£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.

A good point. We do at least have pride to play for. However, we are supposed to be witnessing the dawn of a new era in which we are going to become a successful club, which means a successful business. Pride doesn't pay the bills.

But it is still a good point.

It's ok saying we have nothing to plays for because we ain't going to finish in top 8 or get relegated but if the players take that attitude then we will get hampered every week like last week and as a fan that ain't good enough

I think we all knew this season would be the 'laying of the foundations' and we wouldn't be making the playoffs or seeing much short term success.

I think I'd be more annoyed/worried about the fine if we didn't have the financial backing that we have now. Some of the comments I've seen on Twitter saying that £10k is a nothing punishment because we have a rich owner make me think that certain people would be perfectly fine with that punishment if we were in the sort of financial position we faced last season.

I'd imagine the aggravating circumstances for the fine would have been (like I said before) the fact we won and that Castleford were attacking our goal line late in the game but the punishment would have probably been mitigated by the situation being unintentional, meaning we weren't docked points. I read that when Canterbury were docked 2 points in the NRL for the same thing, the player was explicitly told not to go on the field before his team mate had come off. My guess would be that we were just told that we could make the interchange.

Where does the 10k go? Seems crazy dishing out big fines when the games on it's ar$e and potentially heading for a return to amateur status when Sky pull out or negotiate a much smaller deal in the future. More quality players inevitability leaving our sport will only weaken our broadcasting appeal.

Personally I would rather take a points deduction.

For what it's worth I think you've got the ty end of the stick!

A few years ago Hornets played Oldham and at half time the Biffos made a substitution. Unfortunately the lad who got subbed was taking a leak at the time and when he came back nobody mentioned it and he ran out with the rest of the team.

Only when Hornets' bench did a count about 3 mins into the second half did it get sorted.

Oldham didn't even get a reprimand!!!

Pugwash.