The fixture planners pencil in the usual two games in four days; the coaches complain about playing them.
It's a debate that's been raging for years, of course, but the discussions seem to become more and more polarised as the seasons tick by.
There are two sides to every argument, and both have merit.
The fixture planners, the TV companies and probably most club accountants as well, love their Bank Holiday double headers because they make money. And lots of it.
Would Good Friday be the same without Wigan v St Helens and Bradford against Leeds, games that regularly draw crowds of 20,000?
Probably not.
It's not the first game that's the problem though, it's the second.
Coaches tend to be like over protective parents, pampering their charges at every turn, and regard the physical demands of playing two matches so close together as being detrimental to them.
They talk about the risk of injury, the difficulties in coaxing two high-level performances over the course of a weekend and the fall in the quality of the second game as a result.
It's not what fans want to see, they say.
Personally, I have always regarded the Bank Holiday programme, whether it's in rugby league or football as a unique challenge.
True, it doesn't always lead to the kind of contests that coaches, who are rightly obsessed with the pursuit of the perfect game, want to see.
Players get tired, and tired players make mistakes, which must frustrate their mentors no end.
But it does provide a benchmark for endurance, a measurement of the depth of a team's squad and, yes, the coach's ability to juggle his selections to suit the situation.
And the attendances suggest that, despite what the men in tracksuits might tell us, the supporters like it too.
As long as it's the same for everyone, and it is, then I see little problem, even in the modern game.
The sport of rugby league has abandoned enough of its traditions over the last few years without jettisoning the ones that remain.
MInd you, once upon a time they probably said the same about playing on Christmas Day too.

THE name of Kyle Eastmond is not an unfamiliar one to seasoned rugby league watchers.
St Helens' teenager, incidentally a former protege of Halifax coach Matt Calland, has been tipped for the top for a long time.
And this is the season that potential is fast being realised on the Super League stage.
Eastmond, a half back turned utility player reminiscent of a young Jason Robinson not just in appearance but style too, has been in sensational form for the Knowsley Road outfit after forcing his way into the senior side.
Players like Eastmond, who delight the neutrals with their trickery, don't come along very often.
So if you get the chance to watch him, take it.