Wakefield fined £10,000 for RFL Covid protocol breach

[Les Tonks Sidestep]

The fine, £6,000 of which has been suspended, relates to the Boxing Day friendly against Leeds Rhinos, and the club's failure to follow RFL Covid-19 policy ahead of the fixture.

Wakefield Trinity fined £10,000 by the RFL following a breach of operational rules | Wakefield Express

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

Missing paperwork on Christmas Day? 

 Wonder if Leeds will make a secret contribution towards the £4k fine.  I reckon they made more than Wakefield when the game went ahead. 

[LEEDSLADGONE SOUTH]

That’s the stadium upgrade gone then 

[Guest]

SPOT the difference 

Wakefield Trinity have been fined £10,000 (£6,000 suspended) 

Featherstone have been deducted two points and fined £10,000 

 

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

3 hours ago, POR said:

SPOT the difference 

Wakefield Trinity have been fined £10,000 (£6,000 suspended) 

Featherstone have been deducted two points and fined £10,000 

 

£6,000 and two points?

[Gav Wilson]

26 minutes ago, POR said:

SPOT the difference 

Wakefield Trinity have been fined £10,000 (£6,000 suspended) 

Featherstone have been deducted two points and fined £10,000 

 

The quite obvious severeties of each breach?

[Guest]

26 minutes ago, Gav Wilson said:

The quite obvious severeties of each breach?

That's true G

Trinity had reported five possible Covid cases several days prior to the match, of which three were confirmed as positives on 24 December.

the Betfred Championship club were found to have held an indoor gathering on Saturday, March 27, in a “direct breach of the national lockdown restrictions 

[Dallas Mead]

That’s 50% of the salary of a new wakey first teamer

[JonM]

5 minutes ago, POR said:

the Betfred Championship club were found to have held an indoor gathering on Saturday, March 27, in a “direct breach of the national lockdown restrictions 

Presumably Wakefield didn't lie to the police and the RFL about what happened.

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1 hour ago, POR said:

That's true G

Trinity had reported five possible Covid cases several days prior to the match, of which three were confirmed as positives on 24 December.

the Betfred Championship club were found to have held an indoor gathering on Saturday, March 27, in a “direct breach of the national lockdown restrictions 

Rovers should have gone down the Downing Street route and called it an informal work-related gathering, then they'd have probably got away with it.

[Wakefield Ram]

3 hours ago, POR said:

That's true G

Trinity had reported five possible Covid cases several days prior to the match, of which three were confirmed as positives on 24 December.

the Betfred Championship club were found to have held an indoor gathering on Saturday, March 27, in a “direct breach of the national lockdown restrictions 

They should have said it was a Bring Your Own Bottle work event