After Wilkins breakdown  due to the  Murphy no try decision against HKR a suicide watch might be needed or at least an intervention following this bad news. 

If you criticise Saints are you Antisaintmetic?

Jukesy on the the forum said the rules aren't in place this season anyway and you'd tend to think that is the case when you consider Nsemba was played at Salford. I don't think we do that if we think he'll be sat down later in the season. 

**Edit** Just reading on all out rugby league that the RFL are writing to the clubs 'suggesting' they stick to these rules this season but the clubs are going to ignore them, on the basis that they were not given any confirmation of them prior to the season starting. 


Total and utter RFL incompetence again. 

Not that it needs highlighting, but it just shows how incompetent the RFL are. It's absolutely typical of them and completely embarrassing for game. These minutes rules should be abandoned anyway IMO but if they have evidence that it will be beneficial for players and are hell bent on introducing them then just abandon it for this season, put clear legislation and guidance together so its ready to be rolled out to the clubs when they all report back for preseason in November/December so everyone knows where they stand before the 2026 season kicks off.

Am i missing something? It seriously cannot be that difficult to make that decision and do the right thing for the clubs and players.

Does this potential new rule have salary cap implications? If the RFL are determining how many minutes players can play then that would suggest clubs need bigger squads to cope with players missing games...

Cant remember if it was on here or Warriors fans but someone had suggested increasing the subs bench, which is a reasonable suggestion, but that would clearly benefit Wigan for example who run a bigger squad than most, and thats not necessarily including the young talent we could bring through

however, if running a bigger bench / squad, that would surely lead to calls for the cap to be increased or other clubs saying its not a level playing field as they cant afford it


all in all, a farce, and for me stick with how it is now, and let the clubs manage it

I mentioned a larger bench from four to eight. In that clubs have to name a squad of 21 reduced to 17 an hour before KO. It may benefit Wigan in the larger picture but each of the 12 SL clubs has to name 21 for a game. In soccer they have a bench of around eight Union the same. Our bench of 4 in out of date, needs modifying and this is the opportunity.


Clubs like us Saints and Leeds will have the advantage due to current work in the youth sector. All three clubs have the four tier set up with Scholarship, Academy, Reserves and First Team. Other teams are now going along with the four tier but it needs to be a requirement in the new 14 team Super League.