It's certainly becoming difficult but, how on earth do you justify Leeds taking part ??
Might as well stick Bradford in there, just for old times sake.

The sport has to be good enough and clever enough to see the season out in some kind of reasonable order.

Next season could certainly start with just as many, if not more, difficulties.
Our clown government went from having some control over the virus, to losing it and we look way more likely to have another full lockdown that we ever do to having spectators back through the turnstiles, without which, every sport, apart from Premier League Football, is in serious jeopardy.

It was probably more about deliberately leaving Warrington out.

I don't see the RFL compliance unit has particularly strong grounds to punish Salford, the constraints they are operating under are self-evident facts, and could not reasonably have been foreseen when the season was originally being planned. The rescheduling of the CC was done by the RFL, and that has ultimately led to difficulties in fulfilling SL fixtures. It's not feasible to pull in random players from the lower leagues who haven't played for months, not on salary cap grounds and not on Covid security grounds. The RFL has a duty to consider player welfare as well as the clubs. As for some clubs being in a stronger position to fall back on academies and reserves; that's a long-term issue that the RFL is already aware of.

Interestingly, if Catalan win their next few games and can get past the 15 matches needed to qualify, they could go into the play offs relatively fresh, perhaps having played 5 or 6 games less than the other sides in the semi finals.
Apart from still having to travel, this would be a huge advantage for them.

Then, one decent performance and they're in the GF

Although the last 3 SL winners were Leeds, Wigan and St Helens.

For perspective..... here's a post taken from the Salford fans site....

[i"Looking at our fixtures for October and scheduled for November is an absolute joke

October 3rd, 8th, 13th, 17th, 23rd, 26th, 30th (7 games in 27 days)
November 2nd, 6th, 8th, 12th (4 games in 10 days)

Total 11 games in 40 days with one of the smallest squads in Super League.

It's amazing we've managed to fulfil our fixtures so far. Super League and the RFL have a duty of care to the players and any punishment would show then up for what they are."[/i

I'd argue not one SL club could cope with that fixture list, let alone one with the smallest squad. Still, at least the mighty Wire have managed to avoid a 6th consecutive beating at the hands of little old Salford.

At least Salford haven’t done what Toronto did and threw in the towel.

Think Oliver Roberts played with broken ribs against Saints as well before he went off. While I've got some sympathy with the powers that be I'm not sure they've always covered themselves in glory.

ATEOTD player welfare must be #1 priority. I'm proud of our lads for their commitment to the cause during these crazy times and you won't hear 1 Salford fan criticising the club for putting the players wellbeing first. As for the numpty who posted about getting players in on loan from the Championship....

To be fair I don't think that Warrington have asked for a rest, or the points, it's our opponents that have recently called games and a 16 day break isn't always a blessing.

I'm not sure why Salford's fixture list is so congested over and above the 'burden' of a Challenge Cup Final, which in any event generally interrupts the regular season and the agreed rescheduling to try to ensure that fans might spectate

I'm having more of a go with the RFL rather than Wire, just using the comparative. Some clubs appear to be cannon fodder at the moment with no consideration for player welfare, it's a shambles.

I think Rico's feeling a bit tetchy based on what I've just read on the Wire forum.

Poor guy should enjoy the moment.... it's been a while since they've taken points off little old Salford.

Who on the Wakefield forum ha suggested it’s everyone but Salford’s fault. Just some of us have sympathy for them.

Apologies for the unintended 'misdirection', the other "forum" is Salford's alternative independent fans forum, not the Wakefield board on here