A farce? Why does it make a difference?

The only fixture that affects anything is the Bash/Magic one, because it's an "extra". Every other fixture doesn't really matter when it is, you have to play them at some point anyway.

May be a small argument for when travelling to France/Canada, but other than that, it makes very little difference.

Think it's really more a matter of finance - home games equate to income and away ones to expense, so a more even income stream is better than the opposite.

This my point. Surely we someone can organise the fixtures so we don't have one home game in 2 months.

at least that fixture we can be assured of bumper crowd with the hordes of travelling London fans

But it evens out. No home games in a long stretch means a lot of home games in a different stretch. I appreciate clubs living hand to mouth may struggle a little, but after Round 23, you've had the same amount of home and away games regardless of when they were played, and the same income over the period. I don't really see an issue.

Cash Flow - simple as that.

Any idea if there are plans to televise Championship games next year or are we still on black out?

Actually I've seen a few rumours kicking around that Sky might actually be toying with the idea of showing some championship games this year. Fingers crossed they do, although what that would mean in terms of additional revenue I don't know. The champ clubs would be quite within their right to demand some, but no doubt the SL chairmen would object.

If they are gonna show fixtures, they need to get it sorted pretty quickly or run the risk of annoying fans with last minute kick off changes

Looking over the fixture list again I notice we're down to play Featherstone twice at home, firstly on the 12th of Feb and again on the 11 th of june, I wonder if Fev know about this? There is a separate away match listed so they haven't missed that out.

On a serious note, which fixtures are you looking at that has that error?

The one on page 1 of this thread, which appears to be a 'lift' from the Bulls' website.

Ah yes, I hadn't even looked at that! It wouldn't be a fixture publish without at least one either wrong or moved within a day or two of the fixtures being announced.

Oldham at home for us on 12th Feb

Yeah we actually have Rochdale, it's just a misprint on that particular image.

Sync the fixtures with some calendar of your choice https://www.stanza.co/@bradford_bulls#/v1/

Sync the fixtures with some calendar of your choice https://www.stanza.co/@bradford_bulls#/v1/

Batley away on 15th Jan away, should be a good test for us.

Batley away in January? Thermals a must!

Don't really get the point of playing one of our rivals as a pre-season friendly? Perhaps nobody from SL or Championship 1 were available?

Should give us a decent yardstick of where we are before the real thing starts.

To be honest I'd rather we play the likes of Batley in Pre-season. It will give us a better test and besides, it's not like we can hide our cards and surprise our rivals on game day anymore anyway. £3 a month and they can watch all our games in full on BullsTV and analyse us to their hearts content.

Especially as Disko got a flavour of Rohan's philosophy so will include some it in his way of doing things at Batley, Last seasons match's will only provide some info on how certain players operate as individuals, the way the latest Bulls squad plays will be different due to the changes in personnel, The match is probably a thanks to Disko from the Club for all his good work, weather permitting of course

true but there's still another 4 competitive matches before we play Batley that they'll be able to watch online before we come up against them. Setting Batley aside a second, the same applies whoever our 'rivals' happen to be in a particular season. You can't exactly hide the way we play anymore unless we're going to mix it up each game or for a particular game. If nothing else they could go old school and actually send someone to our games. I think playing your direct rivals is Pre-Season is a better idea than just battering some team in a lower league. It give you much better preparation.

they work, but whilst coming out with more points than the opposition in these games games is always nice, it isn't the vitally important bit. I think also, that whatever "secrets"we give away by showing our moves and players to the opposition, we also gain by seeing theirs. It's chiefly a hit out and valuable simply for that really.

On reflection, I can see the argument for playing Batley, and if its a 'thank you' to Diskin, then that's cool.

It's not that I've anything against Batley, it's more that I got bored of seeing the same teams over and over this year - granted it was Dewsbury, Halifax, Sheffield, rather than Batley per se.

It would have been good to play someone a bit different than a team that we might play three times next season anyway. That's why it will good to have the game against Keighley - its just someplace different to go and watch a game.