afootingmiracle21-12 wrote:Its not two weeks though is it?...play Catalans on Saturday, Toulouse on Thursday or Friday or vice versa. Makes much more sense to me.
You say teams wouldn't want their players there, but what they going to do back home other than train. Some warmer weather training will have benefits and also help them prepare for the 2nd game....plus its a 5/6 day opportunity for team building and developing team / tour spirit which you usually only get pre-season.

Its a great opportunity all clubs should jump at imo. .....the only challenge i see is small minded chairmen who will only see the cost of 5/6 days in hotels, rather than opportunity and benefit this brings. Yet, if they stopped looking at this negatively, even they would see that we can probably bring a tour operator as sponsor (to do all the fans packages) who would be only too happy to cover these costs for the deal.....Now thats a trade off sponsor with ACTUAL value...much better than free livery on lorrys and free pizzas ....Toronto achieved it with Air Canada....they could go and talk to them for some tips if they hadn't been equally small minded to kick them out.

Its no wonder the game has never reached its potential with the level of small minded ambition we have from not only fans, but those who are running the game!

Quote:“Fortunately our strength is our sponsors,” he said. “We have a huge business network and before Covid we generated 1.6 to 1.7 million euros in sponsorship.

wrencat1873 wrote:Would be great for the fans but, clubs are unlikely to want to have their players in France all week and wouldn't want to go over there 2 weeks on the bounce.
What may work is if they played the 2 French games, say Friday and Monday, which would give fans chance to visit both places, even if their own side was only playing in one of the games ?
Equally, I know that places like Castleford and Wigan may not be the greatest places to spend the night bur, there could be some opportunities in the opposite direction. There are some great places to visit "up North".

Saddened! wrote:The Catalans and Toulouse away in a week idea is genius

orangeman wrote:Its hardly rocket surgery.

orangeman wrote:Its hardly rocket surgery.

snowie wrote::lol: thought it was either brain surgery or rocket science never heard rocket surgery

orangeman wrote:Not sure what British sitcom it's from, but the expression it's neither rocket surgery nor brain science is one of my favourite expressions......it could be only fools...sound very delboy...like the world is your lobster

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:Yep good opportunities for reciprocal tourism outside of the actual matches which the league could look to for further sponsorship etc.

You could offer package deals with loads of excursions. Somewhere central like West Yorkshire gives you easy access to pretty much everywhere in Northern England.

Clearly that won’t happen though and they’ll get a sponsorship with pedigree chum as the official dog food of super league for 3 and 6 or something and bang on about that.