Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:40 pm  

Seems odd you get punished for being FT.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:47 pm  

Being punished for not being Northern.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:50 pm  

Once again The RFL are a complete farce! I said this immediately it was announced we would be the only club forced to travel to Tolouse, when France is in such serious position with COVID. All Championship Clubs travelled to Toronto across the Atlantic, not just a short flight as Tolouse!

The RFL is unfit to govern!

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:07 pm  

Well done David Hughes for thinking of the team and shame on the RFL

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:10 pm  

Shockingly ignorant stance for RFL to take. They should be ashamed of themselves. Doesn't help Toulouse much either.

On a lighter note, after Halifax, 24-0 might not be a bad result for us.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:29 pm  

Should have travelled and invited the RFL board along or wait until they London got b and invited to a meet and greet with the players who have just come back from a country that is struggling to contain the virus.

The RFL .where is that nice person emoji?

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:01 pm  

It makes you wonder if the championship really is "elite sport" if clubs aren't prepared to travel because of part time players having to take 4 or 5 days off work. I feel for Toulouse, who arguably should have had the super league spot vacated by Toronto.

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:22 pm  

Hockley Bronco wrote:

It makes you wonder if the championship really is "elite sport" if clubs aren't prepared to travel because of part time players having to take 4 or 5 days off work. I feel for Toulouse, who arguably should have had the super league spot vacated by Toronto.

How many days did Championship Clubs take off to travel to Toronto, how many refused?

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:25 pm  

Bernard SARRAZAIN

The President of Toulouse Olympique XIII Bernard SARRAZAIN spoke on the subject: ”It has been more than a year since we have played at home, we were impatiently awaiting this meeting, everything was in place, so we are very disappointed with this decision and its timing, just 10 days before the match, which we do not understand.

Indeed, we have done everything possible to ensure that London is in the best possible conditions, both in terms of sport and health, by financing ourselves a plane chartered especially for them with a return trip during the day. It’s a huge investment on our part. We were even going to pay for the mandatory PCR tests to enter France!

We travel around 15 times a season to England, without complaint, and there is no good reason why London cannot come once in Toulouse.

I salute the firmness of the RFL, whose decision does not open the door to this type of drift. "

Re: Toulouse : Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:42 pm  

atomic wrote:

Bernard SARRAZAIN

The President of Toulouse Olympique XIII Bernard SARRAZAIN spoke on the subject: ”It has been more than a year since we have played at home, we were impatiently awaiting this meeting.

Indeed, we have done everything possible to ensure that London is in the best possible conditions, both in terms of sport and health.

We travel around 15 times a season to England, without complaint, and there is no good reason why London cannot come once in Toulouse.

I salute the firmness of the RFL, whose decision does not open the door to this type of drift. "

IF that is the case any Championship Club even part time can travel, but it should be when the current French crisis with COVID had eased.

The RFL should never have made any agreementcurrently, in a month or two the situation in France may change.