Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:33 am  

E.S.O wrote:

In which case we'd have ended up playing Monday/Wednesday which wouldn't have been very enjoyable.

No, we wouldn't. We'd probably have played Fev this week or last week, wouldn't we ?

The fixture plan came out nearly a year ago. You can only base your decisions on the information you have at the time.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:00 pm  

To say we've fit an extra game in this week, the spacing has been quite kind to be fair. Sunday/Thursday/Wednesday/Sunday isn't bad at all.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:30 pm  

Going back to the Challenge Cup why are the playing it now when the football season has started and very close to the end of the season. Would it make more sense to have it in the middle of July when there is no other sporting events on, it would attract higher TV Viewing figures and could attract more fans to the sport.Also there was also a gap of 2 months from the qtr finals to semi finals which i though at the time was a bit strange

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:31 pm  

sorry i meant 2 month gap between 5th round to qtr finals

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:37 pm  

Charlie has been up all night debating ,and ive come up with the decision to predict a seagulls win , this is difficult to predict , but it must be chosen to see who finshes top of the tree , I like to cheer my choice and will choose wisely later but feel it can happen later today .

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:20 pm  

duggs413 wrote:

Going back to the Challenge Cup why are the playing it now when the football season has started and very close to the end of the season. Would it make more sense to have it in the middle of July when there is no other sporting events on, it would attract higher TV Viewing figures and could attract more fans to the sport.Also there was also a gap of 2 months from the qtr finals to semi finals which i though at the time was a bit strange

It all depends on when the BBC have time to show it.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:31 pm  

I could understand last year with the olympics but what live sport has the bbc shown this year !!

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:12 pm  

Well a win is a win, i was not particularly impressed with the performance. several times throughout the match i thought we could be heading for a shock defeat but when we had our chances we were ruthless. Hats off to Hunslet they battled all the way and deserved their bonus point (their 12th this year !!) I wish them good luck in there last game which happens to be at home to Featherstone !!!

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:23 pm  

Hunslet came out fighting to void relegation, which I believe they did with the bonus point. Eagles came out with next Wednesday on their minds or maybe they just played badly. They have after all, with the 2 Cup runs, played more matches than anyone else, many at the back end of the season so maybe the odd poor game isn't so surprising and at least they won.

Re: Official Match Thread - Eagles v Hunslet : Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:13 am  

Wasn't vintage but good win in the end - credit to Hunslet they were excellent, much better than when we played them earlier in the season.

We've won every home league game this season. Fantastic achievement.