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Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:08 pm  

Massive blow for us and him

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:17 pm  

Yep, it's a blow. I hope Lumb gets a chance now

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:17 pm  

Thoughts go out to him, how unlucky.

Can we deregister from the playing squad as hasn't played a competitive game yet, and claim back the cap space and quota spot?

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:21 pm  

That wing spot is cursed.

Really feel for him he looked like he would have lit SL up.

I think we should be able to deregister him and so wed have cap and quota space available?

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:22 pm  

Yes I'm sure there is cap dispensation for this scenario.

Squad additions aside the logical thing to do is to play Hall and Handley as wingers with Connor in the centre but let's see how committed Arthur is to the Handley at centre experiment.

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:25 pm  

Gutting, whenever we seem to get some strength in depth we lose someone.

Be interesting if we use his quota spot to get a replacement and whether that replacement is a centre, winger or 2nd row.

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:29 pm  

Jeez, if we didn't have bad luck with injuries we'd have none at all.

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:45 pm  

He's on a 3 year deal, there's no point in deregistering him IMO, and even if we did, who could we sign at this late stage in preseason? Just give Lumb a chance.

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:46 pm  

Gutted for him, awful situation for a player and I hope he can make a full recovery. Even as a Wigan fan, he was a player I was very much looking forward to watching this season, think he would have been proper box office. Hopefully he will be next season.

Re: Maika Sivo - Season Ending Injury : Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:49 pm  

It's scant consolation but the RFL Operational rules here https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... 202025.pdf in Section 6.6.1 on page 287 of the pdf document seem reasonably clear that due to the injury being season ending and before more than 3 matches are played then the whole of Sivo's salary cap would be covered by the injury dispensation.

It's scant consolation but the RFL Operational rules here https://www.rugby-league.com/uploads/do ... 202025.pdf in Section 6.6.1 on page 287 of the pdf document seem reasonably clear that due to the injury being season ending and before more than 3 matches are played then the whole of Sivo's salary cap would be covered by the injury dispensation.