New Start Date For Season?? : Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:59 pm  

Matt Shaw reporting that clubs are expected to vote through a proposal to start the season on weekend of 20/21 March.
22 game league season.Play every club once and 9 loop fixtures to be determined by league finishing positions in 2019.
Chall Cup,1895 Cup and Summer Bash all anticipated to still be included in revised fixture list.

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:14 pm  

Why have a cup nobody cares about and cut intothe league season?

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:53 pm  

Loop fixtures...

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:36 pm  

20th March still feels ambitious to me.

[Bullseye]

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:54 am  

I can see that date slipping.

[Pumpetypump]

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:27 am  

I suppose they'd be under fire if they didn't even attempt to develop a fixture structure and start date. But like people are saying, that may be optimistic.

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:39 pm  

M@islebugs wrote:

Why have a cup nobody cares about and cut intothe league season?

does seem daft doesn't it. Dropping 1895 cup and summer bash this year would pretty much allow for a normal 26 game season playing everyone home and away. Maybe have to squeeze a couple of mid week games in somewhere but avoids farcical loop fixtures.

[Bullseye]

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:06 am  

They'll need to slip in a few midweek games as games inevitably get postponed due to covid outbreaks.

[Bulliac]

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:29 am  

They have to do something, doing nothing isn't an option. Whether this is the right thing is anybody's guess, but it will do for starters and then we/they can see how how it flies.

Re: New Start Date For Season?? : Mon Jan 18, 2021 12:40 pm  

The football league is instructing clubs to not expect any fans back in grounds this season. So I can't see Rugby getting any fans till at least June as this is the earliest opportunity after the end of the football season.