Well I have spent the last hour trying to find out the Super 8 and Grand Final dates but struggling with both. Can anyone help me with the Championship Grand Final date? Need to accept/decline a Stag Do early October and as I'm an optimist I want to ensure my dates fit with our season.

As far as I can tell, the RFL website, the HRLFC website, the Kingston Press website and even the B******d B***s website (which I deleted my browsing history after looking) don't seem to know.

Any ideas Fax Fans?

I don't think we are having a grand final, it's the middle eight. The Grand Final is for Championship one, I think!

7/8 Feb First Utility Super League starts
14/15 Feb Kingstone Press Championship starts
3 April Good Friday Games
4/5 April Kingstone Press League 1 starts
6 April Easter Monday Games (Super League & Championship)
23/24 May Summer Bash, Bloomfield Road, Blackpool
29 Aug Challenge Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London
20 Sept League 1 Promotion Final
26/27 Sept Championship Shield Semi-Finals & League 1 Play-Offs
1/2 Oct Super League Play-Offs
3 Oct The Million Pound Game
4 Oct Championship Shield Final & League 1 Play-Off Final
10 Oct Super League Grand Final

Click on "View Dates And Fixtures" here - [urlhttp://www.extraordinaryrugby.com/[/url

Cheers guys.

I'll take from that last post that whatever the format, Our last game will [hopefully be 3rd Oct.

Thank you....huge help

Steve

Or will it be the 4th if we don't get in the middle 8? Is the Championship playoff for the bottom 8 ?

I've no idea so these are genuine questions.

If we get in the middle 8, then our last game will be mid-Sept (I'm guessing the 20th) if we come 1st thru 3rd or 6th thru 8th. Otherwise 3rd Oct if we come 4th or 5th (for the playoff for Super League in 2016).

If we're in the third 8 and come 5th thru 8th then again it's mid-Sept. If we come 1st thru 4th then it's 26/27 Sept for the semi-final playoff and potentially 4th Oct for the final.

Any which way, our last possible game is on 4th October.

And People wonder why our game is struggling! You cant really plan anything, as nobody really knows whats Happening, when and where. Its this clueless leadership that has seen our game drift along aimlessly to this joke of a System. I wonder how Long this System will last as the RFL seem to not be able to last more than a couple of years without thoughtlessly changing things with more spin coming from Big Nige saying "this is a new era and the games never been better" etc. For all the faults and mistakes that our Club has made over the years, its the RFL and its poor leadership that is killing my interest in the Pro game in the UK. At the Moment I have Little interest in the coming season, as it is just a RFLspin System that has no thoughts about what it actually hopes to achieve and I cant see it doing Fax or other Clubs like Fev, Sheffield, Leigh much good at all. A simply League with P and R at the end was all what was required with the end of DRs and Clubs in Sl and Championship forced to run U20s/Reserve Team-if they cant afford then drop down a Level!

I couldn't agree more. The best game in the world run by utter buffoons.

Can't argue with that. Idiots driving the game into the dust.

So I presume when we finish the Championship games its straight into the Super 8's or Championship Shield games?

What happens if we don't make the middle eight?

The middle eight will have a 4th v 5th "Grand Final". And the bottom eight will have a top four play-off with a "Grand Final".

As regular readers will know I am at least two chips short of six penny worth, so this new format is well and truelly beyond me . So, what I have done, apart from the three weeks I will be away in June, is make sure I will be available for any dates up until the end of the season. That way I don't have to worry about middle eight, over weight or super weight, playoffs, tossoffs, grand finals, xfactor finals, or whatever they can throw at us. Just enjoy each and every game.
Simple.
Can't wait.

So you'll be enjoying each and every game, SO, every game will count! the RFL will love you HJ.

Every game counts for me, perhaps that's sad, I accept the RFL are far from perfect (mildly put) but I have to accept the game as it is. What's my alternative, sitting in a pub going Mmmmm? or sitting in the East Stand with my excellent chips and OUR team playing.
Can't wait.
O' h before they start, it will be OUR team.

Well said HJ. I can't wait for season to start. See you at Hull KR. Supporting fax. That's the team in blue n white hoops



Enjoy you chips.

Not if HKR are picking OUR team it won't be. Grove, shudds. Kent Pale 4.0 % Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Neil, thanks, I will enjoy my Rugby and my chips.
Mmmmmmmmm

cant be bothered.

Poor leadership isn't unique to the pro game, they are making a complete mess of the amateur game as well. I really do fear for the future of the sport

It seems your right Leon, spoke to both an Illingworth and a Boothtown player this very morning and they told me the same.
If you look on the Pennine League Website their are only half a dozen teams named in the Premier League!
Perhaps Dual Reg is the way forward.

irrespective of the RFL's view, Rugby League is in the same poor state that it was prior to the arrival of the Murdock millions. We have a small group of successful teams, a small group of teams sustained by individuals, a few broke teams, a few teams with logical ambitions for their size and a group of teams with little ambition other than lasting the season. Fans unhappy and the numbers watching live dwindling away. The cash no longer compares with that available in Union.

The junior game remains lacking in leadership, suffering a dwindling of players and resources and fragmented competive structure.

Against this background we also have a resurgent, fully professional, relatively well run, multi-national and nationally organised rugby union organisation, that is dedicated to attracting the next generation of players and supporters. Irrespective if you as an individual like the sport or not it is now clearly the premier code in most regards in the UK, certainly in spectator numbers, players salaries and spectator facilities.

So what is needed is a root and branch review of League, not tinkering, sadly the present administrators do not have either the wit or the will.

Yup

Sadly Howard that is all true and when you look at what RU offers as a spectacle, as opposed to RL, ot is even more galling.

This will be the 6th year of Dual Reg so i would say its definitely the way forward