Forfeiting Games : Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:45 pm  

In yesterday's Q&A with Michael Carter, he was asked about players doing community coaching.

He suggested that the "red zone" around players still needed maintaining, for obvious health reasons, but also that it's likely that any club unable to fulfil a fixture in 2022, will simply lose the game.

Good move?

Re: Forfeiting Games : Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:15 pm  

Yes. It's how it should have been all along.

Re: Forfeiting Games : Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:16 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Yes. It's how it should have been all along.

Agree with you it’s got to be sorted out last year and this was bloody stupid

Re: Forfeiting Games : Wed Nov 10, 2021 6:52 pm  

Definitely a good move - if a club forfeits a game or can’t name a squad, for whatever reason, they should lose the points - simple.

Re: Forfeiting Games : Wed Nov 10, 2021 8:41 pm  

Health is more important than games, so whilst Covid restrictions are in place, it is fair for any game that is postponed because of Covid isn't a loss.
Anybody who thinks that games were called off for tactical reasons (when clubs lose money by not playing) is kidding themselves.

Re: Forfeiting Games : Wed Nov 10, 2021 8:46 pm  

Hopie wrote:

Health is more important than games, so whilst Covid restrictions are in place, it is fair for any game that is postponed because of Covid isn't a loss.
Anybody who thinks that games were called off for tactical reasons (when clubs lose money by not playing) is kidding themselves.

You don't think some clubs engineered contact shut downs/failed to manage player red zones, based on who they were due to play?

I can tell tell you that some clubs think that certain clubs did.

Re: Forfeiting Games : Wed Nov 10, 2021 10:18 pm  

dboy wrote:

You don't think some clubs engineered contact shut downs/failed to manage player red zones, based on who they were due to play?

I can tell tell you that some clubs think that certain clubs did.

Come on then. Which clubs?

Re: Forfeiting Games : Thu Nov 11, 2021 4:44 pm  

Hopie wrote:

Health is more important than games, so whilst Covid restrictions are in place, it is fair for any game that is postponed because of Covid isn't a loss.
Anybody who thinks that games were called off for tactical reasons (when clubs lose money by not playing) is kidding themselves.

They definitely did, you only have to look at which games were getting called off to see that. It was Catalans or Saints games most of the time. The vast number of postponements was also a reflection of how unprofessional the staff and players are at some clubs. The bigger, better run clubs barely had any games called off, but the usual tinpot Yorkshire sides who've held the competition back since it's inception in 1996 clearly didn't act as professionally as they should.

Re: Forfeiting Games : Thu Nov 11, 2021 5:08 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

The bigger, better run clubs barely had any games called off, but the usual tinpot Yorkshire sides who've held the competition back since it's inception in 1996 clearly didn't act as professionally as they should.

I agree with your general post, but not sure quite who this bit is aimed at.

No club played more league games than Wakefield, for example.

A team further East ducked all the top teams away from home.

Re: Forfeiting Games : Thu Nov 11, 2021 6:42 pm  

dboy
Wigan did