I am with you entirely on this Alan

Didnt a Friday night game attarct the biggest league crowd of the season in 2014?

Gives the club a chance to test a different day/time with both general crowd and corporate.

Gives the players 10 days rest for the next battle inour promotionquest, i suspect thats were player welfare comes in.

Looking forward to a Friday night under the floodlights...

Friday night also attracted a paltry sub 1000 crowd last season. 864 for a first team match = Pathetic.

We have trialled Friday nights before and they do not work. We got 4,000 playing Featherstone Rovers on a Sunday at the LSV last season with all to pay. The Friday night match at the LSV against the same opposition attracted half that amount despite ST's being valid and Leigh needing a win to be crowned miner premiers and to be presented with the Championship trophy.

Friday nights will or should work for corporate in a city like Leeds but not in a town like Leigh. We have been here before, how many times do we need to test before the penny drops ?

If we want to test something new (and I am all for trialling out new idea's in an attempt to boost crowds) lets play on Saturday evenings which in the main is relatively untapped by Leigh despite some encouraging support against Toulouse a few seasons ago. That is where we need to go. Otherwise lets finally consign Friday night games to the dustbin.

I agree.

I really hope so. All weeknight games including Thursday & Friday are such a mad rush & a pain to get to, then you're sat round on Sunday with nothing to do.

If we did go up then don't expect a 'settled' day - each week will be dictated by which day we're playing the following week as is the general trend in SL at the moment.

are you sure we only got 2000 on against Fev when we lifted the trophy?

99 more fans Harold at the cup game vs. league winning game

Therefore I stand corrected Ste.

However it shows you can play with all stats and figures to suit an argument. The cup game was all pay bear in mind, when people will argue the cup is not very well supported but stacks up very nicely in favour of Sunday's vs Friday nights

And last season's Friday night attendance of less than 1,000 would still be considerably the lowest seen at Leigh for a first team match in how long?

Worth mentioning that it wasn't a Leigh home game against St Pat's

Fully understand that Ste.

However, the other side of that coin is that the players only get four full days' rest between the Featherstone trip and the London cup tie - and I wouldn't mind betting that the Fev game will be one of the most physical matches we face, this season.

That is an incredibly good point Matt, and i have to say was a slight oversight on my part ùntil it wax pointed out by your good self. However as it was on our home ground I am still claiming it towards my reasoning ha ha.

I agree totally with what your saying. TV plays a big part in SL and it's not a trend..It's down to TV scheduled programming..We are not in that position as of yet.So why take it to a Friday night?

Its a bad call,for a club who are promoting attendance in my eyes.

But i'll be there Friday.And FEV Sunday.

And we also have half a dozen first grade players not getting a game at present!

One of the factors to be dealt with when building a large squad.

We need to get used to playing on Friday & Saturday when we go up . as Sunday 3pm games will be very few a far beetween . I for one won't be complaining when we are playing on a nice Saturday afternoon in the south of France.

. London will also only have four days rest and a long coach journey up the M6.

The decision has been made, and like a lot of fans have said some you win some you lose. I personally was heading for a Sportsmans Dinner in Atherton for Atherton LR, I rang to cancel my ticket, they have had two tables cancelled already, oh dear.

Player welfare would seem to be one point not considered seriously, two of the toughest games in the programme, Featherstone Away and London in the Cup - and only four days in between.........if anyone else has made a similar point, sorry.

Yes.

I was merely making the point that the Friday may be good for our players' welfare between the London and Whitehaven games, but maybe not quite so good between the Featherstone and London games.

Perhaps it may have been best just to say that the decision was taken so that the lads could have a well-earned weekend off with their families? None of us would begrudge them that.

There are more than 5 days between the end of the Fev game and start of the Broncos game.

Fwiw I personally prefer Sunday games.

Not sure promotion will make that big a difference to our home games, Sky only ever seem to show Saints, Leeds or w!g@n every week. so don't think they'll be desperate to show newly promoted Leigh every other game. Stick with our Sundays, Sunday is rugby day.

Look at how many games are being shifted because of being on TV the following week.

Predictions for Friday night, folks?

Then again I suppose it depends on what the teams are going to be...

Either way, I'll predict a high scoring game, with Leigh winning maybe 30 points to 20.

6 of us going. Looking forward to it.

Not a great fan of Friday nights myself but I can see this being a reward for the lads, and could have even been an incentive, win the first 5 and if we get a home draw we'll opt for Friday, win that and you can have a weekend off.

Leigh by 30+