Okay so it's now four days since it became known for certain that us and Leeds would not require a Cup Final replay and this still hasn't been sorted out.
I'm sweating on a change to the Friday because I can't get the Saturday off work now and I can't for the life of me see why they can't confirm it either way.
The RFL and Sky know that Wigan have finished top and Wigan Athletic are at home that weekend so they will require either a ground change or a switch to a Sunday fixture, and they know that us and Saints will finish second and third in either order. They also know that we will not have to play Leeds on the Wednesday night in Sheffield so can have no reasonable objection to a fixture on the Friday.
If Wigan are to play on the Sunday then one other fixture needs to move to the Friday to accommodate the switch. Whether it's our game (I hope) or a straight swap with a fixture currently down for the Sunday (I expect but hope not) then they should have confirmed it either way by now. The clubs will all want to know the permutations going into this weekend's games so home clubs can start selling tickets on the Monday with everyone knowing when the game will be, so leaving the announcements until after this weekend's games suits nobody. If they're going to announce it before this weekend's games then there is no reasonable reason why they haven't done so already.
If they wait it's presumably because Sky want to see if an appetising fixture (a Hull derby perhaps?) can be swapped with Wigan, thus getting the weekend off to a mouth watering start without shuffling more fixtures around. I could understand that if there was a gap of two weeks between this weekend and play off week one, but with it being the following weekend they are out of order in not confirming it sooner.
