Salford been deducted six points and fined five thousand pound.Marwan considering an appeal.That puts them next to bottom in Super League.

Look forward to meeting you again so we can dump you out of it lol.

How is this fair on the championship sides competing in the middle 8's?

I've said before as you get 2/3 of your points from the league an 1/3 from the Super 8s that's how any points deduction should be divided. With 6 points now Salford are likely to end up in the Qualifiers, have their points reset and face no consequences for breaking the rules. If they'd have had 4 points now they'd still stand a chance of making the top 8, another 2 once the Super 8s started, penalises them if their points are re-set, makes no difference if they're not.

Uncle Dez must be spinning.

It is fair because we play the bottom four in Super League irrespective of the method they end up there.

Nothing fair at all in these play off You win the league you should be promoted

Cheats.

It isn't fair at all.

It shows exactly how much they value the middle 8 concept.

We will do Salford in the eights at home

And the winner of most pompous post of the year goes to...

It isn't fair on the current Salford players or coaching staff and it isn't fair on the top 4 clubs from the Championship. It is fair however on the Salford club as a whole to face a penalty, I am just not sure a points deduction is the right way. Perhaps given we're two years down the line, a reasonable fine would have been a better punishment.

As if it wasn't hard enough before for Championship clubs, it's just become even harder.

If we finish top and Salford either finish 10th or bottom,that fixture will happen.

Agree 100%.

Perhaps another punishment might be to deduct the overpayment from future salary cap allowances for say 1 or 2 years? Hard to do with exisiing contracts but not impossible.

We still have to play the bottom four, it is going to be difficult against any four teams from the Super League. Does it matter who they are?

Yes, if one of them is in bottom four for any reason other than being one of the four worst teams in the league over 23 rounds.

With all your 'star players' I wouldn't of thought you would be bothered. You have a SL standard pack better than some of the bottom teams in SL.

Correct EmptyMelonHead.

Normally reffy you make a fair amount of sense but this beggars belief.

So, let's say Wakefield or Hull KR finish the regular season 4 points behind Salford but Salford drop into the Middle 8's, sparing one of the 4 worst teams in SL from the 8's.
Both WTW & KR are beatable SL sides, Salford probably not. Salford could theoretically end up in the MPG *unlikely* which Championship Team would beat them ?

It is feasible that given the right circumstances & form that both Leigh & Bradford 'could' take the scalps of WTW & KR, maybe 1 victory from each Championship Club or 2 victories from 1 Championship Club.

Then there is the MPG itself.
Oldham have already done a job on KR !!! & they will be nowhere near the 8's, proving that in a one off game 'anything can happen'.
Now if one of those poor SL sides is replaced with a decent Salford, what are the chances ? More or less reffy ?

Exactly Leythlg.

The RFL have yet again proven their utter ineptitude at managing the organisation they are charged to run.
This group of overpaid invertebrate tea drinkers are too busy with their self congratulatory tub thumping in their crazed expansionist empire to smell the coffee.

What will it take for these morons to wake up, grow some hairs on them & make a proper & forceful decision for once ?

I for one would like to see 'All' of the chairmen & BOD's take a stand with a [iVote of NO confidence[/i against the RFL, but it won't happen, there are too many SL Clubs that the RFL 'protects' over others & so it wouldn't be in their best interests to get involved.

[iP&R[/i What a joke.

Do you know which are going to be the four poorest sides at the end of the regular season, would it include Leeds or Salford (without penalty)? Would it include HKR, Wakefield , Huddersfield or even Widnes. Will Leigh improve to stand a chance with any of them, whichever teams occupy the bottom four?

Of course I [idon't know[/i which 4 SL teams will be in the middle 8's but not many would call Salford as being one of them [i*without the 6pt deduction*[/i.

As for Leigh improving enough to take a SL scalp, I don't think they would have to improve that much to be honest, even under strength Leigh are a far better team than Oldham & look what they did to KR !
A full strength Leigh who are 'on it' could well take 1 or even 2 SL teams by surprise, as could Bradford in similar circumstances.

Sadly we are still waiting for them to be 'on it' for more than 20 minutes a game

Let's just hope we peak at the end of the season when it matters.