Quote ="BP1"That does make some sense and is reasonably logic. So I guess, under that criteria, if we had finished tenth last year (or even bottom
) we would have been given a third derby (as rovers were second) instead of playing Wigan for a third time?
The Huddersfield game (9th v 11th) is the one to be played out at magic weekend alongside the likes of Wigan v Wire (1st v 3rd). That does look fairly clear, for once!'"
Yep, that's right re the derbies, and that's why we played them 3 times last year because the year before we were 10th and they were 4th.
The magic fixtures I guess are to try and reduce the blow outs and give 6 competitive matches on the big stage (which on paper look really good this year) so it seems to work. Just looks worse for us because we've been garbage haha
) we would have been given a third derby (as rovers were second) instead of playing Wigan for a third time?
