesn't make much more difference than a saturday or sunday for me.

You not at work on the Friday then?

It is a shame - we have friends & family in London and generally try to get there for the quins game. But if we have to take a day off work to get there then that is a different matter. Might have to discuss this a bit