Just been announced Catalan v wigan tomorrow night cancelled due to corona. ??????
Just been announced Catalan v wigan tomorrow night cancelled due to corona. ??????
Just had an email from Catalans confirming - due to Covid in the Wigan squad.
Off course that fact it was away and they didn’t fancy another loss on their record has nothing to with this . As so the table manipulation begins.
Kew have all just said this. Fiddling in hell, expected something like it.
Here you go - courtesy of my French & help from Google translate...
Communiqué of the Catalan Dragons
The Super League match between Wigan and the Dragons, scheduled for Thursday, October 15 at Halliwell Jones Stadium, has been postponed.
The move follows a significant number of positive Covid-19 cases in the Warriors' workforce, which added to the 3 cases reported last week.
Wigan’s training scheduled for today has been canceled and squad and staff will be re-tested on Thursday.
To date, there is no time slot available in the calendar for the postponement of this meeting.
In total, out of the 591 tests passed within the 11 Super League clubs, 584 were negative and 7 positive spread over 4 clubs.
Catalan are really going to struggle to fulfil their fixtures now. They’ve played only 12.
As I was reading I was just thinking to myself "I bet they wouldn't pull the game if they were in the cup final", which made me think we're not out the woods yet, it could still happen to us.
Imagine getting to the GF and then getting a load of positive tests that week and half the team has to isolate. That'd be a truly awful way for anyone to end what is already a crappy season!
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Originally Posted by Despondent Dave
Wonder if our kick off time will change, so that Phil Clarke can get home early.
So all these players will have to isolate for 14 days ,so no matches for Wigan for 14 days. Funny after resting practically a full team against saints they found a team to play,, why can’t they do this against cats. Ho hang on. !!!!!!!!!
Wigan. The perennial cheats. Bankruptcy, manipulation of rules and thugby all in the masterplan.
And we all thought that Wire would be the ones to manipulate the % win system
First of all I hope all those who have tested positive are ok (one of them is a friend of mine)
The reason that they can't play tomorrow is that the entire squad have had to be retested and the results won't be known until Friday, hence why they are hoping to get the game played on Sunday.
Wasps have just had 7 positive tests across players and staff ahead of the premiership rugby final next weekend. Scrambling now to arrange further testing to work out next steps as further positive tests could mean they forfeit the final, at the very least training has been cancelled for the week so that will affect their preparation. We’re seeing footballers testing positive on international duty and the potential of their teammates having to isolate on returning to their clubs. It’s not ideal but it’s something sport is just going to have to deal with as and when it happens for the foreseeable future.
Forwards win games. The backs decide by how much.
Genuine question then, are you advocating that if a club has 17 players clear & fit to play then they either play or forfeit? Might be impossible to police especially the injuries bit but I don't know the intricacies of the rules surrounding squad numbers or replacements so I'm personally struggling to see how this would work not being familiar with your example.
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