York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:21 am  

York away first game of season.Sun 18th feb 3pm

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:39 am  

Away again, that's 3 yrs on the bounce, strange that one!

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:45 am  

Im genuinely in shock that we've been given probably the toughest team away as our first league game. No seriously.

Does peeve me off we continue to be milked by the RFL. They should alternate teams getting a home game as their first game every year as it's always one of the biggest crowds. We've had a home game once in the last 4 years.

Be a good day though. Beautiful city is York and finished on a high last season despite having problems early on during the off-season. They got a huge crowd for the game against Toronto despite no away fans and have a good marketing/PR guy. So with us hopefully bringing a decent following, could be a very big crowd.

[Bullseye]

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:15 am  

Bull Mania wrote:

Im genuinely in shock that we've been given probably the toughest team away as our first league game. No seriously.

It was always going to be like that. I'm sure Rimmer has a little Bullman voodoo doll too.

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:28 am  

I'll teach them to be mean to me after I lowered myself to go speak at them!!!

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:33 am  

I know that you are not paranoid if they really are out to get you, but I now think that perhaps we are so far down the system that the RFL have bigger things to think of. If not they should have.
By the way does the fixture list have an asterisk next to it saying they are subject to changes due to Cha_lo's surprise restructure.

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:38 am  

I expected Keighley away, but York is the other obvious one.

We'll probably get Keighley on Easter Monday. Anything to milk the Bulls supporters...

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:41 am  

rugbyreddog wrote:

I know that you are not paranoid if they really are out to get you, but I now think that perhaps we are so far down the system that the RFL have bigger things to think of. If not they should have.
By the way does the fixture list have an asterisk next to it saying they are subject to changes due to Cha_lo's surprise restructure.

Does it say * Tribunal outcome dependent?

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:24 am  

paulwalker71 wrote:

I expected Keighley away, but York is the other obvious one.

We'll probably get Keighley on Easter Monday. Anything to milk the Bulls supporters...

Keighley requested that they don't play us over Easter.

Re: York away first up. : Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:58 am  

Can you actually make requests? That's bizarre. Assuming then that every club submits a wishlist, who gets to decide whose requests take priority, and are the teams also affected by any "request" also consulted? This surely means an annual avalanche of basically long lists of desired and undesirable fixtures home and away coming in from every club!

Toronto may be a special case given they either played the first half of 2018 away, or else their ground and speccies would miss half their home fixtures, but as a general rule, I don't think clubs should be allowed to "make requests".

Don't like the sound of this at all. I may not often agree with much of the RFL's fixture planning, but it should clearly be their job, and theirs alone, to TELL the clubs what the fixtures are?