Sky coming around here, putting money into the game and then deciding when the most popular fixtures are televised on the night's with the highest viewing figures.

Disgusting. The game was far better off with one game on Saturday afternoon courtesy of ITV.

Premiership football wouldn't have games shown on weekdays.

* works for the papers and programmes like Points of view before the watershed.

Get a grip? So do I thank Sky?
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Thank you Sky, although you only think about lining your pockets you apparently saved our game so forget any anger towards you.
All those part time leigh fans and part time fev fans detest the game but thanks to you for making sure I dont have to detest watching my team.

Please Sky could you move us to a 23:00 Wednesday night slot because no one will get angry because we all have to 'accept it'

Yours gratefully

Wire Yed
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I'm angry, I have a right to be angry, I'll show my anger, this is a forum for opinions.

5 from 6 derby games on Thursday was easily avoidable, they could have had 3 on Friday and still coined it in

Actually looking at it rationally and withdrawing any personal issues with Thursday nights, then we haven't come out of the Thursday fixtures too bad at all.

There are 22 rounds of Thursday night games so given that Catalans are tied to Saturday fixtures then each of the other 11 teams get 2 home and 2 away fixtures, which is exactly what we have. Our two away games are both extremely local to our travelling fan-base and against teams that play evening matches anyway (and we avoid Friday night motorway madness) so no missing out on Sunday games. Our two home Thursday fixtures are both in July when the weather should be better rather than a freezing February or March evening.

Looks like Gatcliffe and Broomhead may have pulled off a bit of a coup with these fixtures on behalf of the fans.

You just edited out the important bit to once again to try to make it look dumb..£70

Wigan have 6 Thursday Sky fixtures, four away from home including at Wakefield and Hull.

Imagine how f**k**g upset people would be if Warrington had been given those fixtures!

Another good thing is that every tv fixture for the regular rounds is now fixed (except Easter Bank Holiday Monday KO time) so we won't see anybody moaning about last minute fixture changes (or if you do see it then you know it will be somebody just moaning for the sake of moaning).

Very angry if I was a Wigan fan but I'm not.

We can't all be in the privileged position you are in Paul.

So ok, ill just say nothing, after all 10 tickets, 40 drinks, 10 pies is peanuts.
In fact most people could just stay at home, it's on tv, thank you Sky.
Why doesn't Broomhead pull another master stroke and save all those game day overheads like paying for all the game day staff?

You're on twitter then.

Does anyone remember the game that sky pulled out of because we were shat.?
I don't know if it was that game v Bradford when we were like 30 odd plus down and came back to win in the 2nd half??
But what which ever, we were playing a top team and sky expected us to get battered!
We won and the game the switched to was an utterly dire one sided affair.!!!

Wasn't it v Wigan when Derbyshire was caretaker coach?

Didn't they also do that with a Saints Salford game, pulled it that is, Salford then battered Saints.

Midweek games in sport are nothing new.

Yed is the problem for you that the game is on a Thursday night or is it that you have chosen to live 200 miles away from the club? Sometimes we have to look at our part in things.

IIRC that was SL6. Remember it well.

It's Thursday, the distance is a factor obviously but Thursdays are the only day of the week I can't get off.
Our performance figures come in on Thursday, meetings and the like means it's a no go unless I'm off.
I get one Thursday off every 18 weeks.

Sorry Yed but you're a small minority.

5 Thursday games, the 3 Away matches being against local teams, is actually pretty good.

Personally I'd prefer the Thursday televised games to be Hull and alike coz I can watch them on tele! I definitely wouldn't have gone. Bad Wire Good Wire.

Yed matey I'm not saying it's not tough luck for you but I guess one man's Thursday night is another man's Saturday afternoon. i.e) there will never be a fixture schedule to suit everyone. I would suspect the vast majority of the Warrington active match attending fan base (95%?) live within 20 miles of Warrington/Wigan/Saints and a high proportion of them will work days. I suspect a good number actually work Saturdays and Sundays in retail too.

At least now you can make a decision on a season ticket with the knowledge that the games will not be changed.

I don't mind there being Thursday fixtures, there are other games Friday/Saturday/Sunday I can't make, my point is that 5 of 6 derby matches ie the 6 most desirable games are on a Thursday, it's eliminated all of them in one fell swoop.
They should have mixed them up.

Unless you happen to have a seated season ticket in which case because the date that you had to renew to get your seat comes before the fixture release date which somewhat forces your hand (I've asked the club about this on Twitter)! It was understandable in previous years but they could have easily held the seats until after the announcement this year.

On the Thursday night issue, I'm with Yed. The "premier" fixtures from a Wire point of view all on Thursdays is just not fair to all the fans. Mixing them around could have easily been done.

I'd be interested to see the attendance figures for the Thursday games last year v the previous seasons and if it has had an impact on the revenues the club is generating.

Ive just read the interview done with Blake Solly (SL GenMan) in the WG. ....... “By scheduling all Thursday night regular season matches immediately upon the release of fixtures and working with clubs to promote these matches, we are confident that Super League can increase Thursday night crowds as well.”

He actually doesnt say in that comment that the Sunday/Friday fixtures are fixed (although that what I understand the spirit was......."first phase" fixtures are fixed from the start. Hope we are not sat here in April/May discussing terminology.

In an earlier thread there was a suggestion that the Catalan game (28 Feb 2015) might take place in Barcelona, I note on the main WW Website the ground is noted as "Stade Gilbert Brutus".

Does this mean the game will definitely in Perpignan?

I could do with knowing to finalise travel plans.

Yes that is a bit rough and, one would have thought, avoidable.

If we look at the fixtures from the team's perspective, most of the big games on a Thursday are kind of a blessing as they get a full week (or more) to recover.

...and 4 or 5 days to prepare!

True.. But other than playing Leeds & Saints back to back with a short turnaround, the games before the "big" games are relatively easy.. on paper.