Saddened! wrote:

Hopefully France will see sense and remove it's daft rules before too long. They have some ridiculous vaccine rules and still have restrictions and yet they are removing them despite topping 500,000 cases yesterday. Having a rule that says professional sportsmen have to be vaccinated to play in France whilst they could go on holiday there while their team plays is just really stupid.

How dare the French defend their borders in any way they see fit...white flag waving surrender monkeys

orangeman wrote:

How dare the French defend their borders in any way they see fit...white flag waving surrender monkeys

Defend their borders I can see you took your drama tablets this morning.

Saddened! wrote:

HHaving a rule that says professional sportsmen have to be vaccinated to play in France whilst they could go on holiday there while their team plays is just really stupid.

That's the most bat**** dumb thing I think i've seen all week.

Huddersfield are 83% vaccinated. If that's first team players only that means 6 players will be unavailable for their first game of the season which happens to be away against Toulouse. A not significant number especially if they are key players. They also happen to have two further away games in France this season in June /July a few extra injuries and the choice of those players could have a very significant impact on the season.

jools wrote:

Huddersfield are 83% vaccinated. If that's first team players only that means 6 players will be unavailable for their first game of the season which happens to be away against Toulouse. A not significant number especially if they are key players. They also happen to have two further away games in France this season in June /July a few extra injuries and the choice of those players could have a very significant impact on the season.

Does make you wonder how many clubs will be eyeing taking the defeat. If you throw in a few injuries and more out due to the concussion protocols and it becomes obvious a defeat is on the cards, you can save the travel cost by staying at home and probably significantly improve your chances of winning the following week.

I can't see Huddersfield being the lowest in terms of % jabbed either. I'd imagine Cas in particular will have a few out.

jools wrote:

Huddersfield are 83% vaccinated. If that's first team players only that means 6 players will be unavailable for their first game of the season which happens to be away against Toulouse. A not significant number especially if they are key players. They also happen to have two further away games in France this season in June /July a few extra injuries and the choice of those players could have a very significant impact on the season.

Got told as of yesterday that Huddersfield had 10 players unvaccinated as of 2 weeks ago
So either that's changed, or it does only cover 1st team players and the 10 figure is extended to include younger squad members?

[Pumpetypump]

I'd love to see a list of the players not vaccinated. I'd certainly hope someone centrally knows who they all are because that's the only way to determine if there's a certain demographic that we need to target for education / assurance.

orangeman wrote:

How dare the French defend their borders in any way they see fit...white flag waving surrender monkeys

That''s shocking. You need to have a word with yourself.

Also, when you can be hit with a 0 - 48 loss for not fulfilling fixtures, it puts the 2 French clubs in a stronger position than the English SL clubs, notwithstanding the chaos at Toulouse, of course.

Saddened! wrote:

Defend their borders I can see you took your drama tablets this morning.

Border control and managed quarantine delivered 52 deaths in New Zealand in 2 years....Total lack of any joined up thinking by populist idiots at No 10 delivered 150,000+ in the UK, so yeah, if being dramatic saves lives then so be it

wrencat1873 wrote:

That''s shocking. You need to have a word with yourself.

lol

wrencat1873 wrote:

Also, when you can be hit with a 0 - 48 loss for not fulfilling fixtures, it puts the 2 French clubs in a stronger position than the English SL clubs, notwithstanding the chaos at Toulouse, of course.

And saddened has me being dramatic.
No SL squad should be in a position where they can't fulfil fixtures because of ant vax loons in their squad.....Carter is just readying for posturing when wakey are under threat at the end of the season........