I don't believe that for a second to be honest. It would take a foolish man to miss the opportunity afforded us by not playing this week to rest plyers heading into the business end of the season, and I don't think for a second that SW is a fool.

Good point but i would ask why he chose to play players in the leeds semi who where quite clearly not match fit I.E Lima, when the team of players trusted in previous games where performing and where up to match speed.

He may not be dogmatic but he does certainly make some strange decisions around key games and losing a semi wont have done him any favours espcially when the chairman says we have lost a potential £250k because of that loss alone

I'm being coached at cycling. The aim is to peak for certain events. There are some hard blocks and some easy blocks of weeks. My performance in the hard blocks is less but the ultimate goal is in a few weeks time. I'm sure Bitcom will do similar.

They will know they can have 2 hard weeks now as there is a week with no game, then training will be less intense as the pay offs loom and the taper down to higher performance begins. The hard stuff now will be rewarded in a few weeks time.

Sorry to say you don’t have a right to a day off on a bank holiday; your employer can ask/make you work. That’s what I was told. If you work full time you must have a set number of days holiday, I think it’s around 28, but your employer doesn’t have to give you the days off you ask for. Anyway that’s what the Gestapo told me!

Does that mean I can get up and walk out? No? Didn't think so.

Somebody had better tell the U18's, they are playing at 2 p.m. on Monday afternoon
v Widnes at Orrell

Well, Waney gave at least Sam the day off on Friday
Spotted him in St Albans getting on the train down to Laandan.. must have been visiting big bruv.

I don't stalk people, and why I was in St Albans is my business.

Sorry to all, my mistake the bank holiday is included in your statutory right rather than actually being the day off on that day.

It's not a "statutory right". See the government's official page

and also here

I think you are getting mixed up in the right to leave, and the right to 'paid leave'. There is a difference.

Not sure who you are replying to there, TheSurgeon?

I was responding to claims that bank holidays were a statutory right to holidays (either paid or unpaid). The official government and therefore legal line is that there is no statutory right to paid or unpaid leave and that it is all down to your terms of employment, as defined by your personal contract. This is clearly on an individual basis - there is no "statutory" (i.e defined by statute, or "legally"icon_wink.gif right either way.

There's not even a "right to leave" defined legally as a general issue - it's all down to your personal contract of employment.

After today it seems like they are mentally "exhausted" or just not switched on for the full 80, really disappointed at the current standard of play considering it's at the business end of the season and going back a few months we was the hottest team in the competition for a long period of time.