Congrats to Cas on the win, and all the best for the remainder of the playoffs.

My Dad and his mates are the same. They won't go to Belle Vue on a Thursday or Friday night. Both are retired, and both say it's too long a day having to wait for a 7.45pm kick off.

Agree with the Thursday & Friday games. Mind you, I find great enjoying Sunday afternoon's in the championship.

During the season there is a balance to be struck with corporate hospitality. But that only applies to Friday games. Thursdays are purely about TV money.

Fridays nights maybe less appealing for the oaps, but Thursdays put off families, away fans, oaps, anyone working close to late. In short pretty much everyone.

SL need to get a handle on their contract writing. Playoffs should never be on a Thursday. It's not part of corporate scheduling so you could say all playoffs on Saturdays and Sundays only.

Spot on

Yes but sky pay the money and without them we would have to go back to part time rugby league do we want that

Just watched the game back. In the Sky commentary I'm sure Phil Clarke says "come on the Wolves" about the 70 minute mark.

I don’t know anyone who likes Thursday games but Sky are our paymasters and if they want to show games on a Thursday and we want the money then that’s when they’ll be.

People saying they won’t go because it’s Thursday, won’t go on a Friday as they only like weekend games or whatever reason they are coming up with is just an excuse. Fans seem to be finding reasons not to go rather than finding reasons to go. It’s like some people prefer having a whinge more than attending a game.

Thursdays will no doubt be difficult for some, especially if you have young children but they don’t come around that often. Football fans manage to fill stadia on Monday’s, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

I’d say to those people get off you’re behind and support your game otherwise it probably won’t survive never mind prosper.

bore off Trainman. Don't start bringing logic into this..

Exactly! I’ve used the same argument for a long time. Football take thousands, mid week, a lot further than we normally have to travel.

The best supported football teams are better supported than the top 4 SL teams. RL is a minority sport.

In football demand exceeds supply. So there are bucket loads who can make up the shortfall.

In RL, you can maybe double a home attendance and still have room to spare.

Simple maths: if you have a room that holds 10 people and five people can't stay it will be half full.

If you have a room that holds 10 people with a queue of 20 outside, then if 5 people go can't stay in the room and 10 people outside can't stay the room will still look full.


That's the difference, except in RL the room was never full in the first place.