Quote: Cronus "That's actually a fair point.
In the Premier, West Bank have withdrawn allowing Riversiders a route to the semi. With Salford Central folding, why shouldn't the next best placed finisher in the Merit also be moved up and given a shot?
Must be worth running past the league?'"
The Riversiders are actually no better off. We'd have had an away semi anyway in 4th. It has simply given Accrington a walkover to the final. I'll be extremely glad to see the back of the summer conference league to be honest, the apathy from some teams about completing fixtures and the ease with which new, unsustainable teams get lumped in at the top of the structure has just lead to year after year of it being a shambles. In my opinion the most impressive league this year has been the Merit League with a huge increase in fixtures played and a relatively low ratio of games conceded. The RFL should shout it from the rooftops really, yet there's not so much as a website or a paragraph in the trade press to check tables and results.
