The issue is whether the RFL have already got rules in place which allow Sheffield to elect to swerve the fixture, which is what people are saying. That means Sheffield are morally dubious doing so but are within the rules. That being the case, the feeble RFL could only ask not tell them to play us.

It will be quite annoying if not been able to play the sheffield game (and hopefully winning it) is difference between us coming 3rd and 4th, which given fax's loss yesterday is quite likely. Think next years central distributions are decided on this years league position so club has double whammy financially of missing match day revenue plus reduced central funding.

This years table is decided on points per game so playing the game is technically pointless in this situation.

I don't think it's pointless, as it's technically better to play and win that to not play at all. We are 11 wins from 16 games (68.75%). Were we to play Sheffield and win we'd be 12 wins from 17 (70.59%), the same as Fax.

Exactly. Doesn't make a massive difference to the percentage but it does affect it nevertheless. Guessing if percentages are identical then it would be decided on points difference which I'd expect Fax to have a higher figure than us without checking tables. But it would also give us a bigger cushion over Batley who are breathing down our necks, so percentage difference could decide who gets home advantage in playoff game.

Doesn't look like Aston is THAT concerned about player welfare as they're going to play thier game against York. Absolute farce clubs can decide who they're playing. Imagine if us and York were fighting it out for that last play-off spot!

In fairness to Sheffield, the operational rules state that games must be rearranged in the order they were postponed ie Sheffield’s game with York was called off before ours so they have to rearrange and play York before they can look at playing us.