Championship Clubs travelled to Toronto, most arrived at least 48 to 72 hours before match day! even if the departed for home the following day, by the time they arrive home, and sleep, it's another 48 hours, not many part time players would want to miss out on the experience visiting Canada.

Discussion thats been had before, most clubs and match officials flew late thu or fri and were home mon morn. Thats at worse 3 days lost work. Feel free to talk about jet leg but perfectly feasible on toronto long weekend to stay on UK time with game KO time so jet lag minimal. Match officials did actually did 3 day option fri out Sunday back so part time match officials lost 2 days.
Toulouse could be done in a day so depending day 5 test to release technically unvax players could be freed on the following fri, its still 4 days where they could lose money from main job.
London being docked points! The club chose to fight the decision to insist we travel at wrong time, reality 24-0 a good result and it saved 50k. My personal opinion is we should not have been forced to commit to the game.
I do understand the thinking behind it tho.
But not a lot I can do as a fan to change that so, you accept it.
If its found cas and Saints breaches led to, covid transmission and cx games, personally I think yes they should be docked points, but how do you prove that

I beg to differ.

If I perceived that an unvaccinated member of my staff is putting their colleagues and our customers at risk, they wouldn't be a member of my staff for long. I'd be more than happy to defend my stance in a court of law. The stance wouldn't be a case of dismissal because on non vaccination, but on Health and Safety Grounds......but even then, you'd maybe not have to fire them if they're on a pay for play contract.....just don't pick them!

Simply put. Part time players use RL as a secondary source of income......if they don't get jabbed, they don't get picked as they are a health risk to their colleagues and other business related contacts and they don't get paid! I'd counter that Insurance companies will be loathe to offer cover to anyone who declines the vaccine.....Insurers don't have an obligation to offer cover as we found out here after earthquakes....so a part time player who doesn't want the vax can be sidelined without pay quite legally.

Let me try an explain this 1 more time NB. The NHS opened booking jabs for 25 year olds from 8/6/21, 21 year olds from 16/6/21 & 18 year olds from 18/6/21. Assuming players took up that offer straight away, which as OM says should be expected on health grounds, add 8 weeks for 2nd jab + 2 week post period the French require & you can see that Halifax would not have had time to vaccinate their players in time for their game. Batley could have & York should have. Nothing to do with early jabs.

This is not about covid but player availability. Not being double jabbed is no different from having an injury or work commitments preventing you playing. You don't travel to France.

The Batley conundrum is the RFL blindly announced back in July that their game like Halifax's was off. We know Halifax's game had to be cancelled but Batley's could have gone ahead unless a covid/close contact issue arose. If they are unable to raise a team, then they should forfeit the match not have it just waived away as cancelled as has happened.

For the record, the RFL statement said Cas & Huddersfield had failed to fulfill fixtures & broken covid protocols but only fined. Broncos failed to fulfill a fixture & were find, deducted 2 points & had the game awarded to the opposition team. Fev broke covid protocols & were fined & had 2 points deducted. It is all in the integrity of the competition apparently.

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Interesting

Yes it is & makes complete sense.

You're good with figures OM, how many SL games have been called off due to covid & how many have been rearranged? Also how many Championship games have been called off due to covid & rearranged? If you are really short of something to do, given that the RFL have likened their covid protocols to be on a par with the Premier League, how many of their games were cancelled?