All 21 SL fixtures in August are going to be on Sky.

I’m not sure whether home advantage really exists without crowds. ATEOTD it’s about keeping costs to a minimum and the sports survival so if it turns out to be an advantage so be it.

We should be looking to get teams playing in their own grounds when crowds are allowed to return

There was a rumour that all games were to be played at neutral grounds. So what was so difficult in arranging that?
Having three clubs playing on their own grounds is ridiculous.
Who's responsible for this nonsense, RFL or SL?

But on freebie Sky (Sky Sports Mix, etc) or 'Sky Sky'?

Booked our flights tonight for Toronto away in October. Really looking forward to it now.

It is what it is. I don't care where we play as long as i can get to see it. Look at it this way, we get to laugh at Warrington for not being able to win it by having a clear advantage.

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Anyone moaning about it not being "Fair" because of the home and away issue really need to get a grip.
Given the circumstances and reality, costs need to be kept to a minimum, safety to a maximum.

If you think for one second that players/coaches will be complaining about it your living in dream world.

Get the game going, let fans enjoy the games on TV and anyone complaining for christs sake give your head a wobble.

Sky Sports, so that their televising equipment can be left at just the three grounds and not moved around to different grounds like in Football.

Surprised that it is not just Leeds and Warrington, who are both on the M62 corridor.

Yes on Sky

until further notice nobody should play any games at home,any leeds games could be played at Huddersfield and visa versa like we are playing Leeds at stains ground it's just something that we need to get on with and think ourselves lucky that we are even playing

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Haha phew!

Specific channels not listed/decided as yet. On the Sky Sports RL website ('On Sky' section) they are all listed simply as Sky Sports. As with the soccer I would guess most would be on the subscription sports channels with a few appearing on Sky Sports Mix or on Pick.

I thought the return of football was farcical but this is ridiculous

What is specifically ?
Do you mean we shouldnt be playing?

Will they be in each others faces after scoring a try like when they are after scoring a goal in football?

Sorry, I forgot those in sport are exempt from social distance regulations imposed on the rest of us!

Neutral grounds, but only for some teams. I guess we know which clubs aholes the RFL are up. No surprises really.

Wigan play Leeds at St Helens, whilst The DW (and Robin Park for that matter) is perfectly covid free with additional changing rooms.

Are sky going to play crowd noise? So basically every time you watch Leeds all you can hear is some trumpet and cries of foooorwaaaard.

At least the Saints fans will be muted

I was just putting together a post to show that there would be no "Home Advantage".

e.g. Warrington's first match is a "home" fixture against Hull KR, played at Headingley, followed by Huddersfield "away" at Saints
Saints have a "home" game against Catalans, also at Headingley, but then have Leeds at Headingley, followed by Wakefield at their own ground.

This should have been pïss simple.

Either all teams use their own grounds or (more likely), you have 3 or 4 grounds (as they have), but 2 grounds are used each weekend.
e.g. Saints host 3 matches on Saturday and Leeds host 3 on Sunday.
NO team is allowed to play at their home ground.
If Leeds & Saints are due to meet, it happens at Wire.
It's easy.

Typical SL/RFL half-d .

On the up-side, at least we get the game back.

Be very interested to see how the money is split though, given that we have a perfectly good stadium, certified COVID-19 free for football, that is going unused.
Do those 3 clubs get extra money that the rest don't, for the use of the stadia?

If the RFL were so worried about testing and Covid free grounds then why didn't they have the neutral grounds at Hull FC, Hudds and Wigan where they are Covid free and testing for soccer.

So simple yet they have made such a complete and utter dogs breakfast.

Without getting into the detail of every point

Have you ever thought there may be "Reasons We don't know about" behind why the grounds have been selected/Not selected
The DW for example - Maybe there are "Other issues" - Football rules/regs issues that meant Football stadia couldn't be used? Maybe by keeping it to RL owned stadia only the shared costs to all clubs may be lower & Easier to organise - You know, to make it better/Cost effective for RL as a whole

For a start I have a bit of an insight into How hard it was to get the DW up & running for Football and how much it cost etc.
Also How the areas are divided up within the stadium and categorized Red/Amber/Green etc. so each set of people can only enter each one etc. The complications are massive.

Look at what happened with Joffra Archer yesterday - 1 slip up could have put the whole series off and costs tens of Millions!!!!

The sport needs the TV Money - We need to get the game back on and we need to do it in the most cost effective/safe way we can

Can't wait for it to start again and couldn't give a Toss where they play!!!!!

Either all teams use their own grounds or (more likely), you have 3 or 4 grounds (as they have), but 2 grounds are used each weekend.
e.g. Saints host 3 matches on Saturday and Leeds host 3 on Sunday.
NO team is allowed to play at their home ground.
If Leeds & Saints are due to meet, it happens at Wire.
It's easy.

Typical SL/RFL half-d rubbish.

On the up-side, at least we get the game back.




Couldn’t agree more, every game played on a neutral field.

There may be "things we don't know about" that was bound to apply. It also doesn't mean difficulties can't be overcome.
As for the set up structures and costs, those have already been met at Hudds, Hull and Wigan and I'm sure the running costs are not small either.
I do think it could have been handled much better and I'd be interested to know if the use of the three dual use grounds had been considered which are Covid free.
How it will all pan out I don't know. Johnson has been on the tv confusing things even more. Then there's Oxford Uni and Astra Z saying their vaccine will be ready by September. A Vaccine would change everything, and for the better. For people who get vaccinated it could be back to almost normal very soon.

So your not worried about increased travel then?
What issues that may create? Saints V Wigan but we have to travel over the Headingley?
There are Hundreds of issues involved in getting the game back on - we don't know about 99% of them

Listen I am sure that all those that are "Upset" because a game that's behind closed doors, with no fans etc. because "Hypothetically" give certain teams (Leeds/Warrington/Saints are getting the stick for this) when in reality the advantage hardly exists and anyone playing in those games won't give a shiny S**t about it may want to keep harping on about it

The reality is that None of us have 5% of the info needed to make a call on why things have to be done the way they've been done. Speculating about X Y Z without knowing the background is pointless, especially over something as trivial as Home or Neutral ground Which, from the horses mouth of one of Wigan's staff "No-ones bothered about".