If everything possible was done to get the game on was done then fair enough.
Imo watering the pitch the night before when its been freezing all week was the only thing they could think of then Imo that's not good enough. At the last minute they decide its off when some Catalan fans told us they had heard on thurs it was off.
They could of called it off on Saturday morning then a least 60 or so of us could of stayed in lloret instead of sat on a coach for 3 hours.

Talk on Saturday was june 17th exiles

so no players from Catalans or FC are involved in the Exiles game??

catalans fans have got that wrong. RFL rules do not allow a postponement of a game until 24 hours before the game at the earliest. The pitch was inspected 24 hours before and was playable at that stage.

correct,before the pitch had been watered on the friday evening and again on the saturday morning ! (according to local press reports this morning)

the Catalans reserve game went ahead as normal by the way, which is really taking the mickey...

On the same pitch?

nah,just down the road...

Fair enough - that would have been taking the proverbial

Yeah that's the offical rule. They knew it was never on.

Take it this was at St Esteve, which in reality wouldnt be big enough for the number of fans that would want to see the main event.

Is that where the Irregs played many moons ago?

The very one - hard to believe it staged a GB v France gaame in the 80's. reckon it would hold 3k at a very cozy and friendly squeeze.

Blimey - blazing sun and beer means my memory is hazy at best, but it's very small. Maybe the 18th man could retrieve the balls off the roof of the building at one end

as one of the unlucky ones who came out to perpignan it would be a nice gesture of the club to show the re-match free to air on hull fc tv, instead of on hull fc live

Suggest it to the club - although, TV rights would prevent them from showing it live. You may even be able to wrangle a free Hull FC live login and password out of them.

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Kudos to the fans who travelled. Nice to see some positive news about our club after all the recent heat and light.

Indeed.

McRae on Sportstalk. Blimey, forgotten how much he can talk.

There's rap artists who can't get as many words into a sentence as Bomber

You're not kidding.

So in summary, they should have known the pitch was unplayable earlier, it seems. The point I missed (might have drifted off) was how Bentham and the match commissioner decided on Friday it would be OK. Has this point been discussed. Would have thought that Bentham, a "confirmed" black and white, would have alerted his club to this earlier tbh.

I remember that too. The nature of our CC run certainly did us no favours. I remember one night getting ted as it ed it down. Only game I've ever left early. In the shadow of getting to Wembley it just seemed like such an insignificant game.

That interview with Bomber was done right after the second inspection and he's not in full possession of the facts at that point. The pitch was deemed playable on Friday afternoon because it [iwas[/i playable on Friday afternoon - it was only after being watered that the problems started. The whole 'we should have been told earlier' thing is a red herring - even Trent Robinson didn't know there was a problem until around 1pm on Saturday.

Bugger me, all Gene Kelly could manage was to sing in the rain

well said Kosh

the groundsmanship comes under the auspices of he Ville de Perpignan and not the club so no blame can be attached to the club or officials

it's a disaster that it cost the likes of the loyal Hull fans,people like me and all connected with the club a lot of money all due to the incompetance of a few clueless government workers - this cannot be allowed to happen again and the guilty party (ies) should be severly reprimanded

what kind of 'qualified' professional waters the pitch TWICE (once the night before and again the next morning, in freezing conditions ?

utter incompetance !

And having done so, that decision was supported by Kershaw.........priceless.

' The last time they had rain there was in January and the pitch was rock hard. That was an issue anyway. but how do you soften the ground? you put water on it.'

If it was an issue 24 hours before KO it should have been called off then....you dont water in sub zero temperatures.

All down to Kershaw's decision....numpty

he was a pretty crap referee, seems his skill has followed him as a match comissioner!?!?!?!?