Good effort GF- hopefully someone will take notice

Yeah thanks Gutters. Well done for all your efforts.

I have been to Cats a couple of times but due to work commitments
not for a year or so. I would certainly have gone this year but for a long since booked family holiday.
Its a scandal that a Cats home game be moved in such circumstances.
Its bad enough when it happens over here as in the Hull KR game but
the RFL have to abide by what the paymasters tell them.Dont get me wrong I am no apologist for the RFL as anybody who knows me will testify.
But thats another story...........

Just been looking at the "fixtures" [ Sat 18 Jul 8:00 SL Catalans Dragons v Harlequins Stade Gilbert Brutus

Were I as committed as Alison, I'd email them to suggest they fix it, but quite honestly I can't be bothered.

I have emailed Chris Irvine who writes the Times Blog and Rammo to see if he can do a feature on the show. Will also try and contact Real Radios RL show (I think Tomorrow) to bring it up.

It's terrible we have load of people who are shafted. Someone should let Superleague know that even though they give loads more time for the start times of fixtures than the NRL, they should publish their fixtures in the same way as the NRL ie. List the fixture as weekend of. That way atleast no-one would have booked stuff so far in advance like our poor buggers did.

go to the NRL website/ fixtures/ then look at Round 21 to see what I mean.

Has anyone had replies from the RFL, Sky or anyone else yet?

Have received a reply from The RFL....IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS WAS RECEIVED AND POSTED TO THE WEBSITE rlHERErl.

I have replied to the RFL that I am mailing every club, the RL press, Sky sports and a few others with the result of the poll on the VT in the hope that this never happens again.

Did that math on Wires support there last season. 2,000 fans, £250 each...£500k....I can just see Andy Gatcliffe taking that on the chin

Same as GF to which I have replied what a patheitc response for such a game.

At least the club have told us that they have raised concerns and are still working on it. Why they didn't say this at the outset and alleviate the (perhaps unjustified) perception that the club had left us out to dry is beyond me.

Because not a single one of them has a clue about PR.

If the club is paying anyone to deal with PR they should be sacked right now, they are not doing their job.

Think I will move to the same planet they live on - cloud cuckoo land, it seems a totally oblivious, happy place to be. I have been on an on about a statement being issued and then they come out with crass like 'we are sympathetic' 'we hope it doesn't stop your enjoyment' get real losing a vast amount of money stopped the enjoyment. Some people saved for weeks for this trip.

TOO LITTLE - TOO LATE - IT'S ALMOST A WEEK SINCE THE UPSET

We need to 'buttonhole' both the Chairman & the GM about this.

Think we do have a PR but he certainly needs to be more 'pro-active'. The least he should do is 'advise' his Chairman and GM that they have a problem
with Perpignan bound supporters.

However, should mention that my experience of dealing with 'internal' PR cum Press Officers - as a now retired partner in Corporate Communications firm - is that they are often 'clueless' about the need to be 'proactive' & sometimes even aggressive in advising internal management. Thus would feel that one really should not kick the young man to hard!!

Might add I've sent a follow up e-mail to the RFL asking he a reply to our e-mails if even only as a matter of politesse!!

Must take issue with 'Rooster, Roster' and all other's who have cited NRL games.

Please note the followingRYAN AIR AND EASYJET ]]Who might add are no longer 'cheap' to use.

Also Eurostar?TGV are also not that easy to 'rebook' because of the heavy local Holiday i.e. 'frog' traffic.

To be fair the longer terms loser's are going to be the Dragons, the local establishments in & around the town and the local Maries and regional authorities. Forecast there will be at least a 30/40 percentage drop in fan visits from next season.

Edit BG

To be fair, the club and the RFL have effectively no say on this matter - what Sky says, goes and if we don't like it we do without them and their money. The only people who can spike their guns over re-arranged fixtures are the police and local authorities.

Not the point. AND I AM GETTING TIRED OF THIS!
What is at stake here is the fact that in future, RL fans will be unable to book cheap trips due to this uncertainty....now that SKY have proved they can do it.

Catalan have NEVER had a home fixture moved.......Catalan have always played on their, their local police, their local council and the best day...Saturday.
I suspect, that SKY decided to move this because of logistics getting truck down there and the fact it was little old quins....
all i want is for the people I have contacted to shake SKY's cage and let them know that if they do it again to a Warrington or Leeds, they will not increase their popularity along the M62 corridor.