Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:53 pm  

I would say he has considered this very carefully because his ultimate goal is to switch our games to a Saturday probably because it suits our landlords. If you are trying to prove Saturday's generate more interest than Sunday's which three games would you choose. I would expect the fact it is the play offs would naturally increase the attendance with both the home and away supporters compared with the non fixtures of the last few months.

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:57 pm  

Why if you come to Dewsbury do you have to play on a Saturday.Why cant we do double headers like at Donny.

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:25 am  

Its because any reason that can be found to paint the picture that our club plays second fiddle will be explored. Its tosh, Dews don't play at home every sunday its every other sunday. I

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:20 am  

EQUALIZER wrote:

Why if you come to Dewsbury do you have to play on a Saturday.Why cant we do double headers like at Donny.

How would you split the revenue if each match was a double header ?

Having said that Dewsbury will only use the ground every other Sunday and it cant be too difficult for the fixture planners to sort.

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:24 am  

lampyboy wrote:

Its because any reason that can be found to paint the picture that our club plays second fiddle will be explored. Its tosh, Dews don't play at home every sunday its every other sunday. I

Yes. That's exactly why they are exploring the Saturday option, in order to make us look second fiddle...

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:38 am  

Trnity HC what are you talking about. If the move to Dews comes off the Sunday fixtures would be easy to arrange, every other week when dews are not playing at home. We could even throw a Friday night game in now and again, infact I would prefer home games to be played on a Friday.
It would be interesting to see what kind of response the club would get from Sat fixtures , if the gates increase you could hardly blame the club for changing or exploring the possibility of playing Sat.
Whats the big problem

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:59 am  

FTR, the reason for playing Saturday's in the middle 8 is that BS requested at least 6 days between games and the only way to do so was to play on Saturdays.
MC is only too aware that there would be some who would disapprove, but their inconvenience is nothing compared to the significance of our wish to compete to our highest level in these games and be in SL next year.
There is nothing more behind this than a Rugby decision.

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:30 am  

TRB wrote:

FTR, the reason for playing Saturday's in the middle 8 is that BS requested at least 6 days between games and the only way to do so was to play on Saturdays.
MC is only too aware that there would be some who would disapprove, but their inconvenience is nothing compared to the significance of our wish to compete to our highest level in these games and be in SL next year.
There is nothing more behind this than a Rugby decision.

Not true going by the quote by Carter himself.

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Sat Aug 01, 2015 10:50 am  

Theboyem wrote:

Not true going by the quote by Carter himself.

I've missed something then.

Tbf, I was talking to him about this season and that is the reason for the Saturday games now!

Re: Destination Dewsbury? : Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:09 am  

TRB wrote:

I've missed something then.

Tbf, I was talking to him about this season and that is the reason for the Saturday games now!

It's part of the reason, not the only one, he quoted although it makes no difference, it would have been 6 or 7 days whether it was saturday or sunday. We have actually shortened the gap before the widnes game at home by doing it. The other is a trial. The quote on wednesday was...

Chairman, Michael Carter has spoken about the choice of Saturday games, explaining, “We have chosen Saturday fixtures for two reasons. The first is that we want to have a minimum of a six day turnaround if not seven days between our fixtures. This will be extremely beneficial to get the best out of our team over the seven rounds. Secondly, is to get an appetite of how popular Saturday fixtures will be for the future purposes.”