Does any body know why this game is on a thursday?

Because it's Easter and it's on Sky. Just like every other year.

End of thread.

Hetherington arranged it with the RFL in advance so that Bradford would have less time to prepare.

When was the last time it wasn't the Thursday tv game? Must be pre-SL. Saints v Wigan has always been the Friday one.

Nah, nobody does Tigertot quite like Tigertot...

I can't be sure, but I think that might be construed as a compliment.

IIRC the 2009 game was played on Good Friday - the 10-6 win

Yeah I think you're right.

Usually we're the Thursday match and Saints/Wigan the Friday, but they occasionally swap it around.

It's certainly no new thing to play on the Thursday before Easter though (whatever they call that day), so I'm not sure why it's such a shock to anyone this year. Unless of course they've never been before the cheap tickets.

Also just looked at 2003 - there doesn't seem to have been an Easter fixture there either......?

Maundy Thursday

Aye that's the one! I kind of thought it was that, but didn't want to put it in case it was wrong and I looked a tit. Sadly, I failed at the last bit anyway

If my memory serves me right, the reason it was swapped around in 2009 was because either Wigan or Saints were playying away at Catlans on Easter Monday thereofre the rfl deemed it fairer to allow them an extra 1/2 days rest / travel time.

Its not a shock, and iv been going since 2005, i dont mean just this year, but since it started, why a thursday?

Sky.

Got nothing to do with sky at all.

The RFL want to play 2 rounds of the league over the Easter period, and the only way to do that is not to play any games on the Saturday or Sunday to give teams enough turn around time. Sky show (at least) 2 games per round and so to fit in with their schedules always pull one game forward to Thursday and push one game back to Tuesday.

or at least thats how it used to work before they decided to stick the hull derby on good friday too. so they now show 3 games from 1st round and only 1 from 2nd round. They stopped showing tuesday game last year. Why they couldnt put hull derby on the monday and still show tuesday game is beyond me.

These are our Easter fixtures in super league

[u1996[/u
Sheffield (A) Good Friday
London (H) Easter Monday

[u1997[/u
Challenge Cup semi v Leeds on the Saturday

[u1998[/u
Leeds (H) Easter Sunday

[u1999[/u
Leeds (H) Thursday
Wakefield (A) Easter Monday

[u2000[/u
London (H) Good Friday

[u2001[/u
Wakefield (A) Good Friday
Wigan (H) Easter Monday

[u2002[/u
Hull FC (H) Thursday

[u2003[/u
Hull FC (H) Thursday

[u2004[/u
Leeds (A) Thursday
Saints (H) Monday

[u2005[/u
Leeds (H) Thursday
Saints (A) Monday

[u2006[/u
Leeds (A) Thursday
Huddersfield (H) Tuesday

[u2007[/u
Leeds (H) Thursday
Wakefield (A) Easter Monday

[u2008[/u
Leeds (A) Thursday
Quinn's (H) Easter Monday

[u2009[/u
Leeds (H) Good Friday
Wakefield (A) Easter Monday

[u2010[/u
Leeds (A) Thursday
Crusaders (H) Easter Monday

Except that it has everything to do with Sky. Otherwise, you're spot on.

It's so weird that we keep getting drawn to play Leeds over Easter too. What are the odds on that?