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Where will do we play the playoff final? Twickers?

You've done a better job of fixtures on here than has been done on the Official Site.

Also it still says Championship.

The offical website is another area we need to become more professional as a club.

What can you say other than AWESOME. BRILLIANT. CRACKING. DELIGHTFUL. EXCITING. FANTASTIC. GREAT. HERCULEAN. INCREADIBLE. JUICY. KOOL. LOVELY. MARVELLOUS. NUMBING. OUTSTANDING. PERFECT. QUALITY. RARE. SUMPTUOUS. TERRIFIC. UNIQUE. VALUE. WONDERFUL. XMAS.(every game) YAHOO. ZEST. Or in a word or 26 FABULOUS. PADDYTAF.



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Looking forward to seeing you on the first weekend of the season!

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Where will do we play the playoff final? Twickers?

First version of fixture list published at PremiershipRugby.com showed both semi-finals being played in Cape Town!

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You've done a better job of fixtures on here than has been done on the Official Site.
Also it still says Championship.

The offical website is another area we need to become more professional as a club.

Cheers Steve!

LW Amateurs' fixtures also added to side menu and will add any other CASC team fixtures as and when they appear.

As we will be at the KASSAM STADIUM surely the Amateurs and others will play on the hallowed turf on the main pitch. Yes? PADDYTAF.

Great start for you... not on the sanw day as us either so might be some extra Exiles support in green.

Jon_r43. Hope some of you guys can come along. We can of course Paint your tops etc in a very nice bright RED if you like. See you at the Madjesky (Is that spelt correct?) Stadium. PADDYTAF.

BBc Website seems to have all the fixture dates set

Fixture dates will get set next week once TV decide who they want for the first block of fixtures.

I couldn't agree more Paddytaff !. Tigers and Harlequins in the first two weeks will be challenging but should guarantee a good crowd. Let's hope that Lyn is able to secure all the additional players he wants fairly quickly. Pity that Adam Jones has signed a new contract for the Ospreys ! I discovered over the weekend that all the player ins and outs are on London Welsh's Wikipedia page.
[en.wikipedia.org] I guess this is fairly up to date as any other club advising of a player movement will automatically update our page. Bring on the Tigers!

LW Women's RFC fixtures now added and can be found under 'Fixtures and Tables' on left hand side of page.

What are the kick off times likely to be for home fixtures.
The Celtic League are nearly always evening games, really iinconvenient for suporters travelling a distance.

Curious, the Telegraph had all the kickoffs on Saturdays at 3pm (rather than the weekend of 7/8/9 September etc) save for the Sunday opener against Tigers at 2pm. Presumably Sky then dictates when they want te kickoffs to enable them to screen non-stop sporting wallpaper, but it makes forward planning difficult if you cannot rely on the Telegraph sporting pages! There are no Premiership matches at Kassam between 29 September and 3 November which is a bit odd, and no Premiership matches scheduled for 13 and 20 October, 10 and 17 November and 8 and 15 December. Presumably some of these weekends will be used for various cup competitions, but if we have any spare dates because we are not in the Heineken, could we fix up friendliest with Welsh sides and either play them at Kassam or (shock horror) at Old Deer Park? I might have hoped that 22 and 29 December might be for local Derby or two but away at Worcester and home to Wasps is the RFU idea of a local derby.

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I might have hoped that 22 and 29 December might be for local Derby or two but away at Worcester and home to Wasps is the RFU idea of a local derby.

Worcester might not sound like much of a derby but when you consider its only about 5 miles further from Oxford than Richmond is...

Also does anyone know when the Amlin fixtures come out? I want to know when to book my trip to Florence for!

Just about as tough a start for you in the first 2 games as it is possible to get, but at least you will get to know what the Premiership is all about very quickly!

Best of luck, and win the first 2 games, and who knows what might happen from there.

Looking forward to our two games with you.

Deja vu? I've seen it all before

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Curious, the Telegraph had all the kickoffs on Saturdays at 3pm (rather than the weekend of 7/8/9 September etc) save for the Sunday opener against Tigers at 2pm. Presumably Sky then dictates when they want te kickoffs to enable them to screen non-stop sporting wallpaper, but it makes forward planning difficult if you cannot rely on the Telegraph sporting pages! There are no Premiership matches at Kassam between 29 September and 3 November which is a bit odd, and no Premiership matches scheduled for 13 and 20 October, 10 and 17 November and 8 and 15 December. Presumably some of these weekends will be used for various cup competitions, but if we have any spare dates because we are not in the Heineken, could we fix up friendliest with Welsh sides and either play them at Kassam or (shock horror) at Old Deer Park? I might have hoped that 22 and 29 December might be for local Derby or two but away at Worcester and home to Wasps is the RFU idea of a local derby.

