Will a reserve or other game count as the one match ban served for those Wigan players, or will they miss a playoff?

Wigan have a reserves fixture...

Afraid so.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... n-27784969

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... n-27784969

Same ‘feature’ meant that Bateman could play for England in the world cup last year - It’s a total farce, but ‘them’s the rules’…

I'm not surprised.

Can't we just arrange 3 reserve games this week so Vaughan can play against saints? What's good for one and all that.

It looks well what with them saying no mitigation or special circumstances for Vaughan but they let Burgess become coach even though he doesn’t have the level 3 qualification and they cite mitigation and special circumstances.
You couldn’t make it up

I've thought more on this, widnes aren't doing anything , let's tell them they can have gil Dudson for free if they play us in 3 reserve matches this week.

It just shows the joke that RL has become when we have a 76 page thread on the baffling & comedic findings of the MRP

Unfortunately the reserve games only count if there is no first team game that week.

Nice benefit of finishing top 2, we should make sure we always have a reserve game pencilled in for the first week of the playoffs just in case. Could also reduce any bans which would spill over to next season by a game as well. Not saying Wigan have already thought about this scenario panning out but it's great timing with the bans they picked up this week.

Can you imagine the length of ban that Nat Wood would get from the MRP, for running in the corridors of the Halliwell Jones.

I reckon arrest, a public flogging and at least 10 years at his majesty's pleasure should put a stop to that nonsense!

And as for Briers sitting in the stand after scoring a try.....they'd deport him to the colonies!

Or that RL fans like nothing more than a good whinge?

We could sweeten the deal for Widnes by [unot[/u letting them have Dudson.

Whilst I agree about the propensity to whinge to be fair the thread is of the updated weekly variety rather than about one moment in time (I had a Whitney Houston thought there for a minute)

You would have to get to the final though, AND finish in the top two in Superleague. The reserve season ended a couple of weeks ago.
Many, many years ago it was allowed to rearrange an A team game to "help" with this sort of situation.

Does this Amone chap have his own seat at the disciplinary panel ?

So shock Saints not appealing Delaney but Leigh appealing Amone. Feel like they have appealed every ban they have had.

Not worth wasting 1 of their “get out of jail free”” cards on.

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... -tom-amone

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... -tom-amone

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... view-panel

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/62 ... view-panel

Absolutely laughable

So, the Williams nothing shoulder charge is deemed worse than Walmsley's that led to an HIA and Bullock's that did end up with head contact? Laughable indeed.

And Drinkwater didn't put their player in a dangerous position so that shouldn't have been a penalty. Thanks for nothing.