There is no doubt omicron has had an impact and is slightly more infectious than delta, but the Premier League situation is predominantly due to politics within football. The players are spoiled rotten and feel left out over lockdowns. They wanted their furlough opportunity like the rest of us and they feel like they've been overworked as a result. A lot of the top managers do not like the number of games we play in the PL and particularly the Christmas/NY schedule. They have done nothing but moan about it for weeks and are always keen to point out that the players are exhausted and that there is an enormous welfare issue going on. The players hear this and believe it. They all conveniently ignore the fact they have 25-30 man squads and a vast assortment of academy players and could rotate their squads if player welfare was a genuine concern. But none of them ever do.

So clubs have been cancelling games once they've had 2 or 3 covid positives. The PL is arguably weaker than the RFL and will bow to any pressure from the big clubs particularly. They changed the rule so clubs can now include 'covid and injured' players, so they will always get to the limit if they want to.

Super League will have the same problem. You can bet which clubs it'll be too. It wouldn't surprise me if come August, Cas, Hull KR and Leeds are 4+ games behind everyone else.

There's a fair bit of conjecture there Mr Saddened.
Although I agree that there is a power struggle within the Premier League in particular, having fixtures postponed will only exacerbate the issues surrounding fixture backlog.
They may allow some breathing space in the short term but, this will come back and bite them at the business end of the season and I really cant see them doing as RL did and suddenly moving to win %.
Tbh, not being a huge fan of the round ball game I dont know what is in place to allow for postponements and rearranging fixtures.
If injured players can count alongside covid cases, they could end up in a right mess, especially if clubs abuse the situation.

Hull KR not being able to fulfill the fixture list to that extentwas largely down to 3 successive opposition in May/June I think it was pulling out. We hadn't played a game for about 6 weeks at one point, before succumbing to covid problems ourselves. We also played an away fixture at Catalans which in the end didn't have to be played, so wheres the angst against Rovers come from here? Or did you just look at last year's table and assume?!! Are you forgetting your beloved Saints conveniently pulled out the fixture a week after the Challenge Cup?
Cas I get as your point but I don't particularly get why you've highlighted Leeds either.

Clubs have squads of 30 players so whats the problem? Close contacts dont have to isolate anymore so as long as you have 17 players out of 30 who dont have Covid, no reason to postpone.

The 48-0 idea is a great one and will stop those clubs from last season who had 2 positive tests (their 2 best players) looking for a postponement.

Quote: ChampagneSuperRovers "Hull KR not being able to fulfill the fixture list to that extentwas largely down to 3 successive opposition in May/June I think it was pulling out. We hadn't played a game for about 6 weeks at one point, before succumbing to covid problems ourselves. We also played an away fixture at Catalans which in the end didn't have to be played, so wheres the angst against Rovers come from here? Or did you just look at last year's table and assume?!! Are you forgetting your beloved Saints conveniently pulled out the fixture a week after the Challenge Cup? Cas I get as your point but I don't particularly get why you've highlighted Leeds either.'" nope was KR https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... t-positive cas played 3 more games than saints and 2 less than Leeds so cant see where Saddeneds' point against those teams come from!

Quote: ChampagneSuperRovers "Hull KR not being able to fulfill the fixture list to that extentwas largely down to 3 successive opposition in May/June I think it was pulling out. We hadn't played a game for about 6 weeks at one point, before succumbing to covid problems ourselves. We also played an away fixture at Catalans which in the end didn't have to be played, so wheres the angst against Rovers come from here? Or did you just look at last year's table and assume?!! Are you forgetting your beloved Saints conveniently pulled out the fixture a week after the Challenge Cup? Cas I get as your point but I don't particularly get why you've highlighted Leeds either.'" nope was KR https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... t-positive cas played 3 more games than saints and 2 less than Leeds so cant see where Saddeneds' point against those teams come from!

I think there was only two clubs who didn’t call off games from their end last year.

I think Leigh actually went a month without a game due to other clubs systematically using what was in force.

They do if they're not vaccinated.