Quote ="Lord Tony Smith"Stop testing healthy professional athletes? Just a suggestion.'"
Or how about continue the testing and if a player is positive they don’t play and those that are negative do play, regardless of any contact.
Is the testing the main problem here? Surely it’s the rules that are being adopted and then open to abuse from club to club? Quite simply it’s too easy for a club who have a couple positive case amongst key men, a few others banned or injured, to then say we can’t play because we’ve also got half a dozen close contacts too. Who stipulates who is and isn’t a close contact? It won’t be an independent body that’s for sure.
During the Euros Billy Gilmour tested positive, yet I’m pretty certain none of his team mates had to self isolate. Are we saying he didn’t have close contact with any of them?
Of course though it was in Scotland’s best interests to play their games, fulfil their fixtures and utilise their whole squad, in Super League that’s just not the case, especially when certain clubs are better off not playing, rather than actually playing and getting beat.
