What a bad decision, thats 3 of us not going now

Perhaps Bradford think that they will get a bigger total crowd on a friday night given that on sunday it is the final round of the premiership football season (season deciders perhaps). I would have thought that the home team team chooses the date & time of the match.

It has to be agreed by the two clubs and the RFL, but I think both have certainly got an eye on the recovery time before their next games when choosing to play on the Friday.

A poor decision by whoever agreed to it on behalf of Leigh IMO.
Quite a few quid will be lost off a shared gate as I would have expected Leigh to take there biggest away following for 5 years to this game building on the recent momentum/feel good factor.
Equally I would imagine a few Bradford fans would have looked at this as a potential banna skin worth turning up to watch or at the very least a close match until the last 10mins.

For future games I think the RFL need to stipulate that if you have part time v full time in the CC the game must be on a saturday or sunday to at least allow players who work to perform to there best and fans who want to watch what usually is the clubs biggest fixture of the year the chance to get to it.

what a steaming pile of s%%t this decison is, if we have agreed to it we deserve everything w eget, friday night in bradford just fooking brilliant, can you tell i am a wee bit pis&&d off with this.

But the priority out of the two games that week is the Widnes game, so if the two days extra preparation is the difference needed to beat the Smoggies then so be it, I reckon.

there is simply no question of me not attending, if it were 4 in the morning i'd be in attendance, i understand the widnes game situation, but nobody will ever convince me that friday night is the time to play rl games.

omg, just realised, not only a friday in bradford, but the real possibility it could be our first game in 13 years under a conservative government, it gets worse as i think about it.

oh ye of little faith
rugby league rules state that home teams dictate day and time of kick off and visiting team has to abide. this is from experience with reserve team fixtures from years ago. lets just get on with it and prove how good we really are.

Well the 250 mile trip back from Portsmouth aint going to put me off attending, far from it actually. I think a few of you need to stop dripping about the Friday night decision and get on with! Anyway with Utd playing Stoke on Sunday it would have stopped a few of my mates going to the game had it been played that day.

its a cack day to play!!!

thats another day i have too book off. RL should start thinking about me midweeks game a pain in the back side

friday night game 400 leythers max!!

Even though I am retired and on a fixed income I shall be there.

I cannot understand why we would have a poor following when we played Dewsbury away on a Wednesday in the NRC we had a good number of fans there.

How long does it take to drive from Leigh to Bradford ? Coaches could leave at 6-30pm and get there in plenty of time and quite honestly most folk would be home from work at that time on a Friday.

I think we will take more than 400.

In order to pay the prices and make the trip I think the least the fans can expect is some assurances from our club that we'll field our best possible side. There is the risk of injury in any game but Widnes seem a pretty average team so I'm not concerned about us not turning them over the following week.

I could be starting a new job next week so if I got that I doubt I'd make the trip. I had every intention of going had it been on a Sunday. I've no idea why they've switched the game but they've done themselves out of some good away support and revenue.

Seems admission is a tenner no idea re concessions.