https://wiganwarriors.com/blog/2020/09/ ... -update-2/ As it stands Catalans go top, we drop to fourth.

https://wiganwarriors.com/blog/2020/09/ ... -update-2/ As it stands Catalans go top, we drop to fourth.

Fair enough, it’s not ideal for anybody and we’ll just have to roll with the punches. If it helps get the season finished then I’m all for anything that could have a positive impact.

Looks like yet more incompetence and over complication.

Surely all it took was a simple phone call to Peter V'landys at the NRL and get a copy of their (successful) Apollo protocols - Players in full lockdown and no CC etc.

We’d probably need to speak to Boris first and see if he could stop making mistakes. If the country was in the Covid position Australia is in, things would be much easier to build from but sadly we’re in a mess.

I wonder if Australia got people to ‘help out’ by packing restaurants out on the promise of cheap chicken? (replace with other foods where appropriate).

Am I able to use the word FARCICAL yet?

My thoughts exactly. I think we all accept this is about finding a way though first and foremost. If some teams end up playing more fixtures than others and some have to play midweek with reserves and loan players to secure the sky money then that's what it'll have to be. We aren't financially in a position to just sack the season off because it's lost some integrity.

Which bit is? The game needs to finish the season or it may go under altogether, so these new rules aren’t farcical and nor is the aim of coming back in the first place. The lack of stipulations on the players was farcical and a token gesture of asking them not to celebrate isn’t fooling anybody. Sargeant Pepper is right that the game needs to look at the Aussie model and see what we can do better but ultimately we live in a country that’s been hit far harder than Australia. Until the guys at the top start getting things right everyone in society is a sitting duck but it doesn’t change the fact that if we want rugby league to exist on the other side, we’ll have to just suck up any moving of the goalposts.

I wish the RFL were as stringent on Covid rules as they are on finding incidents of foul play.

We just go with it, we have to because what’s the alternative?! The RFL need to get some black and white Covid rules in place and nail players who don’t adhere to them but operationally/logistically they’re being flexible and actually doing a pretty good job IMO.

Exactly. There are people all over social media saying just cancel it, as though we could do that and everything just return as normal afterwards. Agree regarding the COVID rules, they were far too soft with what was required.

I don't understand the outrage most people (admittedly on social media) are feeling on this one. This season is purely about putting as many games on as possible and getting as much money in as we can, where we can. Otherwise we will have no game.

Playing games and finishing the season is fine, but you can't keep moving the goal posts otherwise we end up with a bunch of meaningless friendlies.

For me, the season should have started again when Toronto went with everyone on 0 and playing each other twice. If that meant midweek games then so be it, but to play on a percentage ruling with some sides playing more games than others and some at home etc etc is amateur at best. Typical of the RFL to make it up as they go along.

I understand the financial implications of ending the season etc, but at what point do we decide that the competition has lost all integrity?

If we had started the season again we would be in a far worse position than we are now because we would suddenly have more games to fit in than we do already, with the same worry about teams managing to finish the schedule. Not to mention fans would kick off that it makes a joke of the earlier games they paid to watch.

Of course it has lost integrity, but I don't think one season's integrity is more important than the survival of televised full time Super League. If we were flush with money then we could have afforded to have principles like that. I'm enjoying the games but I won't think of whoever wins in 2020 as on a par with other years, but I still think we need to do whatever we can to play it out.