Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:07 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

I was looking at the championship table, Fev have won 10 from 10, 100%. Tolouse have had 2 games called off so are 8 from 8 100% yet they are top and Fev are second because of a slightly better points difference, if its something similar come end of the season Tolouse will go up and if I was a Fev fan I would be far from happy.

Wow thats shocking for a team with 2 more wins. Could you imagine winning 2 more games than a team yet them getting promoted ahead of you or even winning the LLS ahead of you just because they fulfilled less fixtures.

There would be absolute uproar.

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 5:52 am  

vastman wrote:

I tend to agree but how do you prove it.

Cas must have slipped up somehow but Salford must have got the con trick right. Oh well.

Not really Cas's fault, they could have used academy players to fulfil the fixture but had 2 confirmed covid cases resulting in the rest of them having to isolate and making them unavailable, hence not been able to raise a team as academy players don't count on the 7 required.

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:42 am  

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.

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 9:11 am  

happyjack wrote:

Not really Cas's fault, they could have used academy players to fulfil the fixture but had 2 confirmed covid cases resulting in the rest of them having to isolate and making them unavailable, hence not been able to raise a team as academy players don't count on the 7 required.

... 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.

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:01 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Wow thats shocking for a team with 2 more wins. Could you imagine winning 2 more games than a team yet them getting promoted ahead of you or even winning the LLS ahead of you just because they fulfilled less fixtures.

There would be absolute uproar.

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

That's not "fair" either.

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:06 pm  

coco the fullback wrote:

... 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.

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.

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 3:46 pm  

dboy wrote:

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

That's not "fair" either.

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.

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 4:10 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

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!

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 5:49 pm  

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

Re: Salford unable to raise a squad??? : Thu Jul 01, 2021 6:14 pm  

Redscat wrote:

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

Yes