Excuse and hiding behind the virus I'm afraid. Next time they will raise a team against us and have a good chance of winning what a load of guff. Leeds and Salford should have automatic 0-24 losses now.
Leeds didn't fancy Catalan or STS away wait till we have more players back.

... but do unavailable first team players count? it could be that a large proportion of the Salford 7 were injured or suspended. How many were from the squad named to play? We'll never know.

What about if you don't finish top because you couldn't play as many games as other teams?

That's not "fair" either.

Not sure how it works for first teamers, but academy players don't count and with Cas having to isolate the academy due to 2 cases, they were unable to call on them to make up the numbers for the game which caused the game to be forfeited and not postponed unlike Salford who played the system for their own benefit.

It’s not but it’s fairer than having a team finishing top/above you with less wins imo.

It’s just a mess. Halfway through season and already some teams have played 4 less than others. That’s crazy.

Best plan would have been to reduce games this season to say 18-20 and allow a number of free weekends which would act as a Covid fixture weekend to capture re-arrangements. The teams would more or less that way all finish on the same number of games played without fixture cramming which had ruined the quality and seen a crazy injury list for this year.

They obviously couldn’t or didn’t due to the money implications so we are going to end up with a number of clubs fixture cramming and or not being able to fulfill all fixtures.

I don’t have the answer but there’s very little wiggle room been left and I’m sure it could have been handled better.

We will have to wait and see if there are any arguements over the % system come end of the year.

It's no less fair and no more fair.

The rules applied here are more about teams being unable to travel to France/isolate due to being PT.

I imagine the game(s) between the two will be quite something!

Does Saints 24-0 "victory" over Cas count as a win in the percentages,then?

Yes

Yes - Cas dropped a place in the league table because of it.

Ridiculous!!!!

Why???

They've ducked a game they would lose heavily anyway and saved players for future games and/or they've simply been unable to raise a team, thus breaking the Operational Rules.

You think you should miss a game and it not count???