This season Leeds have played 3 consecutive home matches and on 6 occasions played either 2 consecutive home or 2 consecutive away matches. Is alternate home and away the norm?

No as stadium availability comes into things. Wigan usually have a month of away games midsession when the football club wants the pitch relaid at the DW.

So if The Toronto Wolfpack were to say the Lamport Stadium was unavailable throughout May, they would only be doing something similar to Wigan.

They also need to play the first few games of the season away due to the unplayable Canadian weather in February.

As a result they would be bound to have plenty of pairs of home games for the rest of the season.

To allow for some recovery period will Toronto and one other team be using a time machine for the Easter home and away weekend games.

If the RFL had given some thought to Toronto having winter in the Summer Super League then Toronto wouldn’t have been accepted. It still could happen.

Weather would allow games through all of April and May in Toronto and even late March. Toronto FC play outdoors then. Stand down the cavalry.

February is when the League start and runs into early March, the weeks when weather won’t allow games.

Well spotted Sir Kev. Simple solution - kick Wigan out too then!

I have since checked Toronto FC's home games for 2017 and 2018. They have played as early as the last week in Feb/first week in March. Their field is 300m away from Lamport.

Non-Toronto residents can stop uninformed speculation about when Wolfpack can play home games. It's not going to knock the SL schedule out of whack.

That’s fine then, alternate home and away same as everyone else.

How about we move the start of season back just one week, plenty games in the U.K get called off in Feb/March & allow TW their 1st two games be away, then home/away rest of season + 2 home at some point ?

Easy !

It's crazy how the season starts too early. Have it aligned with the start of the NRL season or at best a week before?? Too logical for the RFL and SL though....

But everyone else doesn’t alternate home and away, for example Leeds had 6 occasions when they played either 2 home or 2 away games in a row and even had 3 home games in a row this season. Wigan have a stretch of away games when their rental ground is unavailable.

The 2 games over the Easter weekend should have been scrapped years ago for all players welfare

But SOO is worth it?
Toronto should play away on the Maundy Thursday as do their Monday opponents and they share the same flights and disadvantages......simplz

Agreed!

Why, just to allow TWP to play alternate games ?

I dont have an issue with them playing 2 home then 2 away games etc.
However, some people have already pinned their hope on them "saving RL" in the UK. However, if we lose a British club from SL to allow them to compete in SL, they are actually doing the opposite AND reducing the number of FT British players.
They should be "extra" not instead.
The NRL seems to cope well with 16 sides and yet, SL keeps reducing the numbers "to improve quality", something which just hasn't happened.

So a bad extensive winter in Toronto could see them play around 9 away games up to the magic weekend I think that would mess up the home and away weekly format for the rest of the other teams.
The biggest danger is if Toronto have to postpone say 2 games in mid March they would have to forfeit those home games because teams won’t want a re arranged fixture travelling mid week to Toronto.
I should imagine airline costs will increase in the spring when most clubs start to play across the Atlantic.
As for the Easter weekend all teams should be playing Friday and Monday and not Thursday and Monday which could be the possibility for 4 teams if Toronto is in the mix.

To avoid any team having to travel 5 timezones at Easter lets try something new and innovative that will allow us to take the game to new market. Toronto play both their Easter games in Tasillaq, Greenland



Shame that ittoqqortoormiit is only -1hr, much better name! (Although it’s Danish name is Scorsbysund).

The main reason for not aligning the start of our season with the NRL is that we play significantly more games than them.

The NRL play 22 games in the league plus a max of 4 playoffs including the Grand Final. Even if you add on 3 SOO games that’s 29 games in the season.

SL play 30 league games followed by a max of 2 playoff games getting to 32 games. Plus a possible 5 Challenge Cup games.
Taking it to 37.

It’d be impossible to align ours with the NRL.

I'm aware of that but, some of our "brighter" posters dont seem to be, mainly the ones that think Toronto are the future.
I think its just coincidence

They could play at the Rogers Centre undercover.....

We should make the effort towards alignment though, we shouldn't be playing Rugby League in February its just not Summer Rugby. I,ve always thought the magic weekend should be a 9's comp involving super league and championship teams to generate more expansive interest and participation.

The majority have always thought a top 5 play off was the better one, the intensity of games before the top 8 are weaker than previous years.

We should get back down to 27 league games. 14 teams home and away plus Magic give you that and with those 3 fewer games just start the season three weeks later at the end of Feb instead of the start of it.

Honestly think that’s a key part of why we’ve seen an increase in injuries over the years and most teams constantly with chunks of their starting 17 in the stands which must hurt interest/attendance/viewing figures in games. 3 extra weeks to recover from the previous year. 3 extra weeks to work on fitness for the upcoming season. 3 extra weeks to work on individual and team skills. All would help improve the quality on the field and likelihood of seeing stronger starting 17’s which in turn would make it much easier to run a reserve league without games being cancelled because of huge injury lists.