Sky are potentially changing the dates of the broadcast games of the first weekend of August to Thursday & Friday

Our game is of course London away on the Monday night on Sky...

Already booked the train tickets, but will hold fire on the hotels for the time being

no regard for fans again for them that have booked a days holiday to go and transport,it happened to quite few of us a few years ago catalans away in july fixtures came out for a saturday game by the end of the week it had changed to the sunday for sky tv,fans had to re arrange flights and hotels again

Same here. All booked up and ready to go.

Gits.

If they want to show something on Thursday then looking at the fixtures move Wakey vs Bradford from Sunday to Thursday. That would mean the London game doesn't get shown then on tv but the above will probably be a closer more even contest anyway and not a big upheaval for travelling fans.

CONFIRMED

Thursday 1st Aug, 8pm kick off

So, we have Wakey away on the Monday night, then away at that London on the Thursday??

What a load of crap.

That's been moved to Friday night

Sky no longer needs a meaningless Super League schedule filler on the evening of Monday 5th August as it plans to show the more meaningful Preston V Blackpool in the 1st Round of the Capital One Cup that evening instead.

Given some of the games recently that's a good choice.....

Awful treatment of fans who may have booked the monday tuesday off work, hotels & transport there only to move it to thursday, absolute disgrace. Sympathies.

Absolute , already got train tickets booked which I don't think I can transfer or cancel

Cheers


Train was pretty cheap but still.....

What a bunch of B4stards, there are seven of us that have booked Monday and Tuesday off and booked a hire car

Sorry for all you guys who took the trouble to book trains and time off. Worst case we had was when our game in Perpignan got moved from Saturday to Sunday with the kick off when the Sunday flight was leaving. Should ensure the lowest ever crowd for a Leeds game in London just to cap of our appalling season.

Even though I'm pleased because i can now go to the game, this is absolutely disgusting for those who have already booked for this. It was bad enough shifting this game to Monday, without then moving it again.

For the record - the only reason your London trip has been picked is because Sky have only been to London once this season and by coverage quota have to show every team at home at least twice. Thats why they are insisting on it being shown.

Id rather they didnt show us this season!

Had the Monday booked off work - absolutely no chance of getting the Thursday off. Suppose I'll have to miss this one.

Would wish the clubs would stand up Sky and the RFL and say no, its planned for monday, we play it monday.

I wasnt going, but its disgusting treatment of the fans who already have trains and hotels booked for the trip.

To the person who had train tickets booked, your right, non refundable.

The clubs can't "stand up" to Sky, neither can the RFL.

The Sky contract (IIRC) has a clause built in that gives them the right to pick any game they want from Round 15 onwards and move it from the scheduled date to whenever suits them.

The clubs have taken the money and bent over. They can't complain if their fans subsequently get shafted.

Don't like it? Cancel your Sky subscription in protest. Otherwise, they won't care.

We all know who calls the shots , but whoever negotiates the deals with sky need to do better , get more money and compensate the fans who are getting ripped off.

It wasn't. I paid for 4 train tickets, all in first class.

Don't know if to cut my losses or still go see the capital at the weekend. One things for sure, I don't think I can be arrssed to go down Thrusday too.

Just don't think I will bother in future booking in advance, happened one too many times has this malarkey.

I'll go sunday, if that is a defoo?

And exactly how many sports channels do Sky have ?

They could show the football on one, the rugby league on another, the Ashes channel and still have space for something else on the 4th ....

The problem is with advanced pre-booked tickets, there's no chance of selling them on via a secondary market such as Ebay either.

I'm so sick / bored / tired of the endless messing about with fixtures, this decision is about the final straw for me as I waste yet more money on useless travel tickets because of the whim of someone at the RFL and / or Sky.

It is inconvenient enough when they change home games, but I think it is now the time to just stop my away travel full stop. No hassle of trying to get to Warrington away next week, no problems having to get to Salford's new ground and forget the hours waiting for the car park to open after games at Wigan.

For those of you that know me, this is some decision.

I've watched Leeds for the best part of 30 years, just about all of my adult life. There was a period when the total number of games I missed over a 12 year period was about five in total (one league game, a couple of hastily arranged pre-season friendlies and the World Club Challenge games in Australia), but enough is enough.

Times are tough and I can't afford to keep wasting money like this, so as a customer who is being shabbily treated by their current supplier, I am going to exercise my right to take my 'recreation pound' elsewhere. I have spent less time on Southstander this season than perhaps at any time since I joined and frankly, since I have other recreational interests (something that is pretty well scheduled and not affected by the whim of a TV broadcaster) I am going to spend the time that I would have otherwise gone to matches, on my other activities thank-you-very-much. Good luck to the RFL's marketing budget to try to coax me back.

My gut feeling right now even possibly extends to telling the RFL to get lost for World Cup tickets too.

Perhaps a sustained boycott of either all away games or perhaps one fixture, such as London Away, might make people sit up and take notice. I know we as a sport need a tv broadcast contract and I know that a Monday night in London was a shabby choice to start with, but everyone made the sort of noises that the game would be on that night and by getting my backside down to the Capital, I felt that not only was I doing my bit to support my team but also a little for the development of the game in London.

I was going to make a special journey to Leeds tomorrow (I live elsewhere these days) to secure my tickets / travel for most of the rest of the season. I'm not going to bother now, furthermore I'll probably send my Wakefield away match ticket (a game that has already been changed three times since the original date) back.

I'll continue to watch Leeds at home (which even that has diminished as a social occasion with the demolition of the Supporters Club, only to be replaced with the opportunity to stand around on sub zero tarmac fending off hypothermia as an alternative) and have my annual game at the Cup Final. Pretty much anything else is up for negotiation.

The announcement via Twitter, late on a Friday afternoon also smacks of a good time to bury bad news. Anyone remember once-upon-a-time, the likes of the club's esteemed media manager coming on here to answer question ? Ah ! If only those days were available now....

In business terms, if the RFL can afford to cheese off a 'loyal' customer like me, then gawd help retaining the more fickle fans.