i was waiting for someone to do that

Hamelin Utd...

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but on the subject of livelier build ups to games, hull tonight we are having a lightshow and they are handing out glow sticks and playing music so loud tour eardrums burst. Did it last home match minus the glow sticks so maybe its becoming a thing, dunno, any how it is a bit more exciting.

Sounds more like an Ibiza night rather than a Rugby League match

Isn't it always at night in hull? Haha will be chaos tomorrow when KR and City are playing as well as it being an average Friday night. Rugby fighting football, football fighting each other, rugby and rugby stood around not understanding why football fight so much, normal average bogans getting involved, PARTY!!

Sounds like a night out in Linekers

Looks awful, the players look awkward and embarrassed, wish they would drop it !!

Officials come out
Away team runs out
Home team runs out
Rugby game is played.

Simple as that.

No slow walk out with teams together, no line of kids, no line up that serves no purpose at all, no daft lights out/flashing lights gimmick, and while we're at it can every ground turn the ridiculously loud music down n'all?!

I'm not a boring old sod. I enjoy being off my face and having my head in the speakers at the front of the dance floor at 3am whilst watching a DJ set. but not at the rugby. At the rugby the music being so loud so you can't hear the bloke next to you does nothing. It doesn't build an atmosphere, it's just daft.

KILL THE CHEESE! I'm there to watch the rugby!

That last time should be Super League's tag line.

Amen to that!!

well said, Wigan is especially bad with the loud music, it it any wonder the atmosphere is dead at Wigan home games, most people just probably want to get some peace and quiet after that!
apparently it's what the "new fans" want so we have to go with it.
don't get the lights thing either, Hull City did it last night at the football....why??

Just wondering if its the RFL or SKY who have brought this in ?

It would appear to be the RFL as it's at both televised and non-televised games.

Seems a bit silly to me. Not entirely sure what they're lining up for.

They started doing it in the NRL reserve grade comp here in NSW.

The teams line up together, walk out and then shake hands. Utter nonsense. They even have the captain wearing an armband with a C on it.

That's what the football teams do over here. Though in John Terry's case the C on the armband didn't stand for "Captain".

Isn't it because all players walk out now with a kid. That wouldn't really work if you did one team at a time and them running straight onto the pitch. So I imagine it's to accommodate that and let the kids have their picture taken in the lineup.

Why not have the teams run out like the good old days then line up with the kids if we really have to go down that route?

It's loud at a few grounds, including Wire's, but it is [ireally[/i loud at Wigan. Ridiculously loud!

As soon as the music stops it's deadly silent in the crowd in a lot of grounds because the music's been so loud you can't get anything going in the stands. Fans build an atmosphere. Fans who've been given the chance to, that is.

Does anyone know ? is there something happening that we can't see or don't know about ?

Even the players look very awkward stood there for what looks like an eternity with their hands on a child's shoulder....maybe it's for the parents of the kids or the sponsors to take photo's ??

And there was an example of it at Wigan; Barrie and Brian were at the screen and some terrible singer was belting out some garbage singing with some karaoke music blaring out of the PA and you could barely hear a single word of what Barrie and Brian were saying.

I'm in Manchester and I reckon if I'd just opened my window a bit I'd be able to hear that music coming from the DW from 27 miles away!

I really couldn't tell you. I'm half expecting Richard Osman and Alexander Armstrong to pop up and say "welcome to POINTLESS!" and point at the two teams lining up!

spot on, same at football, i know atmosphere's at most sports grounds has changed somewhat, but why clubs feel the need to to blast music out is beyond me, like you say, let the fans create the atmosphere not some shouty numpty with a microphone and loud rave music!

Music is killing the atmosphere...killing it. Please stop!

A few years ago Wigan nailed it with creating a build up to a game but now it is embarrassingly bad. I and many others hate it, but the club don't listen to the fans. And the RFL certainly don't listen to the fans!

Music after tries and goals is pure cheese on toast as well!