It did occur last season. Hull KR and Halifax were(possibly still are?) partnered.

Unless there are as yet unannounced rules for partnered clubs who end up together in the 8's it does strike me as an accident waiting to happen.

As I posted it up before that interview came out, I think I do know what they were doing. They knew last week they were going to America, and they also knew that the players were not going. Tickets were already in place.

As I said, perhaps that interview was beginning of last week and has just been delayed coming out, with the laugh I mentioned because at today it was very out of date. Doesn't change anything though, we are as we are.

Quite a claim when you couldn't even get Oledzki's age and month of birth correct and you made no claim of Hall and Moon not travelling, whom a decision on them not going won't have been made a full week before the departure for Florida.

Tbf it might have been. Had Hall or Moon's partners given birth early it's still good employment practice not to take them thousands of miles away from their families for a large amount of time right when they're needed most at home.

ones out Ill now anyway and not going. And I had no idea which first teamers had pulled out, I just knew the two young ones had tickets booked last week,