6 weeks with no home fixtures,the football grubs still in charge of the stadium and pearson continous to do sweet fa.

Not one Thursday night away match for the entire year! (for now). Now can it please hurry up and be February already

Still haven't seen any confirmation that SKY will show more than 2 games a week on TV, the rest may be red button and streaming. They may want some Saturday afternoon content as Football has a 3pm Saturday blackout.

Looks like 2 live Sky games a week with the rest been streamed .

https://twitter.com/WarringtonRLFC/stat ... b-Ocg&s=19 Had a chuckle at this from Wire

https://twitter.com/WarringtonRLFC/stat ... b-Ocg&s=19 Had a chuckle at this from Wire

Only dates that we need to look at are the Challenge Cup and Grand final

I would say its more like IMGs think tank working its magic once again

Hull KR supporters "fume" at number of Thursday night TV games. I guess that's the price of success.

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quite happy with our fixtures, normally i have to book numerous days off for saturday and sunday games, upto now i only have to book 3 games off, even when Sky start swapping and changing fixtures after round 16!

The six again is a mockery but at least teams are going to be punished for abusing it.

Rules changes:

"Rugby League Live can reveal that from next season, a team will concede a regulatory penalty, rather than a six again, for any offence that takes place in the opposition's own 40-metre area. As an example, if a defender is too slow at releasing a player when the attacking team is within 40 metres of their own try line, a penalty shall be called, rather than a six again, as has been the case in recent years. Set restarts will be given in the remaining area of the field.

The change has been made to stop teams from purposely holding down at the start of a tackle count, which allows the defensive line to take shape at the expense of having to make one extra tackle. It is a rule change that will likely be well received by supporters, who have regularly voiced their annoyance when the tactic has been used by teams.

But it is one of several changes that have been made, all with a focus on cleaning up the ruck from next season. Moving forward, there will be a clampdown on incorrect play the balls with players now being warned that they must make a genuine attempt to touch the ball with their foot.

From next year, players must regain their feet and have no other body part in contact with the ground. It is the ball carrier's responsibility to not place the ball on the defender and make a genuine attempt to contact the ball on their foot".

I would have scraped the 6 again rule completely .

It would appear that the televising of all fixtures next season will see two games featured on Sky and the other four on a rfl subscription platform rather like what happened in the past on Our League and it would be nice to think that a portion of the income from that would go to the relevant participating clubs, however I guess thats unlikely. The game appears to be in a bit of a mess at present with the Salford news yesterday and this morning a Club Chairman coming out and openly criticising the Board of the RFL in the media and IMG who he says have graded his club without even visiting it.

To be fair, for objective assessments based on data, why would IMG need to visit any club?

It’s not like last time with the independent assessments when somebody presumably mooched around Odsal, had lunch, decided SL needs Bradford… “B?”

This has got to be better than a system influenced by whether a Club Chairman and assessor have a shared interest in philately or fondness for pickled eggs or go back years and years.

(To be fair, even if the criteria raised a few suspicions last time, the assessments themselves didn’t cause it to fail).

Another thing from nrl

Captains challenge is nonsense aswell makes the game to stop start from random guesses hoping to win the challenge

It's rugby league not tennis

It looks to me that the RFL haven't bothered to stagger the games kick off times throughout the weekend , Seems a bit stupid as many fans would probably watch one game after another increasing viewers and possible income rather than fans just picking one game out of three 8 o'clock kick offs .