No more Easter double headers? : Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:37 am  

Sky Sports reveal that the Easter Weekend double-header will NOT take place in 2023

Best for player welfare?
or a loss of tradition?

what do you lot think?

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:44 am  

Difficult to argue about player welfare. Higher intensity game these days. But I'd agree that the loss of tradition is upsetting, and Sky have no interest in that at all.

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:55 am  

Sky say jump…..:
This will have no to do with player welfare.

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sat Apr 23, 2022 11:36 am  

Not too concerned, myself.

I debated whether to bother with the Wakefield match on Monday, as I had other things to do and I'd already had my rugby fix for the weekend at Saints.

The game won out in the end, and I'm glad I went, but for a combination of both "Fan fatigue" and player welfare (see the Saints team last night) - I think the game is better off by dropping the extra match.

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sat Apr 23, 2022 1:45 pm  

Good - epsecially if they can make the missing game at the Magic Weekend - that way prevent teams playing each other ridiculous times in a season and some teams having to double up on harder games than others at Magic.

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:16 pm  

Pleased to see the back of it. Not bothered about Sky's motives; they are don't care about rugby league it's clear. But three games in a week doesn't result in high quality sport.

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sat Apr 23, 2022 8:05 pm  

we used to have it aswell at the xmas double header,,,,,plus 40 odd game seasons, with 4 cup comps

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sun Apr 24, 2022 9:40 am  

I’m up for scraping it just so I don’t have to listen to players moaning about it every single year

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sun Apr 24, 2022 4:35 pm  

Pieman wrote:

we used to have it aswell at the xmas double header,,,,,plus 40 odd game seasons, with 4 cup comps

Whilst some worked a proper job as well

Re: No more Easter double headers? : Sun Apr 24, 2022 4:38 pm  

exiled Warrior wrote:

Good - epsecially if they can make the missing game at the Magic Weekend - that way prevent teams playing each other ridiculous times in a season and some teams having to double up on harder games than others at Magic.

I'd rather scrap magic weekend tbh.