Whilst it might look dodgy I don’t see how it can be ‘fudged’. The clubs do their own lateral flow tests but any positives have to be backed up with a PCR test by an independent company. The close contact comes from GPS data from the trackers players wear at training as well as during matches. It’s all traceable and provable. I’d suggest in this case we’ve just been very unlucky but we’ll just have to beat them in the rearranged game.

Are you sure that the GPS set ups worn by players can actually identify duration of proximity to every other player? That’s what the NHS app is designed to do but it’s not what players’ GPS is designed for.

That’s how it was described to me as working.

Thats the problem dont see howit can be proven

Close contacts are being within 1 metre of each other for 1 minute or longer, or being within 2 metres of each other for more than 15 minutes in total in 1 day.

These contacts are monitored in training and in games.

They don't wear the GPS 24 hours a day.
All they need to say is that they all went for a coffee after training.

I'm usually the conspiracy buster on here but looks very convenient to me.

Maybe Leigh will be next?
Leeds seem to conveniently 'cry off' against Catalan and Saints but are in tip top health for Leigh!

I agree, the 7 'isolating' players should be from the named 21 man squad or their 20 man squad if one of them couldn't play because he was club banned.
7 out of the 20 squad isolating is a very convenient/coincidental number.

It's obvious what is going on (not just with Salford but other clubs) and as usual Trinity are the ones losing out by playing fair.
The RFL are useless and no wonder people are walking away from the game in droves. It's becoming a bad joke.

Obviously if any of the Salford players have actually contracted COVID I wish them a speedy recovery.

Then they will have checked into the venue and it would have been picked up by the NHS track & trace.

Now's the time to scrap the percentages and announce no relegation this season.
Cheating of one kind or another seems to be more prevalent in Rugby League as each season goes by. Even PT may agree with this.

Ken Davey said in an article the other day that The game was in a sorry state and no changes were to be made for next season, followed by a review the following season. If there is no relegation then the teams have a duty to fans and clubs and the game in general to get out on the field and play even if it’s fielding academy lads. This is getting completely out of and and stupid.