Jonathan Ford has left Toulouse . A real dagger for them

Saying gay people are going to hell doesn’t (yet) get you banned from going to a country where you might be playing 11% of your season. If you already have a few injuries or players having to isolate, it only takes a couple of extra team members being unavailable for you to be down to the bare bones, and clubs will figure out they just aren’t worth the risks (unlike the druggies and the wife beaters who will continue to find somewhere to land because they always have done and always will).

Hopefully France will see sense and remove it's daft rules before too long. They have some ridiculous vaccine rules and still have restrictions and yet they are removing them despite topping 500,000 cases yesterday. Having a rule that says professional sportsmen have to be vaccinated to play in France whilst they could go on holiday there while their team plays is just really stupid.

Not much of a holiday with the first ten days being spent in quarantine. That's assuming the French could be persuaded that a holiday qualifies as essential travel.="Saddened!Having a rule that says professional sportsmen have to be vaccinated to play in France whilst they could go on holiday there while their team plays is just really stupid.'"

They brought the rules in to try to prevent the situation that happened in Australia with regards to Djokovic happening at the French open

How dare the French defend their borders in any way they see fit...white flag waving surrender monkeys

Defend their borders

I can see you took your drama tablets this morning.

That's the most bat**** dumb thing I think i've seen all week.

Huddersfield are 83% vaccinated. If that's first team players only that means 6 players will be unavailable for their first game of the season which happens to be away against Toulouse. A not significant number especially if they are key players. They also happen to have two further away games in France this season in June /July a few extra injuries and the choice of those players could have a very significant impact on the season.

Does make you wonder how many clubs will be eyeing taking the defeat. If you throw in a few injuries and more out due to the concussion protocols and it becomes obvious a defeat is on the cards, you can save the travel cost by staying at home and probably significantly improve your chances of winning the following week.

I can't see Huddersfield being the lowest in terms of % jabbed either. I'd imagine Cas in particular will have a few out.

Got told as of yesterday that Huddersfield had 10 players unvaccinated as of 2 weeks ago
So either that's changed, or it does only cover 1st team players and the 10 figure is extended to include younger squad members?