Quote ="mickyb1234"Perry, the season has run from end of Feb to end of sep for a couple of years, so we always knew we had a game last weekend just didn't know home or away, so poor excuse really, would rather folk say they just don't want to rather than looking for reasons.'"
Seriously micky? You think everyone is able to book out every Saturday and Sunday for seven months of the year? And that not doing so is 'a poor excuse'? Has it not occurred to you that because we play our games on Sunday, people might arrange other things for a Saturday? Does no-one in your world have a job, a family, other interests, a life to lead?
Let me give you some scenarios.
You've arranged to do something with your kids on the Saturday, are you supposed to let them down because a fixture's been announced?
You've booked the family holiday (and this year you couldn't fit it around the fixtures because you didn't know when they were), are you supposed to cancel the holiday because a fixture's been announced?
You've agreed to go into work on a Saturday, are you supposed to let down your employer because a fixture's been announced?
We had 10 days notice that we were playing on that Saturday, I nearly didn't make it because I'd agreed to things and hurriedly had to juggle stuff around, not everyone can do that so easily. The RFL expecting fans to do so is treating them with contempt. Treat your paying customers with contempt and they walk away. Maybe that's why attendances are struggling across the board. And maybe our missing 3500 fans are in part due to the contempt that the club have shown us in the past.
People don't have poor excuses micky, they have jobs/families/responsibilities/lives, and not everyone can trash them at short notice to accomodate the RFL's latest scheme.
