Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:19 pm  

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 http://www.giantsrl.com/news/article/5896/giants-fixture-amendments

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 http://www.giantsrl.com/news/article/5896/giants-fixture-amendments

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:42 pm  

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 sh!te and we've never had to move games to 'give the pitch more recovery time' ....Not happy about this !!

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:45 pm  

brearley84 wrote: 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 http://www.giantsrl.com/news/article/5896/giants-fixture-amendments 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.

brearley84 wrote: 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 http://www.giantsrl.com/news/article/5896/giants-fixture-amendments 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.

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 2:59 pm  

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.

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 3:10 pm  

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 jobcenter.

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 4:14 pm  

moggie wrote:

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.

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.

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 4:16 pm  

moggie wrote:

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.

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.

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 5:40 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

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.

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

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 5:47 pm  

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....

Re: Fixture changes already to accommodate footballl.. : Thu Feb 02, 2017 8:58 pm  

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