Gone now I suspect.

What's the chances of Salford doing us a favour on Friday night?

Why do the games not kick off at the same time? Wakey win on Friday then the boys will know on Sat that it's all over.

It's going to be sickening if, after all this, and a bl00dy 6 point deduction, we miss out by a point.

Maybe OK will pay off some debt this week and the RFL will give us 2 points back. Is that a flying pig I see...

I don't think it's all over just yet, Wakefield were really poor tonight and without a silly sin binning and a try that shouldn't have been they would have lost to widnes.

I could see them slipping up, after yesterday us winning is the unlikely part.

Fear it's over
Judging by the injuries we picked up last night how can we compete with Catalans
Wakey will beat Salford. Gutted

I thought I would be gutted, but TBH right now I'm just happy to have a team.

It was always going to be a tough ask to be fair. The 6 point deduction was always going to be a massive handicap. There is very little pressure on the Bulls now, they will hopefully be fired up though after the horror show on Sat.

Salford V Wakey moved to Leigh sports village taking home advantage away from Salford. Makes game easier for Wakey?

How come?

Because there is already a game on Saturday afternoon.

Sale sharks have a game

I assume we're now playing on a neutral ground in France then?

Only 2 teams won against Catalan in france wigan and saints. They even sent Warrington home with their tails between their legs. This will be a massive ask as Catalan need to win to make sure Rhinos don't get in top 4.

Is it true that Salford v Wakefield moved to Sat evening now then? Again, how is that fair? The games need to kick off at the same time, surely?

We've never lost in Perp, let's hope we can continue that run!

Apparently so. Think your game can't be moved due to french broadcasting rights clashing with Sky and Salfords stadium used by sale sharks. Think sky have this idea that if your team wins that it will make ours exciting. Theory sounds good but could go wrong and our game could become a dead rubber. Also Leeds should be kicking off against Huddersfield on same day at same time because if Catalan win then leeds can't catch them for 4th they could rest loads of player as hull would need to win by a 100 to go above them and they are not playing you again this season.

I think it's fair to say the play off bird has flown following Saturday's abomination. I'll eat every item on Omar Khan's menu if Salford beat Wakefield and go back for seconds if we beat Catalans.

Might also be a good time to look at the difference the Magic Weekend has had on the league this year. Wakefield played the joint bottom club Castleford who have only won 6 games all year.. they obviously won that game. We were once again paired with a top 5 club versus Leeds..which we lost.

Complete farce of a concept that I just cannot support. If we're to continue with the play offs, the actual league has to be a completely fair process. It just isn't at the moment.

Have to agree with that.

I agree broadly, but if you look at the teams when the fixtures were announced, we were playing a club who had just missed out on the play-offs and we had finished next to bottom. Cas had the easy draw, not us. You're rewriting it with hindsight.

I'm not. If you were somebody that had too much time on your hands you could look back at my previous views on the magic weekend. I think the event is a farce and have said so on many occasions.

magic weekend should be round 14. play round 13 then look at league....play a challenge cup round then the week after play round 14 1v2, 3v4, 5v6 etc etc...then no-one gets an easy game........or do you want Wire v Widnes.......

I'd rather it was scrapped completely, but a random draw would seem to be the fairest solution. Or perhaps Nigel could expand his club call concept.. 1-7 pick their opponent!

Oh Hell's Bells - now I'm plaguing myself again with conspiracy theories....Jeffries sent off for a foul that never was, Seymour excused for a red card offence, Widnes ably assisted to a defeat by tries that shouldn't have been tries and now they move the Salford game to Wakey's advantage. Is there a feeling in anyone else's stomach-pit that it would be just too embarassing to have a team in the play-offs that you intend to demote to the Championship?

Don't forget the try that Silverwood gave us against KR when he thought Dobson got his foot to the ball from the kick off. After all, it's not like Bradford ever get the rub of the green is it? (except at BV this year when Wakey were pulled for a forward pass from a break that had TRY written all over it - only for the ref to visibly wince when he saw it on the big screen and realised it wasn't - or that Wakey ever get robbed like when Halibut cost us the game against wire when they scored the winning try from the seventh tackle of the set). We can all bleat about refs decisions, and we all do, but it does even out over a season (except for Wigan, Wire, Leeds and Saints - you know, the big clubs, remember when you were one?).

As for conspiracy theories - as a Wakey fan I can tell you that the RFL is bent, that Tony Smith practises black magic and that Neil Armstrong NEVER walked on the moon - we are the KINGS of the conspiracy theories!!!

Chicken's coming home to roost for some. After victimising Sykes for 2 years it seems quite ironic that his two late drop goals recently have eliminated us from the play-offs.