It makes you wonder if the championship really is "elite sport" if clubs aren't prepared to travel because of part time players having to take 4 or 5 days off work. I feel for Toulouse, who arguably should have had the super league spot vacated by Toronto.

How many days did Championship Clubs take off to travel to Toronto, how many refused?

Bernard SARRAZAIN

The President of Toulouse Olympique XIII Bernard SARRAZAIN spoke on the subject: ”It has been more than a year since we have played at home, we were impatiently awaiting this meeting, everything was in place, so we are very disappointed with this decision and its timing, just 10 days before the match, which we do not understand.

Indeed, we have done everything possible to ensure that London is in the best possible conditions, both in terms of sport and health, by financing ourselves a plane chartered especially for them with a return trip during the day. It’s a huge investment on our part. We were even going to pay for the mandatory PCR tests to enter France!

We travel around 15 times a season to England, without complaint, and there is no good reason why London cannot come once in Toulouse.

I salute the firmness of the RFL, whose decision does not open the door to this type of drift. "

IF that is the case any Championship Club even part time can travel, but it should be when the current French crisis with COVID had eased.

The RFL should never have made any agreementcurrently, in a month or two the situation in France may change.

The club statement says they offered to play the games in reverse. Given Toulouse claim they had already chartered a plane for Broncos, I don't see why they wouldn't have agreed.

However I agree with Toulouse its a bit late in the day. Hughes should have told them when the p/t nonsense was raised that not level playing field & not going even without covid being an issue which of course it is.

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?.