So I go back to my original point then - Twitter hype followed by crap announcement that doesn't actually tell you what you want to know.

RFL directive was for clubs to just announce their first home game and NOT give to give any indication of what round it was to be played. A couple or three clubs have cocked that up though and and announced round one fixtures meaning it can be worked out.

I can't disagree with that!

So in fact, surprisingly, another ridiculous decision by the RFL

What's the point of announcing one fixture early, either just give them all out or don't give any till Monday.

The people in charge of this great game are an absolute waste of skin in my carefully considerd opinion.

It's a taster and an announcement to keep RL in the media to build up momentum for the fixture release on Monday. Good PR in my opinion

#chaosmarketing you cant beat it!!!

We have a winner



They should keep them under wraps untill monday and then officially announce them.


Its not hard is it.

its not hard either to have the teams who were away 1st game last year to be at home 1st game this year??

Wonder if Bradford game will be on tv?

I don't view announcing fixtures as 'exciting news'. If it is that exciting then let me feed more to you. We're going to play all other SL teams home and away next season!
I personally don't give a monkeys if it's cleckhuddersfax home or away for the first fixture and it certainly doesn't come under the exciting news heading as far as I'm concerned. let me get back to my painting and somebody tell me when there's something worth reading about!

We'll not be there if that's the case!

Bradford then HKR - not a bad start to the season in terms of difficulty; 4 from 2, or I'll be calling for Richard Agar's bonce.

^^^^^^ this.

^^^^^ and this.

I have a feeling, more than being about the first fixture, it was more about getting people to follow official club accounts on twitter... not sure how successful it has been.

Either way, at 2 of our early fixtures are winable

I don't see any need for negativity - it's fairly obvious that the RFL and clubs are trying to increase the profile of RL on social media, so this was a way of enticing more people to follow their respective clubs on Twitter; not the best executed strategy, but hardly a cause for anxiety.

It does have an inkling of the hopeful about it - if the governing body and the member clubs are going to work together on more positive marketing of RL, that can only be a good thing; provided that both learn from these early experiments and get better, then I send power to their elbows.

'Exciting news'?!? This reminds me of a trip I once made to Cedar Court!

That turned out well for the club though.
New Stands and 1873 club. Sometmes we underestimate the significance of the income from the 1873 club, more people should join

No one turned up expecting it to be all about a lottery and a tin roof!!!

With fans like you, who needs bigalf?

Were you really 'excited' to find out our first game?

He's right though, there's a fair amount of overkill used to describe fairly mediocre stuff.
Wether that's describing club events, larging up par SL players or turning this years England team into the Harlem globe trotters!!
This you know!!

Hull KR first home game?

Same as last year then, lets hope the scoreline is better than last time round!

That seems to be the case across all forms of media in the increasingly rubbish modern world, where everything is 'amazing' or 'incredible' and everyone is either a 'genius' or a 'legend.'

If they'd have said, "Watch Twitter at 12 noon tomorrow for some vaguely interesting news," it may have been more truthful, but it would hardly have garnered the same attention!

Its called marketing live with it, I would rather queue at the Ceder Court for what we got than go to the Old Cats Bar listening to some of the points of the previous regime. At least the club is making every effort to move forward so either be part of it or not its an individual chioce but for all positive things there is always a negative somewhere.