Saints have tonight be awarded the game against Cas tomorrow due to 'a range of unfortunate circumstances'. Namely that Cas can't field a team in Super League.

It's getting beyond a joke now. Any team not fielding a team should lose the points. Covid is just a convenient excuse for unprofessionalism and not fancying games. Tried to wriggle out of it but finally someone has seen through one of these 'covid crisis' situations and taken the points off them.

I know you're obsessed with conspiracy theories but what should Cas have done exactly?

24-0 to Saints. Happy with that. Probably much closer than the usual result.

Meanwhile Saints chose to opt players out of the International fixture to keep them fresh for the SL games.

Farce of a competition.

The England players were rested by Wane. Not sure if we didn't release any for the All Stars, but I doubt many of ours bar Grace and Paasi would get in that team anyway.

Kev ? The other matautia surely gets in a 19 man squad over Junior Moors ?

Conspiracy theories? Que?

I don't know. If they've genuinely got so many injuries, why did they loan another player out yesterday to York? Surely they would need him for their next game against Huddersfield? I sympathise with them, the scheduling of the England/All Stars game wasn't great but they had 17 first teamers for their last Super League game and a couple who played very well in the England game. It just seems more like a protest against the ridiculousness of the scheduling than them being genuinely unable to field a team. It seems a very Ian Millward moment. But if they've genuinely got around 15 injuries as claimed then fair enough.

We've only played 9 Super League games this season, some will have played 13 by the weekend. There are no spare weekends left. If tomorrow hadn't been judged a walkover, Saints would have been struggling to make the playoffs if any more got postponed.

The player we sent on loan 2 weeks ago, we recalled back to play against catalan, he came on in the 2nd half. It was very kind of york to allow him to play. There's every chance he's included In the players who are fit to play.

Yeah possibly, I'd forgotten them. I might be wrong but I think we didn't get any chosen as we had so many involved overall. But then they were cut from the squad by England or sent home with knocks. It is poor if we just didn't allow any of them to play.

You claim Cas are "wriggling out of it" and previously suggested Leeds deliberately allowed a deadly virus to spread amongst their squad to avoid a game.

I know Saints fans have gone all-in tinfoil hat in the past few years but... really?

What's the shout about tinfoil hats about? I really don't get what you're on about? Have there been Saints fans chasing aliens or claiming covid isn't real?

I remember playing local football and on to an away game stopping in the streets asking locals if they wanted bring their boots, we picked up a couple but was still short and got hammered

Can you imagine a rugby union team, football team, Volleyball team, cricket team, tiddylywinks team or knitting team not be able to put a team out?

No, neither can I, yet people still think the game in this country isnt a laughing stock and is in rude health.

Its on life support

Have you been in coma for the last 18 months given this has happened across all sports repeatedly?
(But I know this doesn't fit with the "game dying" narrative BS.)

Daftest post of the year so far

Maybe Powell and Cas have pulled a master stroke here, so that Saint's dont get a dress rehearsal of the cup final, which is only a few weeks away and perhaps they have a few surprises in store for you on the day

This is the that i'm not looking forward to with powell coming to warrington, i hate this constant repetition of 'we've got injuries' which has been going for about 4 years now. as much as people dont like warrington for various reasons, we never make excuses over this, last week, we had a large chunk of players missing for the england game, we didn't get it moved cos we know theres more fixtures coming, just suck it up and play it.

Last year when we had 7/8 out cos of covid at the last minute, we didn't ask for games to get put off, whacked some academy kids in and sucked it up and played the 3 games that were affected.

I'm hoping that one of the first things powell gets told on day one is, no excuses bull like this.

Wakefield had 14 players missing at point last year and still fielded a team. Cas, Hudds, Leeds, Rovers are an embarrassment in this regard.

Powel and Cas suggest that they have injuries and covid issues right through their squad from First team ight down into their academy sides.
I know that we are in unprecedented times but, you would have thought they could muster 17 players.

He (Powell) is probably working on a bit of siege mentality to try and glean that extra few percent for the Cup Final.
My club Trinity have been plagued by injuries for the last couple of seasons, especially last year and yet, managed to complete the highest number of fixtures of any SL club last season, granted we didn't win many but, at least we had a team on the park.

I would gamble that Powell is "happy" to have this one postponed.

So lets get this right, teams following COVID rulings regarding closing training grounds, self isolation and testing are an embarrassment. Are you any relation to Matt Hancock

The game is dying in this country.

LOL, check out Tony Collins' latest podcast for a summary of the history of people like you.

Your not going to get a medal for the team that completes most games though are you. When and if the current percentage rules are abandoned and we get back to the old 2 points for a win scenario Trinity's fantastic gesture of playing all games at all costs will be long forgotten.

Cas have lost 24-0 because they can’t raise a team. If this had been down to Covid they wouldn’t have lost 24-0.

Plain and simple they can’t raise a team because they are a tin pot club in a tin pot league.

OK well see ya later. Rugby League won't miss you.