Remember we have the Amlin and the LV dates to come!

The spare weekends in the Autumn Internationals period will be set aside for the LV Cup, as will spare weekends during the Six Nations.

The remaining spare weekends will be for your Amlin fixtures.

HEC fixtures are
12/13/14 Oct
19/20/21 Oct
7/8/9 Dec
14/15/16 Dec
11/12/13 Jan
18/19/20 Jan

6/7 Apr QF
27/28 Apr SF
18/19 May Final

Anglo-Welsh LV= Cup
9/10/11 Nov
16/17/18 Nov
25/26/27 Jan
1/2/3 Feb
9/10 Mar SF
16/17 Mar Final

That should fill up every weekend from the start of September to the end of May!

Cup dates now added to list at top of this page.

Quins have provisionally set the fixture at the Stoop for Fri 7th Sept, 7.45pm.

Other sports are able to provide fixture lists with EXACT dates and EXACT times, not just these are the weekends where Sky may pick the timeslot for their particular needs. What a joke! The RFU under Bill Beaumont should seize back control over fixture dates and times from Sky, and tell them to be happy with the fixtures they are offered to televise. How can I possibly plan my busy social whirl (as a pensioner) with such uncertainty? For one thing advance rail tickets need booking well ahead.

I'm certainly not defending PRL, the RFU or the broadcasters but I don't think that Premiership rugby is alone with this problem. Broadcasting rights are split between Sky and ESPN which must only complicate things.

Anyway, I'm sure I read somewhere that the first batch of TV broadcasts will be finalised by the end of this week and then clubs can finalise the times and and dates of early-season fixtures.

One area where we are lucky is that anyone can publish the full fixture list for the season. In football the fixtures are subject to copyright and only those that pay for a licence can publish the fixture list for more than the following few weeks so it's even more difficult to use supporter websites to keep track of changes.

True, but when was there last legal action for a local infringement of FA copyright of their fixture list? They might conceivably sue a national paper but hardly a local club. Early season fixtures is not really the point. There are weekends later, before Chrstmas, where it is silly to have to hold the entire weekend for a fixture tat ay be over by Friday night. The fact is the Tv rights are wagging the dog.

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True, but when was there last legal action for a local infringement of FA copyright of their fixture list? They might conceivably sue a national paper but hardly a local club. Early season fixtures is not really the point. There are weekends later, before Chrstmas, where it is silly to have to hold the entire weekend for a fixture tat ay be over by Friday night. The fact is the Tv rights are wagging the dog.

They do pursue anyone that uses the fixture list without a licence. It probably wouldn't end up in court because their lawyers would make sure that the warning letters were frightening enough! None of the football sites on SportNetwork have full fixtures lists up.

There was an ECJ ruling as recently as March saying that the copyright isn't legal but it is still being fought through the UK courts. Anyway, all that is completely irrelevant.


When the broadcasters are putting in £54m over three years (average £1.5m per club per season?) they may feel that they have the right to demand whatever they want.... Championship clubs got around £30k each from Sky and still had to bow to their demands. The clubs and the RFU are so dependent on TV income that they can't afford to stand up to the broadcasters.

Of course that £18m pa isn't distributed equally as it depends on number of years in the Premiership, category of Premiership shares held etc. etc.

The Sale Sharks (away) fixture is Fri 21st Sept, 8pm [www.salesharks.com]

Good. I'm hoping to meet up with Leighton Hughes. Member of Sedgeley Park. On the 22nd September they play Richmond at home. PADDYTAF.

"Give them no ball or bad ball WELSH"

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Good. I'm hoping to meet up with Leighton Hughes. Member of Sedgeley Park. On the 22nd September they play Richmond at home. PADDYTAF.
"Give them no ball or bad ball WELSH"

That's not a bad idea. I wonder how many more double weekends we can manage, where we watch an old Championship rival as well as our new opponents. I'd hope to see a few Ldn Scottish and Esher matches next season,as well.

There's rugby to watch at ODP most weekends.

