Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:14 am  

BESTY wrote:

If they organise some decent flights i don't see the difference between flying to France and sitting on a coach to Saints from a logistical point of view.

EMA to CCN flights on a Monday start from March, so no real problems.

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:28 am  

Maybe if the KC became unavailabe on the 12 August, due to a wedding fayre or a 5th birthday party or summat

Then we could play that weekend in France and rebook the home game....

Come on AP!

[Chris71]

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:40 am  

Standee wrote:

EMA to CCN flights on a Monday start from March, so no real problems.

All depends on flight times in and out. If they travelled by coach to Saints as the example given once the game is finished they can get back on the coach and be back that night ready to start the next day as normal. Taking into account the usual flight times, travel time to airport etc then this isnt possible and the team would lose in affect 2 days of preparation time.

Unless someone charters a plane direct to and from Humberside of course.

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:21 am  

Giraffe wrote:

That match in Beziers was part of the festival, which had a very Catalan flavour. It was a brilliant weekend (apart from the result and Yeamo's injury). The Dragons even had a beer stall in the square, promoting the club.

yes it was - a great weekend of festivities - a good game but bad news for travelling fans regarding availability of hotels & travelling etc
I enjoyed it and managed to book early at a hotel in Narbonne - hundreds of other fans were not so lucky - as I said,great day but bad planning IMO,Narbonne or Montpellier would have been a better venue for that weekend,again IMO

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:23 am  

Chris71 wrote:

Why should the home fixture with Catalans be changed to the away fixture? How does the club benefit from this apart from not travelling mid week?

I doubt Adam Pearson would want the club to lose the income stream of crowd on weekend for a crowd on a mid week, nor should it.

Not as easy as just swapping, still think best solution is the Exiles weekend or midweek at neutral venue in UK.

Disagree, Catalans at home in August is likely to be our lowest gate of the season with many families likely to be away on holiday, re-arranged midweek outside of school holidays would likely draw a bigger crowd. Midweek away in France would be bad news for the team and travelling fans.

If as being rumoured the Exiles game is to be held at the KC then I think that weekend would also be ruled out, so we are left with the option of a date if both teams get knocked out of the CC, an option we don't want to have but semi final weekend in July might work......no easy solutions, but I'm against midweek in France.

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:26 am  

hedon faithful wrote:

First conspiracy theory of the season.
Challenge cup draw
Wigan v Hull fc
Warrington v Catalan

2nd conspiracy theory
CC Draw
Catalan v Hull FC
them play re-arranged game tues / wed

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:26 am  

Standee wrote:

why, if it's going to be at the KC then they won't want that, and nor will FC fans......

who will the die-hard FC fans follow - England or FC ?

maybe the Cats v FC game could be shown on the big screen at the KC to keep everyone happy ?

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:28 am  

Gerrum on side ref wrote:

2nd conspiracy theory
CC Draw
Catalan v Hull FC
them play re-arranged game tues / wed

that would be the perfect solution

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:29 am  

Chris71 wrote:

All depends on flight times in and out. If they travelled by coach to Saints as the example given once the game is finished they can get back on the coach and be back that night ready to start the next day as normal. Taking into account the usual flight times, travel time to airport etc then this isnt possible and the team would lose in affect 2 days of preparation time.

Unless someone charters a plane direct to and from Humberside of course.

East Midlands is an hour, someone else flies ahead with luggage etc. Players arrive 30 minutes before flight, flight is 11:15am, arrive CCN at 14:15 (local time), at somewhere to train on the Monday evening by 7pm, train Tuesday, game Wednesday night, Thursday am flight back, next game Sunday.

losing 2 days is just not going to happen,1 day max (half day for each flight)

[Chris71]

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:42 pm  

Standee wrote:

East Midlands is an hour, someone else flies ahead with luggage etc. Players arrive 30 minutes before flight, flight is 11:15am, arrive CCN at 14:15 (local time), at somewhere to train on the Monday evening by 7pm, train Tuesday, game Wednesday night, Thursday am flight back, next game Sunday.

losing 2 days is just not going to happen,1 day max (half day for each flight)

Only an hour to EMA??? Thats some going even by motorbike. Even on a good day in my car it takes on average about 1.40hrs so around 2hours on coach. I do a run 2 to 3 times a week which passes EMA and I have a heavy right foot & I'd struggle to do it in an hour with clear roads.

The point I'm getting at is that it really breaks up the week and all the planned training structures they will now doubt be working to under Gentle. In reality no matter how you do it, it will not be far off losing the equivalent of 2 full days training.

I dont know what the perfect solution is as quite honestly there isn't one.

Why is the KC an issue if the Exiles game is to be held there? As I thought the whole point was for Hull FC to play Catalans the same weekend, which would be played in France??? The only issue is that no Hull or Catalans Players can be picked for England, Exiles, Knights or France.

That is for me the better and fairest solution.