“BE sure your sins will find you out!”

So screamed the placard waved by an otherwise innocuous, grey-haired old man on the bridge at Dunriding Lane on Sunday matchdays in the 1970s and 80s.

I can recall as a kid, being denounced a sinner for trying to get my 10p out to buy a programme as you dropped down the brew. 

Sins? I was 11, give us a chance - I had not even started. Well, not unless they counted that Lievesely's meat pie I ate one Ash Wednesday in 1978.

Hell, fire and damnation may await, but it was all worth it all just to catch sight of Roy Mathias powering down the wing, see Eric Chisnall masterfully distribute the ball, watch George Nicholls put in some bone-crunchers and delight at Neil Holding chipping over the top and catching it.

Rugby league on the Sabbath was a salvation on a day that was otherwise dull as ditch-water.

Everything was shut on a Sunday - apart from the Mayfair at the top of Speakman Road. Sam Costa was on the radio when you got out of bed and Stars on Sunday was most viewed programme in the evening.

Before I discovered rugby league, Sundays in winter dragged all the way until the depressing theme tune from the Onedin Line came wailing out off the telly and it was time to get a bath ready for school the next day.

Sundays were rugby league's day for so long.

But, largely due to a television agenda, it seems Sundays are increasingly getting wiped off the rugby league agenda.

None of Saints’ Super 8s games are on a Sunday and Super League coaches are increasingly questioning the spread of fixtures from Thursday to Sunday.

Earlier in the year Widnes boss Denis Betts called for clubs to ditch Sunday rugby, given the impact it has on turnaround to a Thursday game.

It seems that Warrington boss Tony Smith may have similar thoughts.

Just because the paymasters at Sky are calling the tune on Thursdays, should not mean we ditch even more of our traditions.

But it is not a straightforward argument.

A lot of Saints fans now love the Friday night home game at Langtree Park, the post and pre-match, and the fact that it frees daylight hours to do things with the family on Sunday.

But away supporters – of which we all are 50 per cent of the time – hate the M62 on a Thursday or Friday night.

I think Thursdays are a monstrosity. It is midweek, not weekend, and has a school day after it.

Talk of bringing them forward to 7.30pm for me would simply make it even tougher for fans to get there on time.

It is quite nostalgic in a way.

Remember the call early in Super League that we did not want midweek games any more.

Well that is just what we have ended up with. If we go any earlier in the week, they will be bringing back the Floodlit Cup.

Now there's an idea.