Quote BullCharge="BullCharge"Dave Petersen has joined Sheffield Eagles on a 1-month loan deal: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... ack_rower/'" I take it there's a bit of gamesmanship going on? Is it pure coincidence that Leigh try to strengthen London by loaning them Walker just before we play them? Then the next day we try to strengthen Sheffield by loaning them Petersen a couple of weeks before they play Leigh?

Quote BullCharge="BullCharge"Dave Petersen has joined Sheffield Eagles on a 1-month loan deal: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... ack_rower/'" I take it there's a bit of gamesmanship going on? Is it pure coincidence that Leigh try to strengthen London by loaning them Walker just before we play them? Then the next day we try to strengthen Sheffield by loaning them Petersen a couple of weeks before they play Leigh?

It is a timely signing, in more ways than one with the way you've worded it. Our usual loose forward Pat Walker broke his toe in the game against Bradford so the signing of Petersen is a good one for us. Looking forward to seeing him take the field.

So were we back in January but we never had the chance. Hope he goes well.

He is on a one year deal so needs to put himself in the shop window, particularly as he hasn't had a real chance here.

Thought it would be interesting to see what the Super 8 fixtures would be if the first part of the season had ended now.

I'd say those home fixtures look pretty winnable which would put us in a good place in terms of promotion as you'll need, I'm guessing at least 4 wins from the 7 games to guarantee a top 4 spot

Have they changed the fixture format? I though of we finished 1st we only got one SL team at home.

Hmm, how strange. If you look on the SL website, the grid for the super league super 8 and the championship shield super 8 are both the same, using the original fixture grid that everyone saw back in December 2014.

But the qualifying super 8 grid is different, as we can see above.



So either everyone assumed (incorrectly) that we were going to use the same grid as the other super 8s, or the RFL have changed our grid on the sly.

The RFL have changed that on the sly. I remember looking at the original grid on the championship site

And the team that finished top of the championship had one SL team at home.



Think there is now a clear advantage to finishing first than second. Need to put Donny to the cleaners tomorrow.

Thats a different grid that was on the Championship & SL websites a couple of weeks ago. I wonder why they've changed it quietly?

I think they perhaps realised thy wasn't much advantage to finishing 1st in the championship with only 1 SL team at home. Now they clearly is IMO

If you look at the paragraph under the tables it clearly states: