Peter Hood has written to the RFL asking if their postponed game at Harelquins can take precedence over Manly's warm up game against Quinns that weekend.

Is this an appalling effort by Hood to undermien the event or does he have a point that a SL fixture should take precedence over a warm up game?

On this occassion he has a point.

Yes he has a point.

they should make the bulls go to quins on the wednesday before good friday

To be honest, I did wonder how well moving a SL fixture to accomodate a friendly would go down. I would therefore wonder whether this might be testing the RFL's patience a little further. I suppose a lot will depend on how much the RFL were involved in brokering the Manly game, and what agreements were put in place with Manly.

In short, if it was a Leeds gae being shifted so another club could play a friendly, I'd be a bit miffed.

Bulls want Manly to have no match practice before WCC, fine by me

They should just schedule it for Challenge Cup semi-final weekend - neither of them will have anything else to do...

If Leeds were to win, would this undermine our victory or would people not be bothered as long as we pick up the trophy?

We could blame Bulls

He does right.

Since when has a friendly been more important then two league points.

I'd personally rather win knowing the opposition have no excuses.

You know the Aus pres will make a meal of it if we win and Manly' warm up game was cancelled etc. They'd call it a fix.

Some people may not be bothered though so....

Cant see it happening (although his point is valid) as Quins will object. I think they will get a good crowd by attracting the Aussies down in London to the Manly game. It will also bring out a lot of neutral RU supporters why might fancy seeing the best attacking team in the world play.

Who wants to go watch a poor Bradford team