Just on Sky sports. Today's Roosters and Dogs game has been posponed as Dogs prop Aiden Toleman is suspected of having the coronavirus. Toleman is being tested after having secondary contact with a recent coronavirus positive person. It is unlikely that he has the virus but the match today will be postponed until Monday 6.30 pm as a precaution.
The underlying story in this is that the Roosters will now have a very short turn around to play the eels (5 days) as their scheduling will be very disrupted.
“There’s a very remote risk of infection within the Bulldogs squad. To ensure there is no risk at all, the player will be tested today and the game delayed until tomorrow to ensure the test results have returned. I want to congratulate the Bulldogs for swiftly informing the NRL,’’ Vlandy's said.
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Effing Corona virus BS again.
A squillionty billion people can roam the streets in mock protest but if ONE NRL player coughs we shut it all down for 24 hours - Effing joke.
IF Tolman tests positive then any player who has played against him in the past two matches MUST be quarantined for 14 days and comp cancelled - AGAIN.
That is the normal repsonse for anyone else.
MORONS!
OH FFS Slugg - where have you left your PANIC button?
This is world ending stuff right here and you want to risk the entire nation?
Denmark just culled their entire MINK farms pups for having Corona virus, you do know the experts did tell us animals can't contract this virus, don't you?
Now you are getting the idea.
Being Sunday you are alowed a day off. lol
This also means that the Roosters will have a shorter turnaround for Saturday night because of the reschedule.
You would think that if the NRL can reschedule a game with only a few hours notice that they would be able to reschedule a game with 5 days notice. the only fair thing to do would be to push the roosters/eels game to Sunday next week because their is a big difference between being able to plan for a 5 day turnaround with a lot of notice compared with zero notice
That would be fair
Yeah, I think that's a good idea, Frankie. Five days is not a fair turnaround for the Roosters, imo.
Plus make it the Game of the round or whatever they call it.
However 5 days is not such a short period and allows for recovery imo.
Why should the Rorters get special dispensation when plenty of other teams have 5 day turn around throughout the season?
Last year we had teams playing on Sunday then backing up on Friday night - where's the difference here?
Not to mention manly had a 5day turnaround from playing us to to broncos
Col do you understand that teams are operating under strict restrictions due to the current situation?
Do you understand the difference between clubs knowing they have games with only a 5 day turnaround well in advance and are then able to plan for them well in advance compared to being given zero notice?
You can easily say why should the roosters get special dispensation but every non eels fan can also say why do the eels always get special dispensation by being handed the such advantageous draws? Why do parra get to play all their sydney games at bankwest even when games aren't their home game? Why aren't parra made to play at other grounds in Sydney that the NRL have allocated when it is not their home game ?
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