It reads to me that only certain venue's put themselves forward, to the RFL or SL picking and choosing?

I'd imagine Mr Allam would have priced himself out of the market.

Indeed, and I suspect it will be Leeds, Huddersfield, Salford and Saints that get the nod, depends on the format.

catalans pushing for home games now....certainly puts a unfair balance on the format if they get them.....SL need to replace the word 'neutral' because it definitely wont be if this happens

Might all be academic by the time we get there? https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status ... 49927?s=19

Might all be academic by the time we get there? https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status ... 49927?s=19

When we finally get back underway, surely the rfl will have introduced the set restart rule, the nrl have implemented

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 6755384674 So it's all about making money!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 6755384674 So it's all about making money!

so you dont think this is all bull and sky are behind it to cover their own costs?

dont see premiership/championship football teams being made to do the same!

what are they being made to do?

there will be no fans so of course it will be 'neutral', what advantage do you expect for the 'home' teams in most games?
Yes travelling to France is a little bit more than travelling than for UK based games but it's not that much of a hardship is it, done properly this doesn't have any effect on match preparation does it? Not all teams are clearly going to play at their home ground , in fact you could potentially have all teams not playing at their home venue and always having 'away' teams.

Of course there should be balance, personally I think all matches should be played at their original venues unless there is a significant cost reduction across the board that can be fed back to those teams travelling the furthest, but I don't see that happening. So what is the reasoning behind matches played at a smaller number of venues instead of simply playing the games at the correct venue per the fixture list?

Aside from the non science based lunacy of playing matches without fans, games should have started ages ago given the risk of death FROM supposed C.19 as actual cause of death for under 40s (using NHS stats) is THREE times less than just the road casualty deaths in the 20-39 age groups (DfT figures for 201icon_cool.gif

'science based lunacy'? are you one of those that think Covid-19 hassuddenly got bored and packed up and gone home?

Aside from the fact that amazingly some over 40s go to rugby league games deaths from RTAs are not infectious unlike Covid-19.

you do have to wonder about the education system when someone uses the word 'supposed' in relation to a virus that has become endemic, has killed 540K, or at least paid a part in their deaths, a further 6.5M have recovered from it.