Newcastle game wont take place next week and has been moved to June 6th. Confirmed now.by the club

Makes sense, We can watch super duper league instead !!!

Rather watch Eastenders, its less depressing.

sensible decision to move game at least.

Think a week off actually comes at the right time as we were looking a bit battered and bruised after Swinton. Hopefully fresh for a big game against London the week after

True.

How is this the case what total rubbish .

Friday St'Hellens were on and i had the batley sheffield game playing on our league both were on at the same time

Maybe worth asking Sky Sports as they aren't streaming any game Monday and Swinton and Featherstone can get all Season Ticket holders in, so any Bulls Season Ticket holder who is unable to attend wouldn't of been able to watch the game on Monday, now its on the 6th June the streaming option is available, streaming was offered as part of Season Ticket if unable to attend.

Simple, sky allowed it then, won’t allow it this week. Presumably there were several games planned for Monday which would have taken greater numbers from sky game. Let’s be honest, if sky have a controlling contract, they can one week, and not the week after, if they want to

Simple really. The Saints game was a Challenge cup game.
The challenge cup is broadcast under a completey different broadcast contract to Superleage games.

Seemed a bit silly planning to play on a Monday anyway. I understand they want to get gate receipts coming in again but can’t see a massive gate (even for first game we’re able to attend in a year), when most people have work or school following day. factoring in extra time to travel dewsbury It would mean not getting home till 11pm on a weeknight.

Think the theory was enough people would have gone even on a Monday night, surely? After a year away from rugby I think they would have got >1000

We haven't got a physical ticket yet though have we? Obviously this is due to the knotty problem of Odsal coming back into the reckoning, but (seating) tickets can't be issued until it's sorted, so it puts even more pressure on.

How many of those would actually be paying though?. It’s been mentioned we still have a four figure number of season tickets who all have to be allocated a spot out of whatever restricted attendance we’re allowed. So might only be scope for a few hundred actual ticket sales against whic club has to factor in extra costs of opening ground.

The simple answer is we have more seasons ticket holders than would be available to be admitted to watch the game if it was played at Dewsbury.

The club have made the best decision available to them and Newcastle should be congratulated with agreeing to the request to move this fixture for a second time.

Totally agree decision made is best option. Wasn't a good decision to move it to the Monday in the first place though.

There are five super league fixtures being played on Monday night. Are they all stupid too?

Yes for same reasons.

Fair enough

In defence of the original decision, that was made before Sky Sports issued their blackout which made it impossible for the club to proceed with the original plan.

Can you imagine the uproar amongst the season ticket holders when they would have found out that admittance to the first game with fans would have to be done via a ballot with nearly half not able to attend or watch it on the stream.

All the other Super League games taking place on Monday are unaffected because each club at home can accommodate their season ticket holders.

So Mick, are you saying that the new date will be at Odsal where there is more capacity to fit all season ticket holders in?

That's certainly the plan. Just wait for official confirmation though.

We have a home game against York to factor in first before the rearranged Newcastle game. I wonder what the venue us going to be for that game?

Given we can have 50% capacity at Dewsbury if imaging that would allow for a crowd of 2500. Ive not seen any numbers but i cant imagine we have sold that many season tickets. Anyone got an idea of the nubers sold?

Quote ="RagingBull"We have a home game against York to factor in first before the rearranged Newcastle game. I wonder what the venue us going to be for that game? Given we can have 50% capacity at Dewsbury if imaging that would allow for a crowd of 2500. Ive not seen any numbers but i cant imagine we have sold that many season tickets. Anyone got an idea of the nubers sold?'" https://www.dewsburyrams.co.uk/2021/05/ ... s-stadium/ This is probably the most important bit What we do know already is that our ground capacity is likely to be capped at less than 700 and we will have around 150 seats available in the main stand

Quote ="RagingBull"We have a home game against York to factor in first before the rearranged Newcastle game. I wonder what the venue us going to be for that game? Given we can have 50% capacity at Dewsbury if imaging that would allow for a crowd of 2500. Ive not seen any numbers but i cant imagine we have sold that many season tickets. Anyone got an idea of the nubers sold?'" https://www.dewsburyrams.co.uk/2021/05/ ... s-stadium/ This is probably the most important bit What we do know already is that our ground capacity is likely to be capped at less than 700 and we will have around 150 seats available in the main stand

Thanks thats very interesting. Think we all expected more than that.
Lets hope we can get odsal sorted before the York game then.

I suppose if you're trying to keep a distance between people then it will always be less than half capacity. You need to leave room in front, behind and at the side of each bubble of people.