Exactly, the hosting clubs make no money out of this. That's the entire point. To penalise them as suggested by making all the games they play at their grounds home games means they will have fewer games in front of crowds when the time comes. It's nonsensical and none of the clubs with suitable stadia would offer theirs for use under those conditions.

Will we still be playing Leeds at Belle Vue later in the season? Is the first round loop fixtures?

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That would make some sense.

Looking forward to this match and weekend, some good matches.

Up the Trin

I'm surprised our 1st game isn't against Leigh

While I am surprised that we aren't playing Leeds first game, however you try and wrap this up Leeds will be the only club playing at home in this round and yet they are being classed as the away side ??
Remembering that fixtures have only just been released, why the hell aren't they classed as the home side for this fixture - it makes no sense.
As for the other 5 games, so what ? Leeds still get to play at home for their away fixture

I think you may be missing the point, whilst some of those teams will be classed as the home team, they are both playing a neutral venue, Leeds are playing at home with home advantage yet they are deemed to be the away side.

Spot on !

Think the reality is we dont have the facilities to support 5 games in one day, but am sure leeds will be making money from this or they wouldn't be doing it, so once again bigger clubs probably are doing better -

Its 6 games over 3 days! Its only 2 games a day, i suppose it's down to changing facilities.

It is a loop fixture, which means that we still have a home game at BV, hopefully with a big crowd later in the year.

Same for Leigh V Wigan.

The fly-in-the-ointment is Leeds playing an away fixture at home, but without using 2 grounds (and doubling the TV costs), it's a hard square to circle.

The issue it raises is fairness, should we be having relegation (which I believe we are).

It makes Carter's suggestion of an 11 team league with no relegation and a team coming up next year, all the more insightful (though I think he acknowledged that it was someone else's idea).

No I am not missing the point at all I understand what is being stated fully.

So the week after say the games are played at Saints And the fixture is Wigan v Saints bearing in mind saints are at 'home' v Salford at Headingley what's the solution. The game needs to get going some will work on our favour some won't just get on with it.

The longer it goes without games in clubs own grounds the messier it gets trying to work home and away fixtures

That's easy to answer - at the end of the season someone is going to be relegated. That will most likely to be a team that has played more away games than anyone else.

Secondly, in this example, Wakey have lost a money-spinning home game, as have Leigh against Wigan - I completely understand that, with lockdown, this is a strange point. It's all "If's, but's & maybe's".

Ultimately, what we have is the best the RFL can come up with - and I'm content with it - but to suggest it doesn't affect the honesty of the league is head-in-the-sand talk.