I fully support the sentiment but the reality is, it's nothing new in the age of wall-to-wall televised sport.

As a football supporter I've lost count of the number of rail tickets (a Leeds-London return can cost £210+), hotels and various other costs that I've incurred due to TV rearrangements - it happens. As much as I support the petition, unless somebody can suggest an alternative source of funding Sky are going to take some influencing.

So it's ok to petition the other club chairmen with your complaint, but not the chairman of your own club lest you upset him and he storms off in a huff?

Do you not think such blatant self interest dilutes the point you're trying to make?

Fully aware that Soccer and Union fans have had this for years. The point here is that:
a/ Catalans fixtures have always remained untouched in the reg season since they joined.
b/ Sky have picked this game to test the water. Imagine if they had picked this weekends Leeds game????
c/ If the people I contact (see above list) decide to let this go without raising a concern, then it will happen again and it could be you.

As has been pointed out, this fixture change hasn't bothered me, because if I do go, I will only book at the last minute anyway due to work, but I refuse to shrig my shoulders and let SKY ride roughshod over the RL community.

no they don't, i wish people luck, just not holding my breath, tbh it cost me a load of money and i was nobbed off and thus shared my story.
i do believe however as stated b4 you've got little or no chance of changing things.

sorry to be the prophet of doom and all that

They did it for the fixture where it would affect the least supporters, still wrong but at least they haven't done it for a fixture say against Wigan/Warrington/Hull or Rovers

we know, i made the jorney to perpignan 4 times in the past 2 years, that was not the point i was making, read what people are saying before criticising folk, reality is a vicious mother! your not going to change any thing! oh and when it happens to me i'll be fooked off as well.

One of the reasons for not including DH is the fact he has funded the club over the years, but if you want the MAJOR reason, I suggest you read through 6 years of my "we are crap at everything marketing" rants on here. Mr Hughes knows fully my stance on various issues at the club and it would quite honestly, be a waste of virtual ink to bother him.

As for blatant self interest? You are havin' a bubble mate! I have done this with no self interest or even club interest at heart.....just the interest of all RL fans. HTH

Actually the two words that spring to my mind on reading your post are "clueless" and "totally".

Quins v Bradford was not "bumped" anywhere, it was scheduled for Sunday 8 Feb when the fixtures were first released. Unfortuntely due to the most severe cold snap in London for nearly twenty years it had to be postponed because the protective covers on the pitch froze to the surface and would have ripped up the pitch if they had been removed. I'm sorry for any Bradford fans who lost money on pre-paid travel/accommodation etc., but this could have happened to any away supporters attending any match.

Bizarrely, some Bradford fans then expected us to cancel a game with Manly in order to rearrange their fixture at just two weeks notice, at a time of the year when there could easily have been another weather-induced postponement, meaning anyone needing train tickets or hotel accommodation would stand no chance of obtaining the cheapest rates.

Unless one team or the other reached the Challenge Cup semi final there was always going to be at least one free weekend in the summer on which this fixture could be rescheduled, and that is exactly what has happened. Bradford fans get almost three months notice of a fixture now scheduled for Saturday 8 August - plenty of time to book train tickets at not much more than a tenner each way and cheap hotel rooms at a Travelodge or similar if necessary. The parallels between this and the postponement by 24 hours of Catalans v Quins by a television company, after travelling supporters had booked in advance on the basis than Catalans have always played on Saturday evenings (except on a couple of Bank Holiday weekends) are not immediately apparent to me.

I think [I stand to be corrected] that the point of GF's poll here is exactly to try to protect all the supporters of all the other clubs.......this isn't about getting SKY et al to change this particular Quins fixture as I suspect it's done and dusted and we have to live with it, but it is to give some indication of the feeling of supporters of other clubs who may now face this issue later this season and the next ones, as another poster has said it was a toe in the water test to see if anybody would raise objections and picking the Quins game was a good tester for them.

Yet.

Can you say with all certainty that when next years fixtures come out that people will be booking to go to France in droves if there is a chance it can happen again? Maybe we can't win this battle but maybe we can stop them doing this to others.