Most SuperLeague teams are use to having the occassional Sunday/Friday turn around. This week it appeared that Wigan may have suffered from having a shorter Monday/Friday. I wonder how the fixture change of the Widnes game to a Thursday night will affect us? OR...are we looking at the possibility there will be another fixture change announcement for the Wakefield game?

The Wakefield game won't be changed as Sky have Wigan vs Huddersfield on Friday 9th August, and the Hull derby on the Sunday.



Look on the bright side, if we get there again it means extra Cup Final preparation time.

They are FULL TIME PROFESSIONALS, it doesn't and shouldn't matter one bit. Championship players have been doing it alongside full time 'real' jobs without all the recovery support available in SL.

Widnes also play on the Sunday so there is no advantage/disadvantage to either side.

The change of day for the Widnes game means I won't be able to go. I was working on the Friday & off on the Thursday but I swooped with a Colleague when the list came out. He has now made commitments and doesn't want to change back.



Fixture changing by Sky is the main reason why I don't buy a ST. When the list comes out each December I troll through my shifts for the following year and book days off to ensure I can go to as many games as poss, but then Sky come along & beggar it all up.

Of course it matters. The players are humans not robots. Fatigue is bound to kick in!

If Championship players can do it without any issue so can SL players!!!

All depends what quality you want to watch I suppose. If you want to watch players that are shot at and defences leaking points galore, no problem.....enjoy!

Its highly unlikely that they do it "without any issue" as the demands on the body are relative, but Super League is faster and more powerful, every day makes a difference to preparation. Every effort is taken to begin to prepare for the next game as soon as possible, hence the ice baths, cryo chambers, swimming and rehab, take a few days out of that prep and it causes issues.

I presume you haven't watched any Championship rugby league this year....

Say you work an 8 hour day, and finish at say 6pm. You find out that one day you're required to come in at 2am instead of 10. Is this going to have an affect on you, physically? Or because you're a 'Full time professional' you should be required to perform within any given notice period, to the same level, without feeling fatigue?

Warrington changed the Hudds fixture to a Friday the week before the Widnes game at easter, the widnes game at the end of the season which is now a Thursday was originally a friday as the cup final is the week after. That tells you all you need to know about whether coaches think players need as much time as possible to prepare for games.