It was Chelsea v Arsenal, but it is a valid point.

Final should be on a neutral venue.

Headingley for example has held some cracking championship/ national league finals days over the year. When they combined it with the league 1 final too. A proper event.

No it isn’t a valid point, they played in an international competition and new there would be foreign travel.

So did Featherstone. They also could have avoided any foreign travel by finishing 1st.

No-ones denying it’s not tough on Fev. But I don’t quite see what everyone saying it’s massively unfair on them wants to happen?

I didn’t see massive furore at the start of the season when the playoff structure was announced. Most people thought it rightly gave league position a good advantage. It’s unfortunate for Fev they’ve been given the worst possible outcome but all clubs knew this could be a possibility. As long as the travel arrangements have been arranged well then that’s just how it is.

If clubs want to prove they’re good and strong enough for SL then they can’t whinge when they have to play in an international and full time competition. Too many Championship clubs want the benefits of playing in a full time comp but don’t want to pay their players enough to be full time.
Plenty of SL clubs would whinge just as much as well by the way.

Sorry! Got the CL and EL finals mixed up!

I agree it should be at a neutral venue. A bit tough on Toronto or Toulouse but then Catalans and Toronto (if they get into SL) would have to play the Cup Final and Grand Final over here.

You can still give home advantage for the playoff semi finals.

This is why the bulls decided not to make the play offs this year.... honest.

Joking aside, the system was announced, and actually stuck to, at the start of the season. Everyone knew the score. Toronto have bought/earned the right to have home advantage by finishing top. Yes it’s going to be very tough for the fev players and fans but surely it would be just as unfair on the Toronto players and fans if it was the other way around and they had to travel to the UK. Even more unfair having finished top and earned home advantage.

If they switched it to a neutral stadium for the start of next season fair enough.

Which was what I was trying to say - nothing more, nothing less. Thanks!

Go on Fev!!!!

Genuine question as I don’t know - how many of this Fev team playing against Toulouse are actually Fev players and how many are dual reg/loans?

Less than the total you are allowed under the rules.....

Which tells me the square root of **** all. Typical VT these days, genuine questions aren’t allowed without someone trying to be smart.

If it were a genuine question you could have found the answer through a bit of easy googling rather than an obvious DR dig.

No dig at all, I asked here to save me having to spend time trying to find out thinking that someone could give a quick answer. Obviously not.

Superb from fev