Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 9:32 am  

It's no surprise really, the Aussie states have been fully locking down despite only a handful of cases, so the idea of sending dozens of unvaccinated people to a country with a potentially 100k daily cases per day seems terrifying.

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 9:55 am  

Jack Burton wrote:

It's no surprise really, the Aussie states have been fully locking down despite only a handful of cases, so the idea of sending dozens of unvaccinated people to a country with a potentially 100k daily cases per day seems terrifying.

Yet they're sending the RU team over and how many to the olympics?

Why not just vaccinate the players?

This has nothing to do with player welfare.

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 10:26 am  

This is not a shock however very shabby the way it has come out. Clearly there are leadership issues within the RFL to get to this point and it does not reflect well for the wider game.Hopefully things settle down covid wise and actually next season if everywhere is opened up in the UK it may be an attractive place to play for players who have an urge to travel and have been unable to do so for a couple of years

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:07 am  

christopher wrote:

Yet they're sending the RU team over and how many to the olympics?

Why not just vaccinate the players?

This has nothing to do with player welfare.

I don't disagree.

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:34 am  

I hope the RLWC still goes ahead just to show the Australian RL they dont own the game . They might think they're sitting preggy as big fish in there sporting backwater but they dont seem aware that they cant diss association football like they do Aussie rules and RU . I still think they are insular backwoodsmen country cousins. And I refuse to refer to them as The NRL .

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:14 pm  

I would go ahead with it without NZ/Australia.
Yes it devalues the tournament but why should all the other countries miss out?
Sod em at least it gives England their best chance of winning it

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:50 pm  

chapylad wrote:

I would go ahead with it without NZ/Australia.
Yes it devalues the tournament but why should all the other countries miss out?
Sod em at least it gives England their best chance of winning it

Probably end up losing in the final to PNG

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:10 pm  

Are Tonga still coming?

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 3:08 pm  

christopher wrote:

Why not just vaccinate the players?

Good point.Unfortunatley the party in power in Aus have botched the vaccine rollout.Personally I think they should go ahead with the tournament. Regardless.If Aus or NZ don't want to take part so be it.

Re: World Cup - Major Doubt : Thu Jul 22, 2021 3:35 pm  

I’ve been coming round to that way of thinking too. Run the tournament, use it to showcase the women’s game and the wheelchair game etc. We may need to reach out to bring some new nations in I don’t know.

This is a mess with the government funding which has been acquired etc.