Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:56 pm  

York , according to the RFL site, have only 13 players making the trip.

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:17 pm  

And I don't think Mark Applegarth is fully fit either.

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Sat Sep 24, 2016 3:13 pm  

Just read Russ Spiers forgot his passport !

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:02 pm  

Final score Toulouse 62 v York 10 .

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:58 pm  

Good effort by the sounds of it, especially with only 12 players.

How it could happen remains to be answered though. How part-time players can be expected to arrange time off to travel to France at such short notice is beyond me.

And this will look like a local derby compared with a trip to Toronto next year. A complete joke!

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Sat Sep 24, 2016 6:47 pm  

Agree 100%

COYD

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:01 pm  

weighman wrote:

Agree 100%

COYD

Yeah but it seems some of the York absentees made themselves unavailable on purpose cos' they didn't want to travel etc. I could name names but I won't. I feel sorry for Ford and the 12 who could be bothered to make the effort.

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:53 am  

A disgrace in professional sport. If the York club cant get a side together i.e 13 players for a play off game then the game should have been forfeited.This is not having a go either at the 12 who turned out. To play 80 mins in hot temperatures , a man down with no subs , then it was a gallant effort. The ones who couldn't be arsed should be sacked. ( unless other things are going off behind the scenes we don't know about).

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Sun Sep 25, 2016 11:52 am  

Chris Kendall is a very competant ref (imo)but I was surprised he didn't allow the players a water break after 20 mins in each half.
The choice of ref will be important for the final. I'm hoping for a full-time ref for such an important encounter and not the part-timer we saw at Toulouse last weekend who happens to be the same ref for the Barrow v Donny play off !!

Re: Touuse v York Sat 24/9/2016 4pm : Sun Sep 25, 2016 9:16 pm  

I hope Barrow stuff em .