This is going to be a cashflow issue more than balancing the books. I do wonder to what extent the central funding payments could be given in advance to those strugging clubs, or maybe even the RFL step in and get some short term loans set up? Is there anything even left in the RFL's coffers?

Economy over people; welcome to the UK post 1979.

You don't seem to grasp the governments money is actually our money...

No. It’s actually the governments. It’s in their bank account and everything.

Looking like mass gatherings will be banned by next week. (Cue jokes about Huddersfield being OK)
So will SL be suspended or will we have games behind closed doors?

Behind closed doors and all games on Sky... I’m hearing.

I’m well aware... did you bother to take any notice of the budget?

Not at the moment, it's just on tick.
They have taken out the loans but, expect that we will pay it back.

There must be a fair assumption that all none of the players and staff will be affected, which seems unlikely.

If gatherings of more than 1000 are to be stopped, could tickets be allocated among season ticket holders and at least have some fans at the games, or maybe sold to the highest bidders ?
I know that this would be extremely contentious but, must be better than playing in front of zero fans ?

It’s about to made worse is rugby league fixtures with the Canadian government saying anyone entering the country from abroad between April and July must be in quarantine for 14 days. How do they fulfil their fixtures in that time?!Maybe they’ll stay in the UK.

I’m seriously concerned for the Leeds rhinos players. They have had to cancel the game because one of their players is suspected of having corona virus- he was sent home from training on Tuesday night with antibiotics according to Sinfield.
Their club doctor must be a complete quack.
Does anyone smell something?

Well it’s funny now that we’re only the sport (or one of) going ahead (for now), Sky are scrambling to show more matches. Even Kammy has joined.

Apart from the player wasn’t sent home with CV19 symptoms last tuesday, just what is your conspiracy theory?

The amount of people with no qualifications on subjects that think they no better than experts these days is ridiculous

Where have you seen that? Can’t find the reference anywhere. All I can see is a mention that cruise ships won’t be allowed to dock until 1 July.

Are you new on here?

Ha, was more a general comment rather than rlfans specifically

I think jools is making a point about giving antibiotics to somebody with a suspected viral infection. Most likely Sinfield just misspoke or misunderstood.

Be interesting to see if sky were willing to pay say 100k to home clubs to show a match live and play behind closed doors just so they have some live sport content to show and clubs have some revenue to tide them over nobody really loses out then clubs wont go bust and it will increase viewing figures of our game as no othet alternative to sport or betting fans

The PL, absolutely. Rugby? Probably not.

I smell some petty-minded point-scoring, jowls. I was treated for viral pneumonia some years ago and was given antibiotics to protect against the bacterial complications that frequently follow. Then again, my specialist probably wasn't blessed with your knowledge. Thankfully.

With various towns in Catalonia now being quarantined ( although not Perpignan or Barcelona), the decision made by Leeds not to travel seems to be a wise one.
However, if the player with symptoms tests positive and has been training with the rest of the squad, is there not a risk that they may all need to self isolate at some point ?

Or seeing as though the player has now tested negative for CV, maybe the club doctors actually knew what the best advice was having looked at the ayer and the symptoms he was showing on Tuesday.

Maybe Sinfield did use the wrong terminology but I think Jools was looking for some kind of dodgy angle that really wasn’t there.

He’s tested negative

The fact that betting firms will suffer during this period is one huge positive.