East Midlands is an hour, someone else flies ahead with luggage etc. Players arrive 30 minutes before flight, flight is 11:15am, arrive CCN at 14:15 (local time), at somewhere to train on the Monday evening by 7pm, train Tuesday, game Wednesday night, Thursday am flight back, next game Sunday.

losing 2 days is just not going to happen,1 day max (half day for each flight)

Only an hour to EMA??? Thats some going even by motorbike. Even on a good day in my car it takes on average about 1.40hrs so around 2hours on coach. I do a run 2 to 3 times a week which passes EMA and I have a heavy right foot & I'd struggle to do it in an hour with clear roads.

The point I'm getting at is that it really breaks up the week and all the planned training structures they will now doubt be working to under Gentle. In reality no matter how you do it, it will not be far off losing the equivalent of 2 full days training.

I dont know what the perfect solution is as quite honestly there isn't one.

Why is the KC an issue if the Exiles game is to be held there? As I thought the whole point was for Hull FC to play Catalans the same weekend, which would be played in France??? The only issue is that no Hull or Catalans Players can be picked for England, Exiles, Knights or France.

That is for me the better and fairest solution.

It was. I can just about remember drinking sangria scooped from the bottom of an ice cream freezer at about 1am before trying to remember where we were staying in French for the taxi.

beziers was a terrible choice for the majority of away fans, we couldn't even get close to the town, even with catalan sports tours! therefore we went straight to the stadium and had nearly a 3 hour wait for kick off, luckily we found a camponile restaurant close by for a meal

were you the one in a drunken stupour with the sombrero and false moustache dancing on the table ?

same problem for the 'home' fans travelling from the Perpignan area - they simply picked the wrong weekend for Beziers - anywhere else would have been fine

have u rung hull and told them this ??????

Why the hell people think Catalan should/will forfeit home advantage is crazy talk.

I dont think anyone genuinely does, just talking about alternatives.

Any game to be played anywhere except in Perpignan isn't an alternative surely.

I don't think so personally, nor do I think the Exiles weekend is a good idea, personally I'd leave it and see what the CC brings, if by some stretch one side gets to the final then it's midweek at the business end of the season, don't do anything early in the season.

Seems the obvious solution doesn't it.

you know RLFans, sensible and obvious are ignored in favour of knee jerking and idiotic by some, even limited some of our own.

It should be remembered that Football Clubs travel to all parts of Europe for mid week games.

it should also be remembered that football is nowhere near as physical as RL, and the players are multi-millionaires, and the clubs are paid a minimum of £80m a year, hardly comparable.

Not on that occasion!

I was thinking more about the fans. Not the jessies who play the game. Having said that the travelling has the same effect on a person whether they are being paid £10 or £10,000.

As I said in an earlier post, I would be absolutely fuming if I had travelled to France and the game was called off.

We stayed up all night as we were staying approx 40km away in Sete. Partied until 3am and loitered around the main square with other drunkards, eventually catching the train back to Sete at 6am. Shattered was the 'in-word' that day. Even thought the result wasn't in our favour and the poor timetable for transport effected us. I'd do it all again - But maybe drink a little less next time. 3litre plastic bottles of Sangria take effect after a while.

so you didn't actually see much of the delights of Sete then ?

We visited Sete last year as we stayed in/near Montpellier for the game. Lovely place. Not quite as drunk as Beziers when I went either.

It is going to be a disruption for people who wish to go to the game that work during midweek, unless they get the time off. As for a mid-week game in France for the players it would have the same effect if we played a midweek game against London or Saints for that matter. I don't see the problem other than 2 games in a week and a slight disruption for fans. The RFL should pull their fingers out and give us a date as soon as possible to ensure that fans can adjust and get time off work. Some fans are worrying too much. Its only France ffs. It's a few hours away not light years.

what difference would it make if SL players were multi millionaires ?

would they play any differently ?

Probably, they'd turn out like the fannies that play football

They would drive faster cars spend more money on women and do more drugs and live the life in Weir bar drinking champers












All of the above is not true, calm down

well,to paraphrase the words of the great George Best when asked about how he managed to lose all his money

" I spent it most of it on birds, booze, fast cars, clubbing and having a great time - the rest I just wasted "....