Just don't get the drip feed of fixtures.......

I want to know when Catalans away is & home fixtures.

I know its only a day 'to wait' but just what does that achieve ????

Cynic in me suggests those 'in the know' already have flights & hotels booked !!!

Id imagine its so they have 3 days of media coverage and social media posts rather than 1, but whether it actually helps shift any more tickets is debatable

Was really hoping we avoided you lot in round 1, think you could be bang up for it and prove problematic, not necessarily on skill level but boy you should be up for it with newbies and last years ending ringing in your ears.

You are 3 weeks into pre season before we’ve even strapped our boots up. Perfect time to catch a team cold, like we did with Wigan this season.

hopefully get a strong crowd 20k + should be the aim with 3 months to market it

You've got as many "newbies"
Ins: Oliver Gildart (Leigh), Peta Hiku (North Queensland Cowboys), AJ Wallace (Bradford), Tyrone May (Catalans), Niall Evalds (Castleford), Jai Whitbread (Wakefield), Reiss Butterworth (Dewsbury), Kelepi Tanginoa (Wakefield)

And despite getting humiliated by Wigan when it mattered the thing ringing in your ears is the 100% commitment to silverware. A team your lot have rightly ridiculed for finishing 10th won't present any sort of challenge unfortunately.

Was me

So we now know the full fixture schedule for 2024.

R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
Challenge Cup Round of 16
R6
R7
Challenge Cup quarter-finals
R8
R9
R10
Challenge Cup semi-finals
R12
Challenge Cup final
R14
R15
Mid-season international
R16
R17
R18
R19
R20
R21
R22, Saturday, August 17
R23
R24
R25
R26

June and July looks to be the toughest run of fixtures for the season with a trip to Catalan end of July then a visit from St's following weekend in August just for good measure.

Looks like the pitch must be getting relaid in May with no home games in that month.

Plenty of Saturday fixtures again which I thought was ok last season .

Its great to see weekend fixtures again on Saturdays in particular, but you have to wonder with all the games being televised this year how that will work and when and how will they be spread over each weekend perhaps eventually we will see a true fixture list with adjustments for that fact.

How can we play rovers 3 times before we play Wigan once??

It is a strange one, you'd think that with all the technology available today they'd be able to have a fixture list where at the halfway stage every team would have played each other once.

Also worth noting we play our last home in April then we have no games in May and then the next home fixture in June is Leeds again.

Wigan are the same, play Leigh 3 times before they play rhinos once, we only play Salford in round 16 and round 26 too...just seems like another baffling/ incompetent decision by the RFL, by round 22 should have played everyone home and away once...then move onto the loop fixtures

I agree, you'd think they'd have all clubs playing each other home and away and then play the loop fixtures. The lopsided and stacked fixtures the RFL throw out probably doesn't help the game as a whole either.
We see it so many times that the fixtures always have clubs playing the same teams in quick succession whilst having huge gaps with other teams.

Even with the loop fixtures and other considerations/complications its certainly possible to have the fixtures for the 12 clubs to play each other more evenly spread.

Knowing the RFL they are using spreadsheets to work the fixtures lists or a ZX Spectrum

At 1st glance fixtures seem fairly spread out in terms of difficulty...but Hull are difficult to predict, if its a game against the top4 early in the season its maximum effort, Salford at home late in the season probably strolling about the field like its a friendly I hope and pray we sort out our end of season dropoffs!