AFAIK the 16 game thing doesn't apply when a team has a game cancelled as opposed to postponed. Every games that gets cancelled reduces the number of games need to qualify y one. So we only need to complete 15 games to qualify as our game v toulouse was cancelled. Toulouse are biggest beneficiaries of this as most of there games have been cancelled due to travel restrictions, whereas most of games involving two uk teams affected by covid have been postponed.

Unsurprisingly Sheffield not wanting to play. https://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/article ... eld-update

Unsurprisingly Sheffield not wanting to play. https://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/article ... eld-update

Ashton doesn't want a midweek game as that would mean his squad would potentially have 3 games in a week. It's understandable that he is against this idea as a part time team. Unless this game is tagged on at the end of the year, I can't see where we are going to squeeze it in as we don't have any free weekends between now and the end of the season.

Time for the RFL to step in and make a decision. If they refuse to play midweek then give us the 24-0 win.

I'm sure part time teams have played midweek games before. IIRC we played a cup game midweek season before last. It's not fair on season ticket holders who have paid for this game. Seems like a bit of a soft option for Aston as they have nothing to gain from this game as they are mid table. Grow a pair Eagles.

That would require actual leadership. At the moment it's optional for the clubs to decide whether they want to rearrange or not. Farce.

Agree with the above comment. Player welfare didn't come in to it when the Eagles played mid-week games to lift the 1895 cup. It's basically more beneficial for the Eagles to not play these games so why would they.

a quick gander at the run in ... fax do appear to have the hardest so 3rd is still not beyond us (without the eagles rearranged game). yeah we've still got toulouse at home but our other games are winnable, fax still have tricky away games and one against fev

Somebody once told me that there is quite a bit of animosity from Aston to Kear over the Shuddersfield merger (takeover).

Ah. Well that makes two people in the history of the world to fall out with JK. Aston and Chisholm. If the rules permit sides to dodge rearranged fixtures then there's nothing we can do. I personally think that's a daft state of affairs but pointless debating it if Sheffield can swerve us under the rules.

Sheffield didn’t want to play York or Bradford.
But they chose to play Oldham who can’t buy a win.

It seems like some choosing their games and based on comments by numerous clubs maybe bending rules to get games called off.

Every league position this year attracts higher funding for the following year.

The sport needed some strong leadership on Covid and yet they’ve let far too many clubs get away with cancelling fixtures like Sheffield.

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It was done forever and a day in the old days, every Easter and Xmas being the obvious examples.

It isn't 'good practice' though and with player protection in mind the modern thinking is to not do it - it isn't a good look to be only thinking of your own circumstances though, whether it's us or them.