And then they took it all back again, which helped precipitate Bradford going into Admin.

For clarity, I want the RFL to do as much to help Salford as they did Bradford. Just not necessarily exactly the same things as the two situations are somewhat different.

problem is, most if not all clubs will have their pre season programme in place by now

Sorry Tigerade, your suggestion is far too sensible for this forum, I suggest that you find somewhere more appropriate to peddle your common sense suggestions

Back on topic, it seems crazy not to get the friendly game on between Salford and Leigh, surely the income would be helpful, even if they had to field an academy laden squad ??

I can see super league having a bye round if the crisis continues which begs the question what to do about magic weekend? As it stands Widnes are without opponents. A championship elect side? Would at least get the championship fans involved in it.

No, no, no, no, NO,how would that work? , are you suggesting a SL club plays a Championship select/club for SL points? , how much more ridiculous do we want our sport to become?

No I'm not suggesting that. That's both a ridiculous idea and a ridiculous assumption to make based on my post.

Point out where I am suggesting that or apologise, bugman, for knee jerking so badly.

So what are you suggesting? , would whoever didnt play SL opposition be playing for points?

If not then how could it work?

So instead of jumping to conclusions now you dare to ask questions before you jump to stupid conclusions! Thankyou sir, for your patience in this matter.

Heaven forbid anyone inquire the time in your presence. You would surely reply "So you plan on setting off a bomb and you dare ask me for the time!?" Wait until you have even the smallest fragment of truth before you take it to the absurd.

I'm suggesting that like it or not we may be forced to be short of a Super League club in 2012 and therefore when the magic weekend comes around, we would in that case be short of a club to even things up. These are facts. It might not happen but Salford are not fulfilling fixtures as it stands so it very well could.

This means one club, namely, my own, will find themselves out of an opponent for one of the biggest days of the year. This, again, is a distinct possibility at this stage. Therefore, I came up with the idea that they play a friendly representative game rather than be put in the distinct disadvantage of not having a game at all.

A friendly. I am not sure you have heard of them but they work without points.

It's not an ideal situation to find ourselves in but that's the point isn't it?

So no, there will be no points up for grabs. Where you got that idea from is beyond me as I never implied it. And you've repeated it twice now even though I clarified in my last post that this would not be the case.

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So you are suggesting that a SL club would play a season with 2 less points available to it than the rest of the clubs? "

So you are suggesting that a SL club would play a season with 2 less points available to it than the rest of the clubs?

No. Like I said in the earlier post of mine, there would obviously be a bye round.

Do the maths, it doesnt work

It doesnt work for each team to have a round where instead of playing salford they play nobody?

Seems to work elsewhere!

Not in this context it doesn't.

No it doesnt, odd number of teams and odd number of games doesnt work, do the maths

10 minutes Chris, have you sussed the flaw in your cunning plan yet?