Just noticed that the Northern Rail Cup Semi between Barrow and Featherstone has been chosen for the Thursday night game on 18/06 and the other Semi is at the weekend.

So faced with a choice between getting part timers to do a days work and then travel 4 hours on a coach from Featherstone to Cumbria or getting full time proffesionals to travel from Widnes 1.5 hours along the M62 to Halifax they've gone with the former.


This immediately puts Featherstone at a disadvantage and also reduces the prospective gate at Barrow for the match.

I have no ties to any of the clubs involved but would think the best thing for the competition, the clubs and sky would be to have as level a playing field as possible with the best crowd attendance/atmosphere for the TV match.

Widnes are not full-time, just ask Paul Cullen.



I think there are 9 full-time players at the club, the rest are part-time.

Naff all fev fans will get up there now, we shall struggle to take up more than 100, mainly with the short notice.

But will be a great day no matter what.

Got a car full and will be singing for the 80 minutes even if we are getting stuffed by a cricket score.

Come on you cappers!!!

Fev and Barrow fans have been complaining about not getting any TV exposure and moaning about Widnes and Halifax getting too much.

Well here it is.

They don't exist in the Championship i'm afraid (and no - i'm not talking about Batley's pitch

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RFL

I could swear Fev have been on at least three times already this season!

And as for putting the most viable game on for the remaining sides and most entertaining game for TV viewers, that is non-existant. There is no thought put in at all, ridiculous!

After what they did to Quins fans for the game in France, are you suprised.

I honestly cannot see what the problem is.

Come on people a couple of years ago we were all grumbling about not being on't telly



Now we all moan because we are on't telly



Seriously who thinks it helps us in any way ?

Quote ="Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza"Just noticed that the Northern Rail Cup Semi between Barrow and Featherstone has been chosen for the Thursday night game on 18/06 and the other Semi is at the weekend. '" Where did you get the info? On the RFL site it is Sunday 21 www.therfl.co.uk/~therflc/fixtur ... ague&id=91

Quote ="Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza"Just noticed that the Northern Rail Cup Semi between Barrow and Featherstone has been chosen for the Thursday night game on 18/06 and the other Semi is at the weekend. '" Where did you get the info? On the RFL site it is Sunday 21 www.therfl.co.uk/~therflc/fixtur ... ague&id=91

No different to us playing up at Whitehaven on a Thursday night with a week's notice t'other year.

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Quote ="lpage"Where did you get the info? On the RFL site it is Sunday 21 www.therfl.co.uk/~therflc/fixtur ... ague&id=91'" OK, found it on the Sky website.

Quote ="lpage"Where did you get the info? On the RFL site it is Sunday 21 www.therfl.co.uk/~therflc/fixtur ... ague&id=91'" OK, found it on the Sky website.

To be honest, I'd say most Championship teams are on a level playing field. Dare I say until recently, Widnes were worse off! Now it appears as though the whole squad is training together. Fev's players will have to get holidays booked.

Yeah I've heard they've been hitting it off of late.

How does having a multi-millionaire backer enabling you to sign 9 full time players put you at a disadvantage ?

I think he was referring to Widnes's form rather than anything else.

Doesn't give the supporters sufficient time to book time off work to get there. Some won't be able to take the time off work to get there, even if they could book it off. Gives them no consideration whatsoever.

And what about the players? Many of them will be due to work on both Thursday and Friday. Not really fair on them, is it?

And just because it's happened before, that doesn't make it right.

You do recall that in the days when [iall[/i clubs were semi pro, midweek games were a regular part of the fixtures don't you?

But were they arranged at such short notice?

How much time did both players and supporters have to try and book it off work?

They got months and months of notice. Especially for cup replays, they were always agreed well in advance

Well apologies, then. It's clearly fine, not an issue and certainly not a problem to the players and spectators it affects.

I repeat again, just because it's happened before, it doesn't make it right. But hey, what do I know?

That was a necessity though due to the amount of fixtures in the season, not because of the whim of some TV company.