Whos to say a hull player picked it up at Tesco when he was doing his weekly shop and unwittingly spread it?

Think its a bit harsh to get the pick forks out just yet

How do we know it started from a Hull player? The only way that can be guaranteed for sure is if Salford tests come back negative, which shows that Hull players were mingling with non-players socially on Sunday night after the game and before the went to the training ground on the Monday.

Hull has one of the lowest infection rates in the UK. Salford are based in one of the largest areas for infection in the UK with local lockdowns in place close to them. Maybe we have detected it because our testing was Monday and Salford's was Tuesday? Perhaps it was Ryan Lannon who had it first, and passed it when he gave Josh Griffin a facial across his nose and mouth during the match, and Griffin gave it o Jordan Johnstone and Josh Bowden on Sunday night?

All hypothetical's, and what if's. End of the day, we don't know where it came from, who had it first and the potential effect it can have on the season and the sport. All I know is that I wish the players involved a speedy recovery and they get back fit soon

Good men and women have died, sometimes struggling and dying in pain and solitude due to this plague from Asia, god knows I don’t want to play the forum police, but some posters need to evaluate their contributions on this serious matter.

According to Jenna Brooks on Twitter, all Salford players' tests came back negative. However, 11 of the players now need to self isolate for 14 days after coming into contact with the infected Hull players. As previously said, we don't know where/how the Hull players have caught the virus, it could easily have been brought home by a player's wife then transmitted at training so stupid and naive put the blame on the Hull players directly.

If the procedures under which SL has restarted allow players (and other members of their households, to go out shopping, and seemingly to pubs judging by posts on SM, then they really aren't fit for purpose.

Are players Wives, Girlfriends, Boyfriends etc. not permitted to go to work either? Our players don't earn enough for their partner not to work, or get a live in Nanny etc for childcare. There is only so much they can do to protect themselves. Daily testing needed to be a priority

Adam Pearson has just been on the radio. He said that initially, they think that it has come from a player's young newborn baby, who had to be admitted to hospital. The player had some rehab on an injury on Saturday which looks like it passed to a physio, and gone from there.

I think the RFL/Superleague need to take a tougher stance on what is expected of the players. I’ve just read a young Cricketer from Kent has been stood down for a game and told to isolate after taking a selfie with a fan, after he’d just scored 200+ runs in an innings. The kid is 19, had just put in the performance of his life and in the elation forgets himself and takes a picture with a fan and that’s how tough the sport will be on them. You compare that to us and it’s laughable really. Players out on the lash, players at football clubs fans mass gatherings to celebrate trophy wins/promotions and so on. The players have been great in taking pay cuts across the board but as a collective I think this new players Union really needs to get them all in zoom meetings and the like and discuss just how serious this situation could be if they don’t make more sacrifices.

If that is the case then seems inevitable some Salford players will develop it also?
If Pearsons theory is correct then at least it's not been introduced from a players daft antics like some speculated. The facts will come out either way.

The Salford tests came back negative, but 11 players have to self isolate for 14 days

Then SL shouldn't have restarted.

End the season. Award sintellins the grand final and CC because they'd probably win it anyway. Reintroduce relegation and relegate Catalans. Re-admit toronto with severe restrictions. 75% of all income needs to be divvied up amongst the rest of the super league and they start each season -10 points. Make it 11 a side, with 27 minute halfs.

I mean, the season is already a total farce isn't it?

Can Castleford play Catalan (or Hull KR) this week to reduce fixture congestion further down the line?

This will happen again you would think, and if a team is going to miss two weeks of fixtures there will be an incredible backlog unless we can apply some flexibility to scheduling.

That would be a sensible move but we are talking about the rfl

All Salford players and staff are now in quarantine. Sensible move by the club.

Under the guidelines, information that could identify anyone testing positive shouldn't be released. Pearson has clearly broken that confidentiality and could be in hot water.

Quote ="Alffi_7"Can Castleford play Catalan (or Hull KR) this week to reduce fixture congestion further down the line? This will happen again you would think, and if a team is going to miss two weeks of fixtures there will be an incredible backlog unless we can apply some flexibility to scheduling.'" I see they acted on my idea fast... https://www.totalrl.com/super-league-in ... -fixtures/

Quote ="Alffi_7"Can Castleford play Catalan (or Hull KR) this week to reduce fixture congestion further down the line? This will happen again you would think, and if a team is going to miss two weeks of fixtures there will be an incredible backlog unless we can apply some flexibility to scheduling.'" I see they acted on my idea fast... https://www.totalrl.com/super-league-in ... -fixtures/

You may be correct but think him making the statement promptly shouldn't be punished and can't see it troubling any prosecution tbh.
He's given his opinion with the facts we dont have access to yet so il take his word.
The truth will be found either way

Unless he had permission from the player (and his partner) he's broken pretty strict rules on the confidentiality of medical information covered by not only the sport's protocols but privacy laws. I suspect he was trying to prove his players hadn't been behaving irresponsibly without stopping to think about the consequences of doing so.

Surely people need to know who has tested positive in case anybody has been near to them? If I'd been in a restaurant with any Hull player over the weekend then I'd like to know if any of them were the ones who had tested positive as I would then need to isolate and get tested myself.

That’s not how track and trace works, the establishment should contact you stating you may have been in contact and should be tested and isolate for 10 days, they cannot identify to you who was the person who has tested positive to a 3rd party

Salford need not worry too much, we hardly put a hand on them!

Seriously, just cancel the season, no relegation so no point risking lives and livelihoods.

Not risking livelihoods by ending the season now? Who's going to pay the players for the rest of the year if they don't play another game? Livelihoods will be under a bigger threat at that point wouldn't they?

So it would be better to spread the virus? another 45,000+ dead? for some rugby?

It is quite clear that sports can go ahead whilst Covid is around, if people can drive buses and work in shops, we just need to be dynamic.

We can make it work, just like all sports can.