Just watching the Wakey, Catalan game, interesting that when Justin Pore was injured and Wakey wanted to make a substitution, they were stopped by the officials as Pore was still on the pitch. So, simple question, what were the officials doing last week in our game against Cas. Not an excuse, just an observation/question

I can accept that Salford were also at fault but surely there has to be some responsibility and blame attributed to the touchline official, otherwise what's the point employing them to do a job if they are above criticism when something like this goes wrong. I would be very surprised if the officials error doesn't get conveniently swept under the carpet by Steve Ganson. It will interesting to see if the RFL put all the blame on us without mention of the touchline official.

Until the investigation,we don't know whether it was the officials fault.
It's possible that our substitution bypassed the 4th official,by us not following the accepted procedure correctly.
I hope not , but it is possible .

For me what it does show is that there is a joint responsibility between the club and the match officials. Clearly at the Wakefield game the officials were being extra vigilant. I am not trying to absolve Salford of blame, just pointing out that others also have a "touch line management" role.

It will be interesting to see what the punishment is. It will need to be closely thought through, as a points deduction is achievable in a league game, but what about knock out cup competitions? You could not deduct points, so the punishment would need to be different. Would you then award the tie to the other team? Talk about opening a can of worms.

One problem now out of the way - rlNo charge - Griffinrl

Just the 14 players issue for tomorrrow.

£10k fine apparently. Could be worse I suppose.

Bit steep I think. How come Saints only got 100 quid ?...

It wasn't at a critical point in the game. Saints were already well in the lead.

Do agree though, the difference in the fines is pretty staggering even with that.

Imagine how many jester hats you could get with £10k.

Do you think the RFL know we have a little cash now? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/22450831 Didn't expect it to be a fine this hefty. Good job the Doc had a winner today.

Do you think the RFL know we have a little cash now? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/22450831 Didn't expect it to be a fine this hefty. Good job the Doc had a winner today.

Saints actually lost the game. Given when we had the extra player on the pitch and the position in which Castleford were, we can't really argue with it. Just glad we didn't lose the points.

I wonder how Koukash will afford to pay it. Oh yeah he won £70k at the races today didn't he...

Surely we would prefer to pay the fine and take the two points

What good are the points going to do us? I thought the same originally, but we aren't going to make the top 8 and we aren't going to get relegated, so....?

Agreed, we're not going to make the top 8 but I still want to finish as high up the table as we can. Kind of a pride thing really, don't want to see us bottom of the pile.