"I am annoyed about it. It is ludicrous that the situation should be allowed to happen.
"If we drop points against Stockport, we may look back and think we wouldn't have dropped them if Vaughan and Tierney had been there.
"A whole year's work could go up in smoke, so I am very annoyed, but I have to cope. This is why I got Stefan Oakes. I knew he would at least play in this game because we would be missing left-sided players."
However with Cardiff having a load of games being called off due to their Welsh players being in the international frame he admits them packing in the rest of their games will see them slip slightly...
"They will be packing them in now, That's why I would have been reluctant to call our game off, although I still would have done."
It was a pile up of fixtures that saw us knacker ourselves last season and saw us drop down the table like no one else. So while they may seem like a set of "awaiting 3 points" to the Welsh, its more of a possible advantage to us.
THE REDS ARE GOING UP