two games moved for football

a sign of things to come if they get in the premiership??

so much for us marketing friday night games



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For the last 20 years both the football and the rugby have managed to play the day after each other, suddenly they have a good season and start laying down the law acting like a premiership team...it's not on and we shouldn't agree to this - 20 years they've been e and we've never had to move games to 'give the pitch more recovery time' ....Not happy about this !!

All working together to accomodate football, you can bet your bottom dollar that if we had a big game coming up football would not move their game.
And would it have been better moving the Hull.F.C game to Sunday, better than Thursday for all supporters.

Get over it. Giants have changed fixtures for town and town for Giants over the years. If town were to get in to the Premier League then that would benefit the area and the Giants. They share the same stadium, offices and quite a lot of the fan base and hopefully some of that winning mentality and professionalism would rub off onto us.

Obviously l have to plan ahead, and this does not affect me, this time, but if it does and l have laid out for flights etc, no more season ticket for me. if 2 games cannot be played on concecutive days, the groundsmen should get down to the job.

Can't ever recall a town game being moved because Fartown suddenly thought they were the dogs Gonads and wanted pampering and extra day for the pitch to recover mate, i know it's easy for you to say get over it being a big town fan but not all of us are and i couldn't give a flying one how well town are doing (we usually take points of them anyway) nor what league they are in, it bothers me that Fartown fans have to be inconvenienced when it's hard enough for us to get people in as it when for 20+ years we've had Fri/Sat or Sat/Sun fixtures without a problem till Town suddenly decide they're more important cos they are finally having a good season.

Exactly. It's great that the 2 clubs are now working together after a previously fractured relationship. Hopefully this leads to a lot more mutual cooperation, joint marketing ventures and people wandering over from the roundball game to realise what a great product RL is, and what a good club The Giants are.

I can't recall town moving a game for giants for any reason...

town had a say on the workington game going ahead so suppose we have returned the favour , just a bigger one!

the hull fc game prob on the thurs and not the sunday due to short turnaround the week after..player welfare and all that.

is town doing well really good for the giants??? i think it will make it harder for us to attract new fans to rugby league when football is already king in this town.

the premiership is there for town though at the moment and money talks ...and its big money so if they do reach the promised land then we best get used to it.

if they do then it will help the hd one project big time too....

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I fall into the positive camp on this one. A good, cooperative relationship between the Giants and Town can only be good in my opinion. So we have had to concede this time but hey they now owe us. Let's hope that both can be as successful as possible.

Well i'm sceptical, i think now they've seen how we have just accepted it they will expect it every time.

If both clubs want a good relationship maybe the football side may want to issue an apology to the rugby side and in particularly Ken Davy for the absolute vile stuff that was thrown about a few years ago, which, as SG as already mentioned, was encouraged and commended by their Chairman !.

For years we've been equals in the stadium , let's not become their puppets all of a sudden.

I don't think that's true tbh Daz. I've been to many Q&A's with Dean Hoyle and he's been asked a number of questions re Davy, and he never once commended any form of abuse or anything I'd class as "vile". Not to my recollection anyway.

its not even a fixture clash though....

its just giving the ground staff 1 extra day to sort the grass out!!

so in future if town play a game one day after us this could mean we have to move every game to two days!!!

could be very bad for us not having a regular game day, after all the publicity of making friday nights giants night....

bigger turnaround in days for the fixture week after id imagine... thurs to sunday rather than sunday to sunday.

had to consult hull fc and catalans

wonder if we will get some compensation in future if they reach the promiseland

from thewlis's quotes its seems town were concerned that their games would be cancelled due to the pitch being ripped up?!??!?!



what a joke, when has this ever happened in all the years the two clubs have played together at the stadium??

i think the giants have been wrongly done too here and its not on

i think a few season ticket holders who cant make the games now due to other commitments on the evenings may be asking for a refund , i know of one already

At the time ken's address was put on their fans forum by, I believe their supporters group, more or less urging people to go and abuse him over the shares issue and I cannot remember Hoyle once condemning this action but praised the overall campaign.
We should tell them to stuff it, we need to pleasing our own fans before any football club !!!

Generally the pitch is a terrible mess during the first half of our season. Particularly around the goal mouth and centre circle, which is wear caused solely by football.

By the time we hand it back over to them in the autumn, a combination of summer and no football means it's generally in good nick.

exactly so why change our fixtures? when the football team arent even playing the day after

2 more games i am going to miss will i buy a season ticket again no

Exactly !!!!!

So you aren't going to make 5 games all season?

with holidays and games being moved who knows . move a game for sky fair enough but to move games like this no

think alot of people will be feeling the same over this situation, its disgusting how the giants have been treated

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