Quote The Chair Maker="The Chair Maker"Interestingly the city of hull has very low levels of covid so i think the chances of the players catching it there will have been very low. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... 0City%20of However if we look at Kirklees and Bradford things are pretty bad https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... e=Kirklees https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... e=Bradford With regard to Wakefield and Leeds its less so, but still higher than Hull https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... Name=Leeds https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... =Wakefield Greater Manchester as a whole is bad at the moment with Oldham being very bad https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... ame=Oldham So my suspicion is one or more of the lads had a night out in west yorkshire and brought something back with them to the club. Would be interesting to know if the infected players are from outside the Hull area.'" Total speculation and likely trying to cause racial disharmony on a RL forum . IGNORE. It is not where the players live, it is what they do and who they meet. They need to be isolated throughout.

Quote The Chair Maker="The Chair Maker"Interestingly the city of hull has very low levels of covid so i think the chances of the players catching it there will have been very low. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... 0City%20of However if we look at Kirklees and Bradford things are pretty bad https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... e=Kirklees https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... e=Bradford With regard to Wakefield and Leeds its less so, but still higher than Hull https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... Name=Leeds https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... =Wakefield Greater Manchester as a whole is bad at the moment with Oldham being very bad https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases?a ... ame=Oldham So my suspicion is one or more of the lads had a night out in west yorkshire and brought something back with them to the club. Would be interesting to know if the infected players are from outside the Hull area.'" Total speculation and likely trying to cause racial disharmony on a RL forum . IGNORE. It is not where the players live, it is what they do and who they meet. They need to be isolated throughout.

Whos to say a hull player picked it up at Tesco when he was doing his weekly shop and unwittingly spread it?

Think its a bit harsh to get the pick forks out just yet

How do we know it started from a Hull player? The only way that can be guaranteed for sure is if Salford tests come back negative, which shows that Hull players were mingling with non-players socially on Sunday night after the game and before the went to the training ground on the Monday.

Hull has one of the lowest infection rates in the UK. Salford are based in one of the largest areas for infection in the UK with local lockdowns in place close to them. Maybe we have detected it because our testing was Monday and Salford's was Tuesday? Perhaps it was Ryan Lannon who had it first, and passed it when he gave Josh Griffin a facial across his nose and mouth during the match, and Griffin gave it o Jordan Johnstone and Josh Bowden on Sunday night?

All hypothetical's, and what if's. End of the day, we don't know where it came from, who had it first and the potential effect it can have on the season and the sport. All I know is that I wish the players involved a speedy recovery and they get back fit soon

Good men and women have died, sometimes struggling and dying in pain and solitude due to this plague from Asia, god knows I don’t want to play the forum police, but some posters need to evaluate their contributions on this serious matter.

According to Jenna Brooks on Twitter, all Salford players' tests came back negative. However, 11 of the players now need to self isolate for 14 days after coming into contact with the infected Hull players. As previously said, we don't know where/how the Hull players have caught the virus, it could easily have been brought home by a player's wife then transmitted at training so stupid and naive put the blame on the Hull players directly.

If the procedures under which SL has restarted allow players (and other members of their households, to go out shopping, and seemingly to pubs judging by posts on SM, then they really aren't fit for purpose.

Are players Wives, Girlfriends, Boyfriends etc. not permitted to go to work either? Our players don't earn enough for their partner not to work, or get a live in Nanny etc for childcare. There is only so much they can do to protect themselves. Daily testing needed to be a priority

Adam Pearson has just been on the radio. He said that initially, they think that it has come from a player's young newborn baby, who had to be admitted to hospital. The player had some rehab on an injury on Saturday which looks like it passed to a physio, and gone from there.

I think the RFL/Superleague need to take a tougher stance on what is expected of the players. I’ve just read a young Cricketer from Kent has been stood down for a game and told to isolate after taking a selfie with a fan, after he’d just scored 200+ runs in an innings. The kid is 19, had just put in the performance of his life and in the elation forgets himself and takes a picture with a fan and that’s how tough the sport will be on them. You compare that to us and it’s laughable really. Players out on the lash, players at football clubs fans mass gatherings to celebrate trophy wins/promotions and so on. The players have been great in taking pay cuts across the board but as a collective I think this new players Union really needs to get them all in zoom meetings and the like and discuss just how serious this situation could be if they don’t make more sacrifices.

If that is the case then seems inevitable some Salford players will develop it also?
If Pearsons theory is correct then at least it's not been introduced from a players daft antics like some speculated. The facts will come out either way.

The Salford tests came back negative, but 11 players have to self isolate for 14 days

Then SL shouldn't have restarted.