https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/52755175 Regards EW

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/52755175 Regards EW

The switch to winter rugby that some fans have been wanting! Can't wait to see a big increase in crowds

There'll be 20k on at Hudds every week

Good to see plans for the return of RL. Seems a good plan with a mid August start and limited crowds by October.
The reserve league has been cancelled so an opportunity to give younger fringe players the chance to play first team.
The more games on the fixture list the better .

If you think that that people are going to flock in droves to watch Winter Rugby when more of the the new generation of supporters have been conditioned to watching games in the nicer weather of the Summer, you are living in a dream world.

As a older supporter, who spent most of the seasons watching the game played in the terrible Winter conditions like rain, smow, fog, freezing cold and players covered in mud, do I ever want the game to return to Winter just to suit a minority, some of whom I suspect have never experienced the realities of Winter Rugby.

Supporters already complain about games being played in February which more often than not the worse month of the year.

And what about the problems about ground sharing by clubs like Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Salford and Wigan or the the clubs who have the reserve and youth teams teams of football clubs playing at their grounds.

Even Rugby Union are considering a switch to Summer Rugby.

p.s. If it is any consolation, supporters might welcome it this year as a one off, because of the virus situation!

You must be joking when Huddersfield like many towns only get that for a Premiership Division football match!

The Reserve League may have been cancelled for that very reason.

If the number of games has to remain at twenty eight, clubs will have to rotate their squads more than normal and play more than one game per week in order to complete a full season of fixture, especially with the addition of the Challenge Cup.

I think he may be

The game coming back with reduced capacity was something I raised when the games were initially stopped. Teams like Wigan, Saints, Wire, Leeds have roughly half of their ground capacity made up of season ticket holders. Given the social distancing restrictions that will have to be adhered to just letting season ticket holders in may not be possible.

I think most of this went over Ruddy Ducks head

Whooossshhh! Of the highest order.

Not half as much as what goes over the heads of the average Rhinos supporter!

Salford and Huddersfield will be ok with letting ST holders in.

In fairness, just for Wigans 10k season ticket holders,with some imagination plenty of room at the DW surely?

And thats with an extra 2000 season ticket holders

It's not just the seating though. It's the stewarding. How do you get the fans into their seats with the two metre rule in place, and how do you get them to leave still keeping that distance and keep them apart on the concourses?

Shoot them

Grounds for a refund on your ticket surely

Wonder what the chances are that we'll play our games at Robin Park, rather than the DW. Not much point having the bigger stadium if you can't have any fans inside it.

Clearing the stadium should be pretty straightforward really. Just start to slowly empty the ground from 10 mins after halftime...

Poor comeback , try be a bit more witty !

If the football are also trying to play a condensed fixture list, then it may suit both parties. However I wouldn't want this to be decided unilaterally as it may be the catalyst to the stadium owners cancelling the tenancy agreement.

Doubt that’ll be financially viable for the Latics after this. If anything I can see this period strengthening our position regarding the stadium. I’m a Latics fan and these owners aren’t throwing huge money round. They seem sensible and look to have a long term plan to build a good academy and not spend money they don’t have.

As for the idea of playing at Robin Park, it seems sensible to me. The only point I’d wonder about is if they’d be worried about fans going down to try and watch games from a distance. It’s not as enclosed as the DW and the last thing the authorities would want us for 100’s of people all stood together trying to get a look at the action.

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its 100 year lease so they could cancel it and we would have to move out in 100 years or they could buy it off us

I heard a whisper today that Super League will return Thursday July 2nd