Absolutely staggering. As much as I and several others have been bagging the club lately, this is on a different level. A truly mind boggling decision by the RFL.

I wonder if the RFL asked the London players how they felt about traveling to Toulouse for this game.
I would guess not!

Interesting Super League players taking to social media, saying how wrong the decision is!

Anyone seen Northernbloke?

I expect he has buried his head in the sand.

Well, points for no game, well if they miss out on promotion, I'll raise a glass and smirk!

How very un-french. They were so welcoming before...well at least twice....maybe it's because we're not German?.

If the club was doing this on safety grounds I'd be backing them 100% but they're not. Nowhere in the statement does it say this is because travelling to France is unsafe. They've stamped their feet, screamed "it's not fair", and refused to play a game. The RFL have no option but to award Toulouse the points. SL should have done the same when Leeds and St Helens refused to travel to Catalans last year, but Elstone was too weak to take on two of the biggest clubs in the game.

The much bigger question is what happens when Toulouse win all their away games but are denied promotion because no-one travelled to France and they were unable to meet the 70% threshold. This has got disaster written all over it.

If the Broncos game is not counted as a game & if nobody else goes (not counted as games), would they just need to complete 70% of their away games to meet that particular criteria?

God knows. But I think we can safely assume that if the situation does arise then the RFLs final decision will, as always, benefit the northern clubs over anyone else.

I would of thought it was pretty obvious that one of the reasons (probably the main reason) for the club not going to France is the Covid infection rate. How can any organisation know 6 weeks before traveling what the situation is going to be with Covid infection rates. The government is still not confirming if international travel will start on the 17th May which is just over 5 weeks away.