that would be the perfect solution

East Midlands is an hour, someone else flies ahead with luggage etc. Players arrive 30 minutes before flight, flight is 11:15am, arrive CCN at 14:15 (local time), at somewhere to train on the Monday evening by 7pm, train Tuesday, game Wednesday night, Thursday am flight back, next game Sunday.



losing 2 days is just not going to happen,1 day max (half day for each flight)

Only an hour to EMA??? Thats some going even by motorbike. Even on a good day in my car it takes on average about 1.40hrs so around 2hours on coach. I do a run 2 to 3 times a week which passes EMA and I have a heavy right foot & I'd struggle to do it in an hour with clear roads.



The point I'm getting at is that it really breaks up the week and all the planned training structures they will now doubt be working to under Gentle. In reality no matter how you do it, it will not be far off losing the equivalent of 2 full days training.



I dont know what the perfect solution is as quite honestly there isn't one.



Why is the KC an issue if the Exiles game is to be held there? As I thought the whole point was for Hull FC to play Catalans the same weekend, which would be played in France??? The only issue is that no Hull or Catalans Players can be picked for England, Exiles, Knights or France.



That is for me the better and fairest solution.

It was. I can just about remember drinking sangria scooped from the bottom of an ice cream freezer at about 1am before trying to remember where we were staying in French for the taxi.

beziers was a terrible choice for the majority of away fans, we couldn't even get close to the town, even with catalan sports tours! therefore we went straight to the stadium and had nearly a 3 hour wait for kick off, luckily we found a camponile restaurant close by for a meal

were you the one in a drunken stupour with the sombrero and false moustache dancing on the table ?

same problem for the 'home' fans travelling from the Perpignan area - they simply picked the wrong weekend for Beziers - anywhere else would have been fine

have u rung hull and told them this ??????

Why the hell people think Catalan should/will forfeit home advantage is crazy talk.

I dont think anyone genuinely does, just talking about alternatives.

Any game to be played anywhere except in Perpignan isn't an alternative surely.

I don't think so personally, nor do I think the Exiles weekend is a good idea, personally I'd leave it and see what the CC brings, if by some stretch one side gets to the final then it's midweek at the business end of the season, don't do anything early in the season.