In effect the draw was the winner of game"x" will play the winner of game "y" etc

No it wasn't. If the draw had taken place before the fourth round games had taken place then you could say we would have played a certain team but it wasn't.

Not that it really matters, of course.

Thursday
1. Hull v SALFORD
Friday
2. CATALAN v London
3. Dewsbury v WIGAN
Saturday
4. SHEFFIELD v London Skolars
Sunday
5. Batley 10 - 48 Castleford Tigers Full time Scorers
6. Bradford Bulls 60 - 6 Oldham Full time Scorers
7. Doncaster 68 - 18 Hemel Stags Full time Scorers
8. Featherstone 66 - 0 North Wales Crusaders Full time Scorers
9. Halifax 10 - 34 Widnes Vikings Full time Scorers
10. Huddersfield Giants 16 - 17 St Helens Full time Scorers
11. Hull KR 24 - 28 Warrington Wolves Full time Scorers
12. Hunslet 27 - 10 Workington Full time Scorers
13. Keighley 54 - 28 Barrow Full time Scorers
14. Rochdale 22 - 28 Leigh Full time Scorers
15. Swinton 31 - 28 York Full time Scorers
16. Wakefield Wildcats 6 - 60 Leeds Rhinos Full time Scorers

So the ball numbers were decided before the 4th round took place I assume

must have been, don't know how to upload images but on twitter there is a picture from the draw with the list on the right hand side that correspond to what I listed

is a link allowed? rlhttps://twitter.com/HFC_NEWS/status/452829356780687360/photo/1rl

No problem mate just proved my point that whoever Salford drew we would have played if we'd won

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But the draw was done after the fouth round matches. It was "Salford" in the hat not "Hull or Salford".

It's like saying if Catalans had beaten us in the QF last year they would've played Warrington in the Semi.

And Salford had ball number 1 which would have been our designated ball if we'd won.Cats/Bradford was ball 2.Dewsbury/Wigan ball 3 .....etc

Salford should be playing Bradford as it was a 6 and not a 9 ball .

Yes but we wouldn't necessarily have drawn the same team Salford did!

But whoever Salford got drawn against would have been exactly the same team we would have played .Thats my point

Not necessarily. If we had got through number 1 could have been drawn against any other in the bag!

For the sake of other posters I think we should leave this here, we need to agree to disagree.

Quote: B0NES "Salford should be playing Bradford as it was a 6 and not a 9 ball .'" Not according to this www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/26916758

Quote: B0NES "Salford should be playing Bradford as it was a 6 and not a 9 ball .'" Not according to this www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/26916758

Oh well, if the RFL say its correct, it must be true then!