God only knows maybe it's to prove that our floodlight failure was a one of, or it's to pay back Wigan for all the times we have travelled over to the pennines on a fri night, or it might be to do with spreading the games over the Easter holiday.

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My guess is its to give an extra couple of days recovery prior to the easter double header.

Correct, in fact, there are no scheduled SL games this Sunday, 5 games Friday, 2 on Saturday for the above reason.

Saturday's televised Salford-Bradford game should make for interesting viewing, if nothing else to count the attending speccies. Who's idea was it to shove a Salford game on tv at the same time as a televised cup semi Man City v Man Utd? They will be lucky to get 3,000.

That is exactly as I read it as well.

You can't really say Alibert was brought in only for expansion, I mean, the first pro-game he refereed was a Northern Ford game in 2001.

If not for the French outfit being in the Superleague, I would like to agree and say that Alibert probably wouldn't be a Superleague referee. It's hard to be sure though, Child's has made it. One could wonder if Child's (with his excessive penalties) and Alibert (misses everything) are appointed to simply make the rest of the officials seem adequately competent.

Then they are failing miserably.