Season start date.

[Pitfitter1105]

Not expecting the fixture list but do we have an idea when the season might commence? Got a late holiday to sort, someone’s special birthday.

[Impega]

As I understand it the start of the URC season will coincide with the latter stages of the World Cup, so roughly mid-October.

There was a comment on Twitter by the other day from the URC's head of comms, who told someone they might be 'pleasantly surprised' at how soon the fixtures are released, so it might actually be fairly soon!

[andthefoxsays]

Looks like it'll be the weekend of 20th October (WC Semis weekend).

There's some info in this article about how the fixtures might look - https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rug ... 52735.html

[Pitfitter1105]

Cheers guys much as I thought.

[dolf_lundgren]

Im maybe a bit soft, but looking at the social media photos of the squad startng pre season, it looks the usual brutal stuff.

Given the league doesnt start for another 4 months though, would it not have been better to give them a bit of a break and let them recharge, both mentally and physically?

I get they need to maintain condition but I would have thought there could have been more imaginative ways of doing that than bronco tests.

[The Feral Goat]

Given our season ended with a whimper in April they have had best part of 2months off already!

Maybe they start with the Bronco etc to get a baseline and then maybe do it again nearer season start and it is not 4 months of beastings...although suspect Diamond may be all for 4 months of beastings...assume pre-season and conditioning is dictated more by the sports scientists and S&C team than lead consultant.