Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:12 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

There must be some doubts about the Saints v Hull KR game as Saints don't seem to be selling tickets for it. The sport appears to be in complete crisis and they need to get on a Zoom call and decide what they are going to do in order to ensure the competition is completed properly and that every game that possibly can be played is. Asking the players to go into Australia style bubbles and isolate to minimise cases would seem to be common sense.

Asking (some) players on 20-30k to basically put their life on hold ? RL in oz is their main sport and the players are minted, similar to football players here, RL players in the UK, which is a minority sport ain't going to agree to that especially as stuff opens up, summer holidays etc.

Though I agree the game is in big trouble because of covid. For me they need to look at the contact side of things and stick to testing rather than isolating.

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:47 pm  

Towns88 wrote:

Asking (some) players on 20-30k to basically put their life on hold ? RL in oz is their main sport and the players are minted, similar to football players here, RL players in the UK, which is a minority sport ain't going to agree to that especially as stuff opens up, summer holidays etc.

Though I agree the game is in big trouble because of covid. For me they need to look at the contact side of things and stick to testing rather than isolating.

Yeah, you're right. It's going to get even worse as the restrictions have been lifted now, so a lot of the players who don't believe in covid or vaccines will be out and about with no masks on and no social distancing and they won't be doing anything wrong by doing that.

They need to get the season completed with as many matches played as possible now crowds are allowed back. Sky seem annoyed at Super League, they're only televising one game a week now when they used to do as many as three and I think there is a limit where they can pull the funding. It must be crippling for the clubs financially as they're refunding the season ticket holders and missing out on ticket revenue and food/drink sales they could be making now. Surely the clubs could get together and agree as a competition that rather than isolating, they make close contacts train separately to the main group and test them twice daily or something like that. That's what my work is doing, probably illegal but there's a lot at stake if they keep calling games off because 7 are unavailable. My main point that clubs that can possibly get a side out should do so, even if it means losing. It looks like Saints are going to call off their next two home games, but I'd much prefer them to play them if they can.

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Wed Jul 21, 2021 7:04 am  

Saddened! wrote:

The England players were rested by Wane. Not sure if we didn't release any for the All Stars, but I doubt many of ours bar Grace and Paasi would get in that team anyway.

Saints' attitude to international rugby this year has been appalling, they've refused to release players for England training camps and actively blocked any players joining the All Stars, they'd stop players playing in the World Cup if they thought it might impact them.

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:19 am  

Cas are a miracle club, covid, injuries decimated then lazarus like full squad for wembley week, did a deal with covid then its back 4 days after. They'll name this the jungle variant of selective infections

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:26 am  

barham red wrote:

Cas are a miracle club, covid, injuries decimated then lazarus like full squad for wembley week, did a deal with covid then its back 4 days after. They'll name this the jungle variant of selective infections

Cas Tigers played same number of games as Wigan, Hudds and Wakey but seem to be at brunt for criticism.

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:49 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Yeah, you're right. It's going to get even worse as the restrictions have been lifted now, so a lot of the players who don't believe in covid or vaccines will be out and about with no masks on and no social distancing and they won't be doing anything wrong by doing that.

They need to get the season completed with as many matches played as possible now crowds are allowed back. Sky seem annoyed at Super League, they're only televising one game a week now when they used to do as many as three and I think there is a limit where they can pull the funding.

I doubt very much they will pull any finding and damage the sport they've paid for for 2022 & 2023.....

SKY will get those two seasons at a much lower price, a very big saving, so no real chance they will hammer it now.....

Kick a dog whilst it's down?....... Not for me.

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:10 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

Cas Tigers played same number of games as Wigan, Hudds and Wakey but seem to be at brunt for criticism.

'Played' is a bit of stretch when 2 of those 14 games you're referring to were forfeited.

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:37 pm  

Tigerade wrote:

Cas Tigers played same number of games as Wigan, Hudds and Wakey but seem to be at brunt for criticism.

nope, 2 of those 14 games were 24-0 (one awarded to saints the other awarded to cas from hudds) so only played 1 more game the the 2 hull sides that have played the least

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:01 pm  

Cas Tigers fixtures 2021:-

Warrington H
Leeds A
HKR CC
Leigh H
Wigan A
Salford H
Salford CC
HKR H
Warrington A
Leeds H
Warrington CC
Hull H
Wakey A
Cats H
Saints Postponed
Hudds Postponed
Salford H
Saints CC

Played 16 out of 18 (16 out of 19 after this weekend). I recon that’s not too bad compared to some other SL sides.

Re: Cas - Concede game against Saints : Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:11 pm  

Interesting that London have been docked 2 points for not fulfilling their fixture against Toulouse.