2024 Fixtures

[Gooleboy]

17 hours ago, POR said:

I see that Halifax have got two League 1 clubs.

[agoodsteakdinner]

BATLEY V FEV SUNDAY 17TH MARCH 2PM

[agoodsteakdinner]

FEV V WAKEFIELD GOOD FRIDAY FRI 29TH 6PM

[POR]

1 hour ago, Gooleboy said:

I see that Halifax have got two League 1 clubs.

That's true G but  Oldham have put together a squad of very good championship players with some old heads and young guns from SL including one of our own mates Logan Astley so don't think Fax will have it their own way

[Gooleboy]

3 minutes ago, POR said:

That's true G but  Oldham have put together a squad of very good championship players with some old heads and young guns from SL including one of our own mates Logan Astley so don't think Fax will have it their own way

Fair comment.

[POR]

Rovers will welcome Championship new boys Wakefield Trinity for the 2024 Home Opener in a Good Friday blockbuster! 

SO  reading between the lines we have two  away games  to start the season on the 17th and 24th

[The Phantom Horseman]

57 minutes ago, POR said:

Rovers will welcome Championship new boys Wakefield Trinity for the 2024 Home Opener in a Good Friday blockbuster! 

SO  reading between the lines we have two  away games  to start the season on the 17th and 24th

Possibly not, as the weekend of the 24th is earmarked for Challenge Cup round 6. That's the first round that SL clubs enter the comp. If I have understood the way the CC works, there will be 4 Championship (or L1/amateur) clubs left in by that stage. So I'm not sure if the Championship will stage games that weekend with the likelihood of 4 teams still being involved in the Cup.

Edited December 2, 2023 by The Phantom Horseman

[POR]

2 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Possibly not, as the weekend of the 24th is earmarked for Challenge Cup round 6. That's the first round that SL clubs enter the comp. If I have understood the way the CC works, there will be 4 Championship (or L1/amateur) clubs left in by that stage. So I'm not sure if theChampionship will stage games that weeknd with the likelihood of 4 teams still being involved in the Cup.

Cheers PH so we away in the league on 17th  AND 

C%$ at home in the cup on the 24th 

[POR]

Here we go 

[POR]

Interesting first day fixtures TO still playing their away games on a Saturday at the Eagles and Wakey take on Bulls on Friday night

[Wolfey Rovers]

Fixtures list is out

[marklaspalmas]

One thing I've noticed about the fixture list is that it will make a real difference in the early weeks whether we get a good run in the Cups or not.

Scenario 1. We lose at Batley in the 1895 Cup and get a tough draw in the Challenge Cup and go straight out. That means we play FOUR matches in the first NINE weeks of the season. 

Scenario 2. We beat Batley, get on a good Cup run. We'll play EIGHT of the first NINE weeks.

After that, it settles down. In the remaining 28 weeks we have 25 league games, plus theoretically CCQF, 1895 SF and 1895 Final.

Depending on cup runs and playoffs we could have anything between 29 and 38 fixtures in 2024.

 

[Fevrover]

1 hour ago, marklaspalmas said:

One thing I've noticed about the fixture list is that it will make a real difference in the early weeks whether we get a good run in the Cups or not.

Scenario 1. We lose at Batley in the 1895 Cup and get a tough draw in the Challenge Cup and go straight out. That means we play FOUR matches in the first NINE weeks of the season. 

Scenario 2. We beat Batley, get on a good Cup run. We'll play EIGHT of the first NINE weeks.

After that, it settles down. In the remaining 28 weeks we have 25 league games, plus theoretically CCQF, 1895 SF and 1895 Final.

Depending on cup runs and playoffs we could have anything between 29 and 38 fixtures in 2024.

 

Haven't we got to beat Hunslet as well as Batley?

[The Phantom Horseman]

9 minutes ago, Fevrover said:

Haven't we got to beat Hunslet as well as Batley?

If we get beaten by Batley we're presumably going to struggle to qualify for the next phase as Batley will be expected to win at Hunslet too.

Edited December 4, 2023 by The Phantom Horseman

[marklaspalmas]

4 hours ago, Fevrover said:

Haven't we got to beat Hunslet as well as Batley?

Yeah, but if we don't beat Batley we're out. There's a second placed club that will make the QFs as fastest loser given there are 7 groups and 8 quarter finalists, but still....

[lingaro]

On 01/12/2023 at 14:37, POR said:

Cup games M so shared gate money

Be better playing at home then