Re: Draw : Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:56 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

You take out all your fans who play or coach in the men's community game with a Saturday afternoon kick off. Plus on that weekend you'd be up against the Grand National as well which may decrease the crowd slightly too.

Does a Sunday not make it slightly more difficult for anyone involved in the junior game as well?

Friday night could have been another option. For me, Sunday afternoon at Cas is just pointless.

Re: Draw : Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:00 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Does a Sunday not make it slightly more difficult for anyone involved in the junior game as well?

Friday night could have been another option. For me, Sunday afternoon at Cas is just pointless.

Do they not usually postpone the amateur calendar on cup weekends, long time since I coached/played but they did use to have free weeks for cup game weekends

Re: Draw : Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:03 pm  

Warrior Winger wrote:

Do they not usually postpone the amateur calendar on cup weekends, long time since I coached/played but they did use to have free weeks for cup game weekends

Absolutely no idea.

ATEOTD the pro game shouldn't be pivoting around the amateur game. Stick it on a Saturday PM, put a deal on for a ticket and a coach and take a bucket load of rowdy fans over to the jungle.

Re: Draw : Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:59 pm  

Warrior Winger wrote:

Do they not usually postpone the amateur calendar on cup weekends, long time since I coached/played but they did use to have free weeks for cup game weekends

No there’s a full set of fixtures. We get blank weekends for the cup final, magic weekend and bank holidays normally but that’s it.

Re: Draw : Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:07 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

You take out all your fans who play or coach in the men's community game with a Saturday afternoon kick off. Plus on that weekend you'd be up against the Grand National as well which may decrease the crowd slightly too.

Good point about the National, would've knocked a few off the crowd. Sundays fine by me.

Re: Draw : Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:43 am  

There's also football. As much as some wish to deny it, quite a few folk that watch RL also watch football. Leeds Utd are at home on Sat 13th, and I would imagine a lot of the footy-loving folk in Castleford will probably follow Leeds.

Sunday afternoon is, IMHO, the ideal time. Perhaps the tickets are still a bit pricey though for what is, in effect, a "bonus" game.