At the end of the day the rfl do the fixtures and claim to meet clubs preferences as best they can. Incidentally Few are very good at postponing/moving fixtures especially at easter to give themselves just one fixture instead of two. Shuffled aren'tt bad at fixture manipulation either.

If the club, as i was informed, has asked for mainly Sundays then they have listened to the fans.

I can't get my head round this "players want/fans want" argument, it is a no brainer. The players are employees and the fans contribute to their wages. The club selects the dates to suit the fans. Simple!!.

Don't be surprised if there is a clash that Swinton may play at Warrington instead.

Doubt that quite honestly.

I read the Warrington Chairman's comment about "sweating" his clubs assets in regard to making maximum use of their stadium but the Swinton Chairman knows too that his fan base is like ours ageing (it,ll happen to you ) and getting to Warrington on the bus from Swinton takes too long and fans would have to pay for rail travel as it is outside the Greater Manchester area.

With regard to the discussion about the day we will play'we will have to wait till the fixtures are out imo and I honestly think most of our home games will be on Sunday afternoons.

Thank You to both Alan and Demon for their replies.

I can completely understand TV games being moved, however I find it difficult to accept that the RFL will dictate our game days and could insist that (purely as an example) a Sunday 3pm Leigh v Halifax game is switched to a Friday night game.

That would depend on whether anyone objects to the draft fixtures.

Well i hope they are on Sundays apart from tv Thursdays because i will buy my season ticket again as last year was the first time i hadn't for about 26 years

Sundays seem to be the best all round. Do you think the club tried to play some of the top teams on a friday evening last year to try and disrupt the opponents flow? Maybe if the opponents were having to travel from Yorkshire, M62 is a pain in the early evening as we all know and if some of them have had to work in the morning / early afternoon first perhaps? Might sound like having a minimal impact but im sure things like thay may come into consideration.

I think players at Championship level these days tend to have a healthy relationship with their employers with regards to time off etc when you consider the TV games plus when clubs other than ourselves also play on Friday nights etc. We could do with working out a way to disrupt Fev's flow though (and Sheffield in play off games!)

One thing puzzles me having looked at the Spectator Survey, and that is despite what I read on the message board and the general perception, according to the survey, on average, Sunday had lower attendances, than Fridays, Thursday having the highest, there is even a little graph to demonstrate it.
It is also interesting to note that just over 3/4 of people completing the survey prefered Sundays, but the attendance figures just don't support it.
I can see this one rumbling on for some time, and just for clarification, I'm also one of those people that prefer Sundays, but I haven't been a naysayer about Fridays, I believe the club has to do what it has to do to keep going forward and if that if Friday as well as Sunday games, so be it.

Does seem strange and I'm not sure how the survey comes to that conclusion.
Between 2006 and 2011 when the data is collected what Fri night games have we played in the league as I can't remember any ?
So I wonder is the data in the survey classing the Bank Holiday Friday fixtures as higher averages or the TV games moved to Thursdays (which usually see's our most attractive fixture played/moved).

For me its only when you do like for like league fixtures that you get a true picture so roughly we probably lost around £18,000 in gate money from the attendance drop in 3 like for like fixtures last season from the season previous with a same win/loss ratio than the previous season (2 fixtures moved Sunday to Friday and 1 moved Thursday to Friday).

I think the move to Sunday will hopefully start to halt our small attendance slide but equally its not just Fridays that cost us to lose fans last season, lots of things out of the clubs control have happened with many fans fed up with how RL has been run.
The club will need to recognise that element of (pretty loyal) fans that have left and try and get them back as missing the RL 'fix' will bite some of them but just as important we need to get much needed new and young support in.
Equally as much talk next season focussing on purely our league, our players and on field events perhaps not focus on the I BeLeighve/ SL plans as much - have it in the background as its our ultimate goal but lets get the groundwork right first and ensure we are the best Championship club on & off the park next season with a increase in support that with playing on a choosen 'match day' can hopefully help us achieve.

With more people picking and chosing games more than before you could analyse a little deeper and look at who we played on the Friday's and who the Sunday fixtures were against. Will that help in this discussion? I don't know because i haven't looked.......yet.

That's a fair point. It wouldn't have mattered to fans who attend all or most matches but it would have affected the fans who choose to attend the more attractive games. Most of the Sunday home game were in the less attractive category so the gate suffered in comparison.

I still like the 6.30pm Sat night option when the weatrher picks up, say May onwards, 3pm Sunday as option 2.