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Huddersfield at MM for Bradford.

Wonder where you heard that

How do you know we have Hudds at MM??

And 5 and a half hours to go until we know the fixtures

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... _fixtures/ 3 out of first 4 games at Odsal = good from a playing pov 3 home games at Odsal in Feb = not so good from a money pov? Calalans away in March again

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... _fixtures/ 3 out of first 4 games at Odsal = good from a playing pov 3 home games at Odsal in Feb = not so good from a money pov? Calalans away in March again

It appears that we are not playing Warrington at the HJ this season.

Well done the RFL.

Yes we are April 28th. T&a cockup.

So no Summer visit to Catalan. Again? And at a time even before most of the flights are running. Great. Again.

How come we have the Giants at MM? How has that been worked out?

MM does seem more balanced now to be fair:
Round 16 (Magic Weekend)
Saturday May 25
Salford City Reds v Widnes Vikings (12:00pm SKY)
Bradford Bulls v Huddersfield Giants (2:15pm SKY)
Hull FC v Hull KR (4:30pm SKY)
St Helens v Warrington Wolves (6:45pm SKY)
Sunday May 26
Catalan Dragons v London Broncos (3:00pm SKY)
Castleford Tigers v Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (5:15pm SKY)
Leeds Rhinos v Wigan Warriors (7:30pm SKY)

Huddersfield at MM works for me - a nice grudge match for us, and seems more winnable than another game against Leeds.

In fact, it looks like a decent set of fixtures all round. At this stage it looks like I'll be able to make all 13 home games next season

Was thinking the same about magic w/e alot more balanced, apart from catalan v london.

Also looks possible that leeds may lose the first game of the season and also at magic, dont think that has ever happened has it?

Yeah, yet [ianother[/i trip in March - to quote Ian Fleming, "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and three times is enemy action", well this must be the fifth time we've had March or early April, so I guess someone, somewhere doesn't like us!!

seems to be a lot of double fixtures for some reason, giving a lop sided effect. I know we all end up playing the same amount but we have consecutive home or away games 4 times over the season, and if you count the magic weekend as an away fixture we have 4 of those on the trot across the end of may/early june

It surely cant harm the team to not be playing Catalan at the height of summer when temperatures can be incredibly high. I can understand fans want a bit of a jolly but Spring in the South of France might be gorgeous.

Hudds website says that our MM fixture has changed to the Sun @ 17:15 ?? Seems strange that fixtures would get changed about less than 12 hours after release !!?! Anyone any wiser ?

Quote ="staffbull1973"Hudds website says that our MM fixture has changed to the Sun @ 17:15 ?? Seems strange that fixtures would get changed about less than 12 hours after release !!?! Anyone any wiser ?'" Its changed on the RFL website fixture list as well. This has been altered since 10am this morning when I first checked. Round 16 (Magic Weekend) Saturday May 25 Catalans Dragons v London Broncos 12pm - SKY Castleford Tigers v Wakefield Wildcats 2.15pm - SKY Hull FC v Hull Kingston Rovers 4.30pm - SKY St Helens v Warrington Wolves 6.45pm - SKY Sunday May 26 Salford City Reds v Widnes Vikings 3pm - SKY Bradford Bulls v Huddersfield Giants 5.15pm - SKY Leeds Rhinos v Wigan Warriors 7.30pm - SKY www.therfl.co.uk//~rflmedia/docs ... xtures.pdf

Quote ="staffbull1973"Hudds website says that our MM fixture has changed to the Sun @ 17:15 ?? Seems strange that fixtures would get changed about less than 12 hours after release !!?! Anyone any wiser ?'" Its changed on the RFL website fixture list as well. This has been altered since 10am this morning when I first checked. Round 16 (Magic Weekend) Saturday May 25 Catalans Dragons v London Broncos 12pm - SKY Castleford Tigers v Wakefield Wildcats 2.15pm - SKY Hull FC v Hull Kingston Rovers 4.30pm - SKY St Helens v Warrington Wolves 6.45pm - SKY Sunday May 26 Salford City Reds v Widnes Vikings 3pm - SKY Bradford Bulls v Huddersfield Giants 5.15pm - SKY Leeds Rhinos v Wigan Warriors 7.30pm - SKY www.therfl.co.uk//~rflmedia/docs ... xtures.pdf

I know we have the World Cup to accomodate in 2013, but in what is suposed to be the era of "summer rugby" still not sure why we have 4 games in February. If we have a sticky start to the season and the weather is bad - while I am sure the hard core will still turn up - it will be harder to keep the "floating voters" in the fold. For families with younger children I doubt February on the terrace at Odsal would be appealing.

Find it annoying how we play Leeds so close together. The Leeds games are the biggest of the season, yet we play them twice in space of 5 weeks.

For crying out loud. Odsal can be a spectacular venue in warm sunshine. Why has the RFL computer spat out 3x home fixtures in February?

It's a joke, and a disgraceful joke at that....

On the plus side, the Catalans fixture is at the beginning of the Easter hols.

No it's not. Easter hols in Bradford start the week after, Good Friday is the first day.

Getting home from that one by train is going to be a challenge.

a bit miffed the magic fixtures have been altered. The saturday suited fine with us second up then hang around for the hull derby and saints/wire before heading into manchester for the evening before heading back sunday morning. even had the hotel booked ! not as good now, will probably still just do the one day, spend the night in manc before going along on the sunday. Not sure on the later kick off times for the sunday either, my babysitting bill will certainly go up

It can be very erratic (not sure if that's [iexactly[/i the right word). It's usually a bit warmer than Bradford but it [ican[/i be blady cold and very windy. Looking back on the old piccies taken on previous early spring visits I look pretty well wrapped up on a few of them..

Already well up for the start of the season


Should be an excellent first fixture, we're fairly evenly matched with Wakefield and they'll bring lots of fans, as they always do. Playing three home games in the first four matches may help us get off to a good start, with the home advantage.
Although there's only one home game in March, we do play Salford at home on April 1. There's also two good away games in March at Huddersfield and Leeds.
Must admit I'm not a fan of playing Leeds in March and in May, would have preferred those two games to be more spread out.
Overall, I'm fairly happy with the fixtures.