Lee Radford: Fine players, don't ban them unless it is really bad

Castleford coach Lee Radford has come up with an thought to proceed as many players on the field equally possible to help clubs bargain with mounting injury lists.

There is an injury crisis beyond Super League at the moment, with the likes of Leeds, Salford, Castleford, Hull KR and Catalans being forced to field decimated squads in recent weeks.

Radford has revealed that Castleford might non fifty-fifty have 17 players fit and bachelor to face Catalans on Friday night.

And there has been an increasing number of suspensions this season. Radford believes there would exist less suspensions if the Rugby Football League started fining players rather than banning them, unless it was a actually serious incident. His idea process behind that was then clubs could field their strongest possible side, despite the ever-growing amount of injuries.

"I don't retrieve nosotros want to take away the brutality of the sport," Radford said. "That'southward what puts bums on seats. That's what young kids with plenty of assailment want to become out of their arrangement when they option up a rugby ball.

"There's been that many changes to the HIA for example, that's 11 days now which is almost 2 games, so you're almost missing two games now rather than one. That has a knock on issue of your pick and how many players you've got available to you.

"There'south another viii suspensions (in Super League) this week… Fine them but keep them on the field. I promise you if you start striking players in their pockets, they will commencement making adjustments to their game.

"Rather than taking eight of your best players out of the firing line for this weekend, unless it'south a really bad incident and it is but a caput loftier or a clumsy arm, just fine them £500 and they'll make adjustments, I promise you."

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Why is there an injury crisis in Super League? Lee Radford explains

There seems to be more than injuries than e'er before in Super League right at present, and Radford believes that is down to the speed of today's game.

"I think the dominion changes have introduced more time in play," Radford explained. "Like your cease clock on a scrum and a drop-out. It gets the ball in play quicker and gives you less residuum.

"Also with the six-once more. There's no kick for impact anymore and thirty seconds to get your breath back. Your argument confronting that is players might have been getting too large and causing injuries. If they are getting fatigued and so you won't be able to keep their strength as high as that but conspicuously it is going the other way.

"I've never seen a season like it. I've seen clubs have bad injury scenarios during a season, but I've never seen so many.

"When you've got clubs that can't name squads of 21 in that location has got to be some red flags there. If you lot lookout Saints in Round One against Catalans and look at the intensity of that game and the brawl in play and the ferociousness of that weekend; and then you look at the St Helens that played us on Sunday, they look like chalk and cheese. It was a Channel iv game on Sunday and we're trying to sell our product. Information technology was very much a diluted version of what it is."

Castleford have five games of the season remaining as the race for a spot in the Super League play-offs heats up. The Tigers face Catalans, Huddersfield, Warrington, Salford and Leeds in their remaining games of the regular campaign.

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