Whitehaven : Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:01 pm  

We are due to a home game Sept 8th, but if they stay true to their/them the players being on strike for the rest of the season, does that mean all the league points will be awarded to the teams they should play ?
I have have never known such a players strike with these details that the players have, I do appreciate the players position ,& they are entitled to all back pay etc.

Re: Whitehaven : Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:11 pm  

Would mean we have a 48-0 walkover as per the rules, as would all other outstanding fixtures

Re: Whitehaven : Wed Aug 21, 2024 8:37 pm  

Kirmudgeonlyisback wrote:

Would mean we have a 48-0 walkover as per the rules, as would all other outstanding fixtures

Will make a change, us nilling someone!

Re: Whitehaven : Wed Aug 21, 2024 9:48 pm  

Our 2024 conceding record currently stands at:

0, three times
2, once
4, once
6, seven times

Re: Whitehaven : Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:19 pm  

Can't recall any teams going on strike since Bradford Northern's back in 1990. The RFL took away a planned fixture against the touring Aussies and gave it to us instead iirc.

Re: Whitehaven : Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:42 pm  

I think we had a problem at the end of the Pearman era when players were not paid and many refused to play. If my memory does not fail me in addition to the pay problem the club did not provide the players with insurance to cover loss of earnings should they sustain an injury. This was totally unacceptable and some chose that it was too much of a risk and withdrew from the team.

[Wildthing]

Re: Whitehaven : Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:03 am  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote: I think we had a problem at the end of the Pearman era when players were not paid and many refused to play. If my memory does not fail me in addition to the pay problem the club did not provide the players with insurance to cover loss of earnings should they sustain an injury. This was totally unacceptable and some chose that it was too much of a risk and withdrew from the team. Didn't we beat St Helens at home just after that, in a game we shouldn't have had a prayer of winning? Edit - we did https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seas ... mmary.html

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote: I think we had a problem at the end of the Pearman era when players were not paid and many refused to play. If my memory does not fail me in addition to the pay problem the club did not provide the players with insurance to cover loss of earnings should they sustain an injury. This was totally unacceptable and some chose that it was too much of a risk and withdrew from the team. Didn't we beat St Helens at home just after that, in a game we shouldn't have had a prayer of winning? Edit - we did https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seas ... mmary.html

Re: Whitehaven : Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:58 pm  

Wildthing wrote: Didn't we beat St Helens at home just after that, in a game we shouldn't have had a prayer of winning? Edit - we did https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seas ... mmary.html Not many of Pearman's Super Stars still around then. I think Andy Kelly was long gone too???? Don't think he lasted much after the away defeat at Fax.

Wildthing wrote: Didn't we beat St Helens at home just after that, in a game we shouldn't have had a prayer of winning? Edit - we did https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seas ... mmary.html Not many of Pearman's Super Stars still around then. I think Andy Kelly was long gone too???? Don't think he lasted much after the away defeat at Fax.

Re: Whitehaven : Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:53 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Not many of Pearman's Super Stars still around then. I think Andy Kelly was long gone too???? Don't think he lasted much after the away defeat at Fax.

I am sadly once again back to my memory but I thought the impacted game was the last one and against Castleford away.

Re: Whitehaven : Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:29 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

I am sadly once again back to my memory but I thought the impacted game was the last one and against Castleford away.

Here's a clip from newspaper report (The Indepandant) reporting about Tony Kemp calling it a day in the UK .


Kemp, who played for the Kiwis in the 1995 World Cup, joined Wakefield from Leeds two years ago and succeeded Andy Kelly as coach in May.