Reports of a Covid positive for Salford meaning the cant field a team and that game is in talks to be postponed.

Strangely a number of fans predicted this would happen.

Looks like our swings and roundabouts advantage of 4 suspensions gets given to another team.


This season is cack and far from a level playing field.

Becoming a farce.

Getting fed up with this now. Absolutely pathetic.

Now postponed.

Yep, just had an email form Salford confirming game off, with automatic refund "in 3 - 10 days".
Although I have sympathy with the covid cases, with their injuries and suspensions they will be delighted to be able to call this off.

Maybe we should follow the example of RU and award a 24 - 0 result, whether the absentees are covid related or not ?

Rugby league is getting to be a total joke, the people running the game are a laughing stock and will eventually make the game irrelevant

What a surprise!!

I guess we’ll be playing challenge cup final weekend then?

While I’m sure nobody wished to get a Covid this works perfect for them in terms of postponing a game against relegation rivals (the way they will see it) missing 4 players through suspension and a couple of injuries. We are also in good form so that will be stunted.

The thing that annoys me is we lose the advantsge if facing a depleted Salford team through suspension and injury.

Seems like Castlrford will benefit from those now .... lucky Cas.

They never had any intention of playing this fixture

Unfortunately it's the luck of the draw, bloody frustrating though.

Frustrating how we rarely get any.

The annoying thing too is instead of facing a depleted Salford we face a well rested saints team who haven’t played in 4 weeks and pretty much had a mid season break. That’s going to be tough to get anything from and likely hurt our % if we don’t get a win.

We could have all but secured our SL place is we’d have taken down a depleted out of form Salford.

Not to be but it’s so not a level playing field at all and incredibly frustrating that Cas who could be our potential rivals now benefit and could pull away widening the gap aided by an advantage we should have had.

It is what it is I suppose.

I was in the trinity shop this morning when the news came through,

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I'm with you 100% on this one Mopsey.
My interest in the game I have loved for many years is just hovering above write stuff it on the interest gauge.

I’m not sure he will have a choice in the end? There are only a few RFL designated slots available for re-scheduling and that is one. Protocol is the fixtures are allocated in order they were postponed in the first available slot. If that date fits that then i imagine thats when it will be have to be played.

I do find it an incredible coincidence that apparently they were rushing about last minute with short terms loans to throw a team together (I even heard they were denied a postponement as well) and now they have a Covid case that rules out 7 of there senior squad, genuine question, as the clubs do there own testing, do SL ask for evidence of the testing results?