Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:23 am  

People saying what's true and what isn't true. What I know is true ,is that the situation has been a farce and I will be glad when it gets sorted once and for all

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:29 am  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Hold on…

Why are we letting an opposition club representative dictate if they want to play on a pitch or not???

Surely it will undergo a pitch inspection by a professional and if it passes the benchmark it will be played.

I’m confused. Can someone explain?

Taken from last night’s tweet.
I think if there is any costs for the inspection, then HKR should foot the bill, they are the club raising concerns, requiring the inspection.

A decision on the Belle Vue pitch will be made tonight. Hull KR still have safety concerns after inspecting the surface alongside Wakefield and a representative from the RFL. No decision was taken so it's gone back to the RFL Board who will make the final call

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:54 am  

Dunkirk Spirit wrote:

Taken from last night’s tweet.
I think if there is any costs for the inspection, then HKR should foot the bill, they are the club raising concerns, requiring the inspection.

A decision on the Belle Vue pitch will be made tonight. Hull KR still have safety concerns after inspecting the surface alongside Wakefield and a representative from the RFL. No decision was taken so it's gone back to the RFL Board who will make the final call

I’ll bet they are raising concerns with 3 players out HIA and player banned.

Rubbish this, the last game was played and both Trinity and Hudds came through fine. It also was passed as acceptable in an independent pitch inspection.

So basically if the pitch goes ahead and it’s Hull KR that are kicking up a fuss and requested the inspection.

Can we bill them for the lost sky money?? Afterall they have requested it despite no concerns after last game. If it passes and gets the go ahead we as a club should demand recompense from Hull KR imho. We certainly shouldn’t roll over. It’s passed 2 inspections and the last game played there was no ill effects. Get it played for heavens sake.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:58 am  

Further to that.

It has passed its inspections twice. Last game there were no issues.

It seems like:

Trinity want to play, hull kr don’t.

I hope trinity are saying that if they refuse to play we expect Hull KR to forfeit the league points to us.

After all the pitch passed an independent inspection with no issues in the game after.

I hope we play hard ball.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:02 am  

Trojan Horse wrote:

I’ll bet they are raising concerns with 3 players out HIA and player banned.

Rubbish this, the last game was played and both Trinity and Hudds came through fine. It also was passed as acceptable in an independent pitch inspection.

So basically if the pitch goes ahead and it’s Hull KR that are kicking up a fuss and requested the inspection.

Can we bill them for the lost sky money?? Afterall they have requested it despite no concerns after last game. If it passes and gets the go ahead we as a club should demand recompense from Hull KR imho. We certainly shouldn’t roll over. It’s passed 2 inspections and the last game played there was no ill effects. Get it played for heavens sake.

As I mentioned before, if I were a cynic I'd say some clubs could use this hus to their advantage. If the RFL inspector was happy then that's that.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:11 am  

Well according to the Twitter link, inspection took place, but no decision made. So was it passed or not ? if it was passed, why has the inspector of the pitch left it to the RFL.

By the way some are saying it passed for the Hudds game I heard it was very borderline and left for the clubs to decide. Both agreed as Watson was more concerned about a fixture back log and chose the lesser of two evils.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:21 am  

Prince Buster wrote:

By the way some are saying it passed for the Hudds game I heard it was very borderline and left for the clubs to decide. Both agreed as Watson was more concerned about a fixture back log and chose the lesser of two evils.

That would suggest that the RFL (or whoever passed it) recommended the fixture to go ahead. It would leave them wide open to criticism for that decision, regarding Health & Safety, if after 3 weeks of further grass growth and no use they now came out with a different verdict.
We are surely further away from the borderline.
Ian Watson's post match comments were pretty positive in light of his pre match worries too.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:23 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

That would suggest that the RFL (or whoever passed it) recommended the fixture to go ahead. It would leave them wide open to criticism for that decision, regarding Health & Safety, if after 3 weeks of further grass growth and no use they now came out with a different verdict.

Well I suppose we will have to wait and see what today brings

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:27 am  

Fundamentally, if it passes an independent inspection and one club refuses to play on it, they should forfeit the game.

Re: Wakefield v HKR : Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:34 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Fundamentally, if it passes an independent inspection and one club refuses to play on it, they should forfeit the game.

They won’t refuse to play, they’re just trying their hand