Matthew Shaw
@M_Shaw1
Hearing Leeds v Wakefield definitely off.

Talks taking place regarding Warrington. Believe a number of their players are being stood down due to the RFL's track & trace. If the Wolves don't play Hull FC, the Black and Whites will play Leeds. Depends on if Wire want to play.

and further update ....


Matthew Shaw
@M_Shaw1
Hearing Warrington v Hull WILL go ahead this weekend.

No game for Leeds.

From a purely selfish Wire point of view you would hope that none of our players were deemed to be at risk following a review of the Wakefield game and that we play Hull FC on Friday with a full strength team.

If you were running the League then you would probably want Wire to stand down and for Leeds to face Hull FC. This spreads the backlog of games (Wire have played 9, Leeds only 8 so you don't want them slipping further behind) and it also minimises the risk of a Wire player testing positive next week having played this week.

We'll just have to wait and see but there are too many players testing positive which doesn't bode well for the rest of the season.

6 Warrington players stood down for next 2 games following track and trace results

Imagine this happens the week before the Challenge Cup Final or the Grand Final, and a team has to stand down multiple players. I have to agree with St Helens Wolf - it doesn't bode well.

By the sounds of it 'several' players will be stood down - I guess it just depends on who. Knowing our luck it will be D Clark, Widdop, Austin & Ratchford!

We have a relatively healthy squad and are building a little bit of form, so I think it's the right decision to play as long as the RFL protocols etc allow it. It looks lik ethere will be plenty of games to be played in short succession at the back end of the year, lets play as many as we can safely now.

Have we had a case yet where a player has directly infected a player from the opposing team? I guess potentially we have the case with Catalans & Wakey but I don't think it's been confirmed if the Wakefield squad was infected by Catalan or just from general population?

According to the Warrington Guardian 6 players stood down for next two games but Friday's game will go ahead.

As I mentioned above.

Season is fast becoming a lottery

I'm enjoying the style of play and will enjoy seeing some of the fringe players get a game so glad its going ahead. Hopefully we can maintain some form and win one of the next two games at least but it will be tough.

I don't really understand the logic the RFL are applying in any of this (there may be a clue with the words logic and RFL).

Given our tests have come back negative and all fhe squad had equal exposure to the Wakefield players, how have they arrived at a figure of six and what are the criteria?

It's based on GPS tracking of players contact time with those infective players of Wakefield.

Surely if its one its all? How on earth do they come up with 6? How is this done? I know they are using GPS...is this down to 'player X tackled player Y 4 times' so has a higher exposure than player Z' ?

Thats pretty much how it works yes, not sure if its number of tackles or total time of close contact.