Game against Toulouse away cancelled altogether. Neither teams to receive any punishment. Shame but could work to our favour in the long run.

Have to worry about Toulouse completing their season. Can't see things being back to normal regarding travel for a number of weeks.

I thought elite sports were given travel dispensations, is this not the case?
Toulouse have definitely sacrificed home advantage and played matches over here before now.

No free weekend till end of season now and Toulouse have to isolate for 7 days when they return to France except for training so can't play mid-week.

Yeah but surely the weekend we were due to go over there and play them is now 'free'.

Could someone remind me about what this means for points. If the Championship is on a percentage system, is not playing them at all better than losing? And what if we'd won?

Toulouse have to complete 70% or 16 games to enter play offs. I think our game will be the third cancelled so with the new variants it's very touch and go. Bookmakers have withdrawn odds on promotion as Toulouse were as low as 4/6. Interesting times.

Toulouse wont be penalised because game is abandoned so wont count in their 70% of games to be played.

Oh really? That wasn't how I understood it. That means they could finish top of the league having played only 13/14 games. That sounds totally mad. So probably true.

Confused me too but the T&A article makes it clearer "Although clubs are required to have played 70 per cent of their scheduled fixtures to be eligible for the play-offs, the RFL Board has previously ruled that Toulouse matches postponed as a result of the current quarantine regulations will not count as postponed for either Toulouse or their opponents." https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... cancelled/

Confused me too but the T&A article makes it clearer "Although clubs are required to have played 70 per cent of their scheduled fixtures to be eligible for the play-offs, the RFL Board has previously ruled that Toulouse matches postponed as a result of the current quarantine regulations will not count as postponed for either Toulouse or their opponents." https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... cancelled/

They play Dewsbury in the UK on the 13th so will have to fly back in to France after the game and then spend 7 days in Isolation except for training. Which would be until Sunday the 20th. Not possible for them to stay in UK at the moment.

Good old RFL. Only they could come up with a ruling that says you have to complete 70% of your games unless you don't.

The 70% of games bit is to qualify for the playoff series isnt it? So toulouse don't get automatic promotion by coming top of the table, they still have to beat someone in a one off game (unless RFL change goalposts again to get outcome they want).

Until covid restrictions are relaxed games in Toulouse against part time clubs that are cancelled don’t count towards both clubs’ total games. So it doesn’t affect them or us in that respect.

Provided that’s the only game called off we’ll end the season on 100% of games completed. It just makes every other game slightly more influential on our win percentage but not significantly.

It will for Toulouse though if they lose a lot more games.

probably guarantees them 1st place at end of regular season and easiest draw at start of playoffs. Plus the less games they have to play the less chance their is of them picking up injuries so stronger squad available for playoff games.

its a game which would probably have seen our win percentage drop so slight benefit to us not playing it I guess.

also ... i know covid ruined last season but our last away game in toulouse was a victory against the odds

its a bit of one and half of the other ... toulouse though, this season, look unstoppable.

I know that we're the 'Famous Bradford Bulls' and and all the rest, but but we, in the Championship, don't count as "elite". In rugby terms it's SL and that's it.

I was referring to Toulouse. They are full time and qualify as elite sports. As do the London Broncos, which is why they were penalised for not playing their away fixture.

Ah, touché, I didn't realise that.