Originally Posted by
SPaRTAN
Well it's a slippery slope isn't it. They did this with Super rugby and alienated an entire future generation of fans who weren't able to watch their side live. Those fans took up other sports and look at Super Rugby now. You may dismiss it, but for the good of the game and to help the game grow properly then the games need to be accessible to kids of every age, this isnt possible when
1. They schedule every game on a school night/work night
2. They schedule every game as late as 7:45pm
3. They schedule every game on a Friday night
This makes public transport an issue for most families too, generally people don't like using our public transport system at night due to the constant violence constantly being reported by our media. And with the late kick off times organising transport either side of the train or bus is very problematic.
This hasn't been well thought out at all, then we have all the away fixtures at perfect family friendly times for all foreign teams to encourage families to engage in the sport but unfortunately all the little kids that have aspirations to play for the Force one day will have to miss out this year and stay home with their Mum whilst Daddy goes and gets shitfaced with his larikan mates.
It's not a good look and the first major fail for GRR. When you fail to look after your future generation, then like SuperRugby the product has already failed. I'm still totally surprised they put so much talk into family friendly times and bringing families back to the game when they have scheduled in the total opposite.