Khlav Kalash wrote:
Bizarre, way to further reduce the gate. 3pm Saturday pretty much clashes with most football fixtures. Why not the regular game day of Sunday?
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.”Thr first reason doesn't make a great deal of sense as the way the away games fall it would would have been at least 6 days between games if played on the sunday anyway. In fact it actually shortens the gap between the Hull KR game and the home game against Widnes. So i would say the main reason is to test the water regarding playing saturdays from next year, possibly with an eye to leaving Belle Vue.