Well said.

I'm confident we will see a much better performance next saturday at Wakey with a good 8 day turnaround.

Think it likely. I also suspect McDermott's aversion to resting players could be pig-headedness over the ridiculous fixture list.

It is difficult to imagine a worse performance than last night tbh

Wakey' a real 4 pointer. McDermott pig headedness arrogance and damn right stubenness as cost us too many regular round games and is regular round record is not good, really think regardless of what happens this year we need a fresh approach and fresh ideas next year.

Had this been something factored in years and years ago we could have perhaps found a much better solution. For example. there is already a weekend in the season where all but 2 sides arent playing. The Challenge cup final weekend, Which is a bank holiday. Do a 2nd Magic Weekend 'The London Festival of RL'. 1 game on the Friday night, Challenge Cup final on the Saturday, 4 games at Wembley on the Sunday or some variation thereof.

We could have also simply played on different days, There is no reason we can only play Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holiday mondays or that clubs have to play on the same day. Sky have had very little content recently, especially during the week. We could have fit that round in by going Wednesday to Wednesday to Sunday playing 1 game a day and selling those entire rounds to Sky so having 12 consecutive SL games live of TV. That would have meant a minimum of 4 days between games, largely 5 if not 6 which is pretty much standard, and it would have finished this sunday putting us back to a standard week.

The problem once again is a lack of planning, a lack of forethought and a lack of joined up thinking from the RFL.

I would still like to see changes made but it wont be happening for next season imo. Looks highly likely we will get a top 4 place at this stage and we have every chance in CC still so no way GH will pull the trigger when he let things roll through 18 months of poop. Unless he sorted something out when he issued the final warning after the Cas game, but i doubt it.

Some of the stuff we have served up since 2015 i'm certain you could

Im sure those people politely and patiently explained to you why these fixtures had nothing to with fact we played mid-season international fixtures.

It was poor last night but not the worst. 8-0 vs Salford last year and losing to Bradford the week before the 2014 CC Final spring to mind as poorer games.

They do though, they have a knock on effect that the club game can't cope with.

3rd game in 8 days is always going to be low quality rugby league. I don't know why the RFL persist with these double rounds, and that includes over Easter.

If we can pick up the win over Wakey it would really put us in a strong position for a finishing top 4 spot. Think most of us expected Wigan to eventually come good and get in the 4 but they just haven't got the bodies back and I don't think they're going to make it now and that changes the playoff complexion massively if so.