Thanks to 'Steve D' for the list of matches being played at ODP in 2012/13.

[www.rugbynetwork.net]

This list can also be accessed from the 'Fixtures' menu.

Welcome to the reality of the Premiership. Your cub will earn funds from the TV coverage so why not just grin and bear it? The rest of us do.

Monday 10th Sept.

A League - LW v Quins at ODP

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Monday 10th Sept.
A League - LW v Quins at ODP

Wonder where the A league matches are going to be played in the winter?

wonder where the players for the A team will come from?

When we play Quins we will DR from them and when we play Bath we will DR from them & so on & so on &............. PADDYTAF.


"Give them no ball or bad ball WELSH"

bit pointless then...

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bit pointless then...

Not if you kick a penalty, drop a goal, score a try & convert it. PADDYTAF.


"GIVE THEM NO BALL OR BAD BALL WELSH"

Just read this elsewhere:

'Stade F will play Toulon in the 50k footy stadium @ Lille, Grenoble @ Valenciennes and are currently planning to entertain London Welsh @ Le Havre ... all northern and footy enclaves.'

So don't be buying those tickets to Paris just yet...

Dates and times seem to have been confirmed on the Premiership rugby site, with television details for weeks 1-8. It appears that we're going to be playing our home matches on Sundays at 3pm.

[www.premiershiprugby.com]

Edit: And 'A' league fixtures here: [www.premiershiprugby.com]



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Here's the Le Harve stadium

[stadiumdb.com]

Not too shabby.



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I just found this great page on directions etc to all the Aviva grounds on the Wasps website. Only flaw is they have Leeds, instead of Worcester, listed (oh, and they haven't got any details for us!):

Aviva Grounds

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Dates and times seem to have been confirmed on the Premiership rugby site, with television details for weeks 1-8. It appears that we're going to be playing our home matches on Sundays at 3pm.
[www.premiershiprugby.com]

Edit: And 'A' league fixtures here: [www.premiershiprugby.com]

If I've read those A fixtures right, we seem to be sharing ours with Newcastle Falcons!

Will be interesting to see who plays if we reach the QF.

It's not unusual for the relegated club to compete in the 'A' league, with six clubs in one conference and seven in the other. Leeds were in it last season, and it looks like Gloucester have been bumped into the Northern Conference to make way for us to join the Southern Conference.

We definitely have an 'A team'? Cool.

Match v Sarries on 7 Oct is now a home match - switched with the game on 3rd March.

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The RFU under Bill Beaumont should seize back control over fixture dates and times from Sky, and tell them to be happy with the fixtures they are offered to televise.

I assume this was meant as a joke.

BB

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Mark W-J
Dates and times seem to have been confirmed on the Premiership rugby site, with television details for weeks 1-8. It appears that we're going to be playing our home matches on Sundays at 3pm.
[www.premiershiprugby.com]

Edit: And 'A' league fixtures here: [www.premiershiprugby.com]

Fixture list at top of this thread and on 1st XV Fixtures page updated with confirmed AP and 'A' League games.

Brown Bottle, not a joke but an optimistic expression of unrealisable ambition that the RFU would not simply roll over at the sign of a Murdoch cheque.

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You've done a better job of fixtures on here than has been done on the Official Site.
Also it still says Championship.

The offical website is another area we need to become more professional as a club.

Sorry if this has already been posted but I contacted he club (John Taylor) about this and received the following email from the Webmaster:


"I assume it's because you need to empty the cache on your computer. The cache is a space in your computer's hard drive and in RAM memory where your browser saves copies of previously visited Web pages. Your browser uses the cache like a short-term memory. Instead of downloading a fresh image from a recently viewed website, it will load the image from your cache folder, thereby making the browsing process a little quicker. Emptying the cache refreshes the site.

The website does say Aviva Premiership on the league table."

So I went away and looked again and emailed back:

"Hello Joe

I thought your explanation below sounded a little implausible so I went to the LW site and there it was - ‘Championship League table’ with all the Premiership clubs below. I then right-clicked and clicked ‘Reload’ from the pop-up menu (I use Google Chrome). @#$%&-me if it didn’t all go yellow and Aviva Premiership appeared! I owe you an apology and I will mention it on Dragon’s Den."

The moral of the story? Refresh your webpage.

Ron

PS the censored expletive above is very innocent - it starts with 'b' and rhymes with rugger. Does Mary Whitehouse run this site?