Leeds first up at headingley and unless im been stupid which is possible it classed as our home game

Don’t quite understand why they can’t just swap it to our home game and Leeds can come to wakey later in season.

Other than that it’s a cracking fixture to start with.

Baptism of fire ,but be great to see how we go against one of the powerhouses of super league in the opening round ,cant come soon enough

Is it just the first round at a neutral venue?

All the 1st round games are being played at headingley

Its really poor how we play a home game v a side on there own ground its unfair esp if theres relagation and promotion

Did Wakefield put in a bid to host the round?

lets just say hope its well disinfected

That isn’t the point. Common sense says that until All teams are able to play home and away, then any team playing on their own ground, that fixture is classed as their home game. Otherwise, there’s no such thing as a neutral venue.

So you're saying, in exchange for de-furloughing a load of staff and spending a fortune on making their stadia covid-secure the hosting teams should lose the chance to make any money back later by all their games being deemed home games ?

Best of luck getting anyone to volunteer to host them.

Think poor old Catalans will be having a fair few games like that

Its not about that if the game is at headingley whoever leeds plsyed it should be classed as an home game for them and then hopefully further down line when things may be normalish the return game be at say wakefield instead of been at leeds again

The lack of a crowd negates the home advantage for me. Its grass at the end of the day without the Southstand baying for everything from the ref. Point remains its daft to have the game against Leeds at Headingley as Trinity's home fixture.

I understand your point but it's flawed. What about the other 5 games? It's all at Headingley for that weekend

Please explain this "Bid" process you mention? I believe at the restart Leeds, Huddersfield, Warrington, Salford and St Helens all put bids forward to host matches, since then the Covid "Secure" venues where decided upon by the RFL’s Clinical Advisory Group, they looked at all stadia throughout SL and also other options outside of SL and decided on the venues that currently meet the governments expectations.

Also it is my understanding the neutral venues in terms of game preparation, strict cleaning protocols and controlling of "Zones" as part of the neutral venue process is all funded by Super league, Inclusive of reimbursement of others costs associated with hosting games.

Exactly, the hosting clubs make no money out of this. That's the entire point. To penalise them as suggested by making all the games they play at their grounds home games means they will have fewer games in front of crowds when the time comes. It's nonsensical and none of the clubs with suitable stadia would offer theirs for use under those conditions.

Will we still be playing Leeds at Belle Vue later in the season? Is the first round loop fixtures?

Up the Trin

That would make some sense.

Looking forward to this match and weekend, some good matches.

Up the Trin

I'm surprised our 1st game isn't against Leigh

While I am surprised that we aren't playing Leeds first game, however you try and wrap this up Leeds will be the only club playing at home in this round and yet they are being classed as the away side ??
Remembering that fixtures have only just been released, why the hell aren't they classed as the home side for this fixture - it makes no sense.
As for the other 5 games, so what ? Leeds still get to play at home for their away fixture

So what about the other 5 games you say! 5 of those teams will not be getting a home game, had we been playing anyone else what difference would it make?

I think you may be missing the point, whilst some of those teams will be classed as the home team, they are both playing a neutral venue, Leeds are playing at home with home advantage yet they are deemed to be the away side.

Spot on !

Think the reality is we dont have the facilities to support 5 games in one day, but am sure leeds will be making money from this or they wouldn't be doing it, so once again bigger clubs probably are doing better -

Its 6 games over 3 days! Its only 2 games a day, i suppose it's down to changing facilities.