Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:43 pm  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

I I can see it could benefit the away team by not playing in Toulouse, given that the French team are one of the better ones in their league.

Whoa steady, they are far more an Anglo-Aussie team.........Try the French Elite league, you will find real French teams there....

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:22 am  

atomic wrote:

They could potentially play at a neutral ground in the UK. They are full time and that’s an option.

They could but they have to be fitted in somewhere. Say half of their remaining home games are postponed before travel restrictions are lifted that’s six games to fit in somewhere. Or they lose all of them and plan to re-arrange over here at a neutral venue that’s 10 games to re-arrange.

It would have been better nominating a neutral venue and playing there until travel restrictions are lifted.

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:46 am  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

They could but they have to be fitted in somewhere. Say half of their remaining home games are postponed before travel restrictions are lifted that’s six games to fit in somewhere. Or they lose all of them and plan to re-arrange over here at a neutral venue that’s 10 games to re-arrange.

It would have been better nominating a neutral venue and playing there until travel restrictions are lifted.

If they win all (or most) of the games that they actually play, plus the odd 24 - 0 walkover, they wont need to play any postponed fixtures.
Also, there are only a couple of free weekends for them to fit postponed games in, therefore, it looks very unlikely that they will complete their full set of fixtures, which is the reason behind the "win percentage" to decide the league standings.

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:08 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

If they win all (or most) of the games that they actually play, plus the odd 24 - 0 walkover, they wont need to play any postponed fixtures.
Also, there are only a couple of free weekends for them to fit postponed games in, therefore, it looks very unlikely that they will complete their full set of fixtures, which is the reason behind the "win percentage" to decide the league standings.

They will need to re-arrange if they haven't managed 16 matches in total or they won't qualify for the play offs - that's only four more postponed home matches after the two so far. They can't pick and choose which ones to re-arrange either and as you say there are only a couple of free weekends as the season can't run over because of the world cup.

If all their remaining home games went and they won every other match (they won't) they would need to re-arrange at least 4 home matches or they won't be in the play offs.

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:09 pm  

It has been said on 'The Full 80 Minutes' that John Kear (Bradford) & Mick Hogan (Newcastle) have stated their intent not to travel to France at this time !!!

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:10 pm  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

It has been said on 'The Full 80 Minutes' that John Kear (Bradford) & Mick Hogan (Newcastle) have stated their intent not to travel to France at this time !!!

I imagine that Newcastle are "big spenders", do Bradford fall into the same category ?

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:14 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

I imagine that Newcastle are "big spenders", do Bradford fall into the same category ?

Not sure what “big spenders” means but the only full time clubs in the championship are Toulouse and London.

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:17 pm  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

They could but they have to be fitted in somewhere. Say half of their remaining home games are postponed before travel restrictions are lifted that’s six games to fit in somewhere. Or they lose all of them and plan to re-arrange over here at a neutral venue that’s 10 games to re-arrange.

It would have been better nominating a neutral venue and playing there until travel restrictions are lifted.

They are abiding by the current rules of the RFL. They could end up playing 3 games a week at a neutral ground. That’s been done before with CC back log of fixtures.

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:21 pm  

atomic wrote:

They are abiding by the current rules of the RFL. They could end up playing 3 games a week at a neutral ground. That’s been done before with CC back log of fixtures.

Yeah I know they are but how do you fit all that in?

I genuinely hope it doesn’t come to that but I can’t see anything other than Toulouse forfeiting a play off place or completing enough games but missing out on the top two on points percentage owing to playing more games away than at home. Either way it’s not a level playing field.

Re: Broncos refuse to go to Toulouse : Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:24 pm  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

Yeah I know they are but how do you fit all that in?

I genuinely hope it doesn’t come to that but I can’t see anything other than Toulouse forfeiting a play off place or completing enough games but missing out on the top two on points percentage owing to playing more games away than at home. Either way it’s not a level playing field.

They will play 3 games a week. Once the rescheduling can no further be added to.