Re: Catalans Away : Thu Aug 12, 2021 3:24 pm
Rugby Raider wrote:
I disagree.
I wouldn’t want Hull ever to accept a walkover penalty as an alternative to playing. It completely goes against the spirit of the game. Otherwise, we would could have cherry picked games for years. I’m sure some of those horror results at home to Warrington would read better as a 0-24 defeat, however you’d just get some teams playing 20 games per season and taking a breather and a 24-0 default defeat to St Helens etc.
If we complain about the flight cost, then we incur that every season. What do we do, kick Cats out of the League because they are too expensive to play?
I’m glad we are playing. The result will be what it is. The competition gets to fulfill one more round; Cats get gate revenue; we clear our suspensions; Taylor gets some match fitness; and some of our youngsters get a debut.
If we start being selective, the game’s dead.
I wouldn’t want Hull ever to accept a walkover penalty as an alternative to playing. It completely goes against the spirit of the game. Otherwise, we would could have cherry picked games for years. I’m sure some of those horror results at home to Warrington would read better as a 0-24 defeat, however you’d just get some teams playing 20 games per season and taking a breather and a 24-0 default defeat to St Helens etc.
If we complain about the flight cost, then we incur that every season. What do we do, kick Cats out of the League because they are too expensive to play?
I’m glad we are playing. The result will be what it is. The competition gets to fulfill one more round; Cats get gate revenue; we clear our suspensions; Taylor gets some match fitness; and some of our youngsters get a debut.
If we start being selective, the game’s dead.
I do understand the alternative argument but there is a heat wave at the moment in Southern Europe with daytime temperatures above 36 degrees and its likely we will be kicking off in a 30 degree temperature and high humidity.This is hardly going to help Taylor get any match fitness probably do 15 /20 mins in total.
The only important suspension cleared would be Savelio
I am not complaining about the flight cost just dont understand why if the club are so short of money they would want to incurr the cost when its not neccessary.They may say that we want to give players game time before the Derby but half the players will not be included in the team for the Derby.
Another real concern for me in this heat will be iIndiscipline.We have seen several times now when we fall behind our discipline goes to pot .
Scenario could be we end up getting Savelio back but losing a couple of players to match bans for infringements due to fatigue and losing ones head as the scoreline mounts up.
That would make the trip really worthwhile
