You've got as many "newbies" Ins: Oliver Gildart (Leigh), Peta Hiku (North Queensland Cowboys), AJ Wallace (Bradford), Tyrone May (Catalans), Niall Evalds (Castleford), Jai Whitbread (Wakefield), Reiss Butterworth (Dewsbury), Kelepi Tanginoa (Wakefield)
And despite getting humiliated by Wigan when it mattered the thing ringing in your ears is the 100% commitment to silverware. A team your lot have rightly ridiculed for finishing 10th won't present any sort of challenge unfortunately.
Thanks, i know how many we’ve signed.
I think the stark difference is the clear out vs the replacement of legends. Yours can’t be any worse then the garbage you got rid of, so an obvious improvement. Ours are replacing quality players, so no guarantee of improvement.
Challenging for silverware, which is the aim is a process building for the full season, again like Wigan did after a shaky start. That’s forward thinking. Getting numerous drubbings off your back from the previous season as soon as possible is putting retrospective demons to bed which in my opinion provides a greater level of motivation. Factor in the usual derby discrepancies it’s going to be a tough old game
I still think 1-17 were comfortably stronger and will finish higher, but that first game could well be the defining one for you lot knowing another beating on the back of last season could get the wicked winds of change howling through west hull earlier then ever. Hence why you will win by 10
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So we now know the full fixture schedule for 2024.
R1: Hull KR (h) - Thursday, February 15 R2: Warrington (a) - Friday, February 23 R3: London (h) - Sunday, March 3 R4: Catalans (a) - Saturday, March 9 R5: Leigh (h), Saturday, March 16 Challenge Cup Round of 16 R6: Hull KR (a), Friday, March 29 R7: Huddersfield (h), Saturday, April 6 Challenge Cup quarter-finals R8: St Helens (a), Friday, April 19 R9: Leeds (h), Sunday, April 28 R10: Warrington (a), Friday, May 3 R11: London (a), Sunday, May 12 Challenge Cup semi-finals R12: Castleford (a), Friday, May 24 R13: Huddersfield (a), Friday, May 31 Challenge Cup final R14: Leeds (h), Saturday, June 15 R15: Warrington (h), Saturday, June 22 Mid-season international R16: Salford (a), Sunday, July 7 R17: Hull KR (h), Saturday, July 13 R18: Wigan (h), Saturday, July 20 R19: Catalans (a), Saturday, July 27 R20: St Helens (h), Saturday, August 3 R21: Leigh (a), Friday, August 9 R22: London (Magic), Saturday, August 17 R23: Wigan (a), Sunday, August 25 R24: Castleford (h), Saturday, August 31 R25: Leeds (a), Friday, September 6 R26: Salford (h), Saturday, September 14 R27: Catalans (h), Friday, September 20
June and July looks to be the toughest run of fixtures for the season with a trip to Catalan end of July then a visit from St's following weekend in August just for good measure.
Looks like the pitch must be getting relaid in May with no home games in that month.
I really enjoy long walks especially when they are taken by people I don't like!
Its great to see weekend fixtures again on Saturdays in particular, but you have to wonder with all the games being televised this year how that will work and when and how will they be spread over each weekend perhaps eventually we will see a true fixture list with adjustments for that fact.
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Steve0 wrote:How can we play rovers 3 times before we play Wigan once??
It is a strange one, you'd think that with all the technology available today they'd be able to have a fixture list where at the halfway stage every team would have played each other once.
Also worth noting we play our last home in April then we have no games in May and then the next home fixture in June is Leeds again.
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Chris71 wrote:It is a strange one, you'd think that with all the technology available today they'd be able to have a fixture list where at the halfway stage every team would have played each other once.
Also worth noting we play our last home in April then we have no games in May and then the next home fixture in June is Leeds again.
Wigan are the same, play Leigh 3 times before they play rhinos once, we only play Salford in round 16 and round 26 too...just seems like another baffling/ incompetent decision by the RFL, by round 22 should have played everyone home and away once...then move onto the loop fixtures
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Steve0 wrote:
Chris71 wrote:It is a strange one, you'd think that with all the technology available today they'd be able to have a fixture list where at the halfway stage every team would have played each other once.
Also worth noting we play our last home in April then we have no games in May and then the next home fixture in June is Leeds again.
Wigan are the same, play Leigh 3 times before they play rhinos once, we only play Salford in round 16 and round 26 too...just seems like another baffling/ incompetent decision by the RFL, by round 22 should have played everyone home and away once...then move onto the loop fixtures
I agree, you'd think they'd have all clubs playing each other home and away and then play the loop fixtures. The lopsided and stacked fixtures the RFL throw out probably doesn't help the game as a whole either. We see it so many times that the fixtures always have clubs playing the same teams in quick succession whilst having huge gaps with other teams.
Even with the loop fixtures and other considerations/complications its certainly possible to have the fixtures for the 12 clubs to play each other more evenly spread.
Knowing the RFL they are using spreadsheets to work the fixtures lists or a ZX Spectrum
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At 1st glance fixtures seem fairly spread out in terms of difficulty...but Hull are difficult to predict, if its a game against the top4 early in the season its maximum effort, Salford at home late in the season probably strolling about the field like its a friendly I hope and pray we sort out our end of season dropoffs!
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I hope and pray we sort out our end of season dropoffs!
