You're nice you are.

I won't, I'm not daft enough to just book the one day trip, nor am I daft enough to rely on a third party for my transport when I'm there - four days including car hire is the way we've always done it and I'll bet it works out cheaper than paying for the Sat/Sun flights too.

Aye I suppose you're right, curse those who are going Friday-Sunday and not swerving work on Monday, what a stupid error to make.

You know it makes sense.

As ideas go its a bit waaaay out there but they could always book a day's holiday for the Monday.

Still not sure where Wakey fit into it all though.

Of course, how stupid of our supporters.

No fault of Cats but this is unacceptable.

I agree. On both counts, but certainly the latter - Wakey may have awful facial hair but they can't be heldd responsible for fixture date changes for games they're not even involved in.

I think its disgraceful that they're even brought into it.



By the way, that idea of yours, the one about taking a days holiday...

Genius that was, Genius.

I don't know what your fascination with Wakefield is all about, this is about Quins and Cats

Oh dear, you're having your pants pulled down and don't even know it!!

Wakefield scored 50 today you know?

kinky

Jokes on you

I love it when you're in the airport on the way home and the airports always abreviated as Leeds-Bra.

You've got muddled up. You say its not about Wakey then in the very same sentence say it is.



Some of you Hars seem confused.

Right I'll try to get away from the pedantic fools on here.
I know I would be well and truly pee'd off if Leeds game had been changed in this way.
It is not always possible to implement the supposed genius idea of an extra days holiday.
Plus changing flights and an extra day is sometimes beyond peoples budget.
Changing the occasional game here in the uk is acceptable but to change the South of France game is ridiculous

Seriously - flying out on Thursday or Friday and back again on Monday is, far, far cheaper, by a factor of at least 10, than flying out on Sat and back on Sun.

The total bill for our flights the last time we went was £60 return.

The extra nights accom was £26

It just takes a little bit of thought before you book, and to say that you can't book one extra days holiday from work when you have 28 days in law is just ridiculous, WTF do you do with all your holidays ?

At short notice it is not always possible to do this when all arrangements have been made.
So when making arrangements you have to factor in the possibility that Sky may decide to show the game a day later



For Sky to do this when most people will have already made plans is just not on and the fans come a big second to the whims of Sky TV.

I'll bet they wouldn't have done this to a better supported club, with all due respect to Quins fans.

It may cost less for more when booking BUT I'll bet if you have to change details NOW it doesn't

That Rohipol for you!! Without it I would still be a virgin!!






PS

The above is a joke before the flak starts to fly my way!! I only want to be liked!!

I did the weekend trip last year (out Saturday / back Sunday) and at the time of booking (around 3 months before departure), as I had the option to fly out earlier, the prices were not significantly different for a weekday flight as compared to a weekend flight. Certainly not 'by a factor of 10' as you suggest. I've paid roughly the same amount this year to fly out on a Wednesday and come back on a Monday, as I did last year to fly Sat / Sun. I paid round about £100 return in total with Ryanair of which a sizeable chunk (60% ?) of that is tax to keep our MPs or MEPs in expenses for another few days.

Last year's game fell during school terms and thus, it was possible for the son of one of my mates to go to the game by flying out on the Saturday and coming back later on Sunday afternoon. In his case, he had one of those old fashioned parents that believes that every day of school is important and he wanted him back there Monday morning .... Which a weekend trip delivered, but would not have been possible otherwise.

Back to the original point with this game, I would suggest that the reason it is being 'tried on' with the Quins is the relatively low numbers of fans perceived to be travelling. I remember during the Catalans first season, there was a lot more chopping & changing of game times and venues (Figures ? Carcassone ?) and there was much protesting by the fans of those teams affected by those changes. IIRC, significant changes wern't done after that for a good couple of seasons until now.

We could argue that our game has been messed around, with at least three different kick-off times published. Thankfully, none of them have affected most people's travel plans (I'm not heading back on the overnight train to Paris this time

), but on the very lowest level the excessive mucking about of kick-off times makes the game look unprofessional. Our away games to Quins are habitually messed around, making it impossible for the independant travelling fan to get back by public transport due to later kick offs and the last trains back from London on Saturdays.

If the RFL truely cares about the supporters of the game in general, it really should be stepping in and refusing to sanction changes to games for television that involves the swapping of dates / venues either within a certain window (say 3 months for Catalan games against English sides both ways) or having the bottle to say 'Non' to the TV company concerned. Maybe it should be looking for a deal that is good for the game (which includes it supporters) with clauses covering the changing of fixtures, rather that just having its eyes fill up by the number of Euros it can screw from the deal.

Maybe in truth, the travelling support or fans at games is commentary to the needs of the RFL ? Given the lack of organisation, zero marketing and massive amounts of empty seats at televised big games in the past, finally the game might be heading to the prophetic statement of jovial Jack Mysercough the Leeds RL chairman of the late 60s ? He is reputed to have said something to the effect of (with regards to tv rights money) [i"Pay us enough and we won't even bother having the fans in"[/i

If the RFL wants the Catalans project to be a success and also maybe develop other sides in France, not to mention the Eur.5 million the supporters seem to have added to the local economy, then it better not kill the goose that lays the somewhat golden egg ....

By the way, the Cas Vs Cats game has been moved from Sunday afternoon to Saturday evening to pander to Sky TV ... Have you contacted the RFL or jammed the message boards with regards to potential messing about of their fans travel plans ?

Disagree. We are not all in jobs where we can do that.

I feel incredibly sorry for the Harlequins fans that this has happened to, and I think I would be sending my bill to the RFL.

Wow, a sensible post





I've just booked a flight to Germany, it was cheaper to go on the Saturday than it was on the Friday. I will be contacting the airline informing them of their mistake as McLaren_Field, who obviously knows everything, tells me travelling on a Saturday should be 10x as expensive. I'm only going for the weekend but I might take the day off Uni on Monday incase my friend decides to disappear and I miss out on my reason for visiting.

Well said Emma. Its nice to see there is some sense left on this forum. No doubt you will be branded a or something which seems like the "cool" thing to do on here for those who don't agree with the clique of regular posters

Now we know the whole post was a lie.

Still reeling from embarrassing yourself with your clueless post towards the start of the thread?