Kick off Times : Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:08 pm  

Giants have moved there kick off times to 7.45 from 8.00 ,according to the fixtures on the website most of our opponents haven't,thought this was a Superleague directive or is it only for televised matches in which case i can see several people being annoyed at missing kick offs

Re: Kick off Times : Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:28 pm  

Televised games have moved but it's not a directive, we have moved ours to give families a bit more time for the those saying it's too late to take the kids etc.

Re: Kick off Times : Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:36 pm  

Appreciate Giants moving time personally but if eveyone is doing different things confusion will reign ,we have enough problems moving days around without varying kick off times.So for some teams some kick offs will be 7.45 and some 8 ,good luck with that!

Re: Kick off Times : Wed Jan 10, 2018 4:48 pm  

It's only like in the past when teams played on a Sunday, kick-off times varied from 2.30, 3.00 and 3.30 i think Wakefield and Cas still sometimes kick off at 3.30 on a Sunday.

At the end of the day most people are savvy enough to just check before a game but it would be more helpful if it was a set time for everyone.

Re: Kick off Times : Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:13 pm  

Take your point about Sundays never been able to workout why some teams kick off at 3.30 instead of 3 i know at one time was something to do with pubs closing but those days are long gone (as are many of the pubs).At the end of the day the earlier kick offs are at the behest of Sky because matches were overrunnng due to video ref and thats what needs sorting plus reducing the time waisting that now seems to have become a feature of many matches

Re: Kick off Times : Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:54 pm  

think the tv games have also been brought forward so the journos can get the write up in the papers next day ready for print

Re: Kick off Times : Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:09 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

think the tv games have also been brought forward so the journos can get the write up in the papers next day ready for print

I thought it was just so Sky could get more important sports on for longer... like kabbadi

Re: Kick off Times : Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:19 pm  

used to like kabbadi on channel 4 back in the day