and I'm looking forawrd to it again. I always do enjoy me Leigh trip - I just enjoy it much much more on a Sunday, in the sun with a couple of jars and talking sheeite for an hour to anyone who'll listen rather than having to 'leg it' over the hill like a numpty after work on a thursday evening!!
But as we are in rupert's pocket........

So, as a compromise, one gets Good Friday at home and the other gets the other Bank Holiday at home, with the two switching for the following season - that ran for several seasons in the NFP if memory serves me right where the two alternated between Boxing Day and Good Friday?

Total sense - or "common sense" which I didn't see because I am lacking it appears.
So why give fixture lists in advance to clubs only for clubs to be ignored? What did RFL say in response? Did we seek the other 3 clubs involved in these possible changes to back it? Surely we would need to do that, otherwise its stalemate.

I think last seasons game against Fev was the highlight of last season my me. The game build up knowing we are battling for top of table - great atmosphere and game.

As I put earlier , do they [ RFL ] actually want Championship clubs to increase their attendances and their income streams ?

I seriously have my doubts , and I find myself questioning my sanity making such a seemingly ridiculous statement

But in all honesty it is the only conclusion I can reach , they do not want a Championship made up of clubs with support bases that can in any way challenge any club in the tier above

They want us to remain where we are and to struggle financially , they know that at the level we are at there will always be somebody willing to keep us ticking along , this allows them to bring through who they want in the future

Walt Mooney Fan Club - Do you know if RFL force derbies on days the clubs don't want? Or just maybe clubs request this. There is no point say W1gan wanting a Good Friday and Saints turn around and say they want Warrington.
Now I ask you did Leigh and Widnes together ask for a "common sense" fixture? Yes or no? I suspect you don't know, like me and most on here.
Did Leigh and the other 3 clubs contact each other to agree to move to a "common sense" fixture of Leigh/Widnes on Good Friday? Yes or no? Again I supsect you don't know, like me and most on here.

Absolute rubbish. The very least we do is keep them clubs in SL on their toes. A club is coming down from SL, and more than likely Widnes will be replacing them. Having strong clubs outside SL ready to replace a SL club is a absolute must.

Thank you Jenky for some more "common sense" there. I didn't think of that to be honest

Yes it is , best tell the RFL then , because they dont want it , it would seem , if it is because of the TV games , then the sooner the TV deal ends the better

how long is it since we had regular local derbies at easter?.
how long have the CC leagues been on sky?.

You're just being paranoid Steve - why would a sport that allowed it's Chief Exec to tell bare-faced lies in a television interview do something so devious??

Someone has posted on here that we have Barrow, on Good Friday. I believe we are actually Barrow's 'local derby'!

There are other problems surrounding the Easter fixtures. For example, with eleven teams, two are going to miss out on an Easter fixture. (one on Friday, one on Monday) If those teams happen to have an away game as their sole Easter fixture, there will be no revenue from Easter gates for them. Let's hope we aren't playing a team on Monday, who has had a blank date on the Friday! Also, with Toulouse in the mix, someone will cop for a bad Easter if they are travelling over there, and playing a second game as well - as we found out last year!

As for the Widnes game, we were due to play there on a couple of consecutive Good Fridays, in recent seasons, but had to move to Thursday, for Sky.

All that said, I still think we could have requested/been given an Easter game with Widnes!