Will the Top 14 see part of its first night in 2020-2021 amputated by the Covid-19? The Stade Français, which is to host the Union Bordeaux-Bègles Friday evening (8:45 p.m.), requested the postponement of the meeting according to our colleagues from L’Equipe. The reason? The consequences of contamination with the new coronavirus in a large part of the workforce, placed in fourteen in the wake, during the internship in Nice at the end of July.
According to our information, the club has transmitted to the National Rugby League (NRL) medical data indicating the condition of these frontline players, particularly affected by lung damage. Nine of