Re: Friday night Semi : Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:57 pm  

roversmad wrote:

Didn't work out so well for them when we had to travel there twice in 5 days back in 1986

True

The grounds chosen for Leeds semis vs the Hull clubs are worthy of note. Poor put-upon Leeds had to travel to Huddersfield in 2000 and vs Hull KR in '86 (twice as you say) were sent all the way to Elland Road which is basically in 'Unslet. Hardly fair.

Re: Friday night Semi : Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:15 pm  

i do feel for leeds fans in a way, as with a semi final you want to enjoy the day, it's the occasion rather than just a match, and friday night takes that occasion away for me, i can understand the frustration.

however i don't really feel for leeds in terms of venue, as to my knowledge, they have usually had the benefit of not having far to travel, last year was the first time in 9 years that they had to travel outside of yorkshire for a semi final, Huddersfield on the other hand have only had 1 semi final in yorkshire in the same period, ironically the 2006 semi at odsal, where leeds fans were so cocksure of brushing away the challenge of these upstarts,their fans gave the semi final a miss and splashed out on final tickets instead

Re: Friday night Semi : Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:33 pm  

meast wrote:

however i don't really feel for leeds in terms of venue, as to my knowledge, they have usually had the benefit of not having far to travel, last year was the first time in 9 years that they had to travel outside of yorkshire for a semi final, Huddersfield on the other hand have only had 1 semi final in yorkshire in the same period, ironically the 2006 semi at odsal

Indeed. This will be the 20th CC semi final tie I've seen Leeds play in, 14 of which have been in Yorkshire with nine in Hudds, one at Odsal, one at Doncaster and three in Leeds itself, albeit south of the river.

There is no room for us to complain about anything.

Re: Friday night Semi : Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:49 pm  

The game sold its soul and control to tv a long time ago. Why are people only just realising this?.

Re: Friday night Semi : Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:17 pm  

Less than 3,500 tickets sold by Leeds for Friday night.

Hardly a surprise, and hopefully the end of the ludicrous Friday night experiment for one what should be one of the showpiece games of the season.

Re: Friday night Semi : Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:25 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Less than 3,500 tickets sold by Leeds for Friday night.

Hardly a surprise, and hopefully the end of the ludicrous Friday night experiment for one what should be one of the showpiece games of the season.

If 4 million watch on TV compared to the usual 1 to 1.5 million but the crowd is 9,000 rather than 12,000 will that be deemed a "ludicrous" failure for Rugby League?

Re: Friday night Semi : Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:35 pm  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

If 4 million watch on TV compared to the usual 1 to 1.5 million but the crowd is 9,000 rather than 12,000 will that be deemed a "ludicrous" failure for Rugby League?

If 4 million watch it on TV and think "wow, they can only get 9,000 for their equivalent of an FA Cup semi-final, what a tin pot sport", then yes.

Not quite sure what makes you think that moving to Friday night will suddenly attract four times the number of viewers that Saturday/Sunday afternoons do though, or that those viewers won't be RL fans who would have tuned in anyway?

Re: Friday night Semi : Wed Jul 29, 2015 5:01 am  

don't think people are moaning about the venue as ,much as the ridiculous decision to play on a Friday night.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Friday night Semi : Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:41 am  

Leaguefan wrote:

The game sold its soul and control to tv a long time ago. Why are people only just realising this?.

When did we sell out to the bbc? I must have missed that

Re: Friday night Semi : Wed Jul 29, 2015 9:14 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

When did we sell out to the bbc? I must have missed that

Depends upon how old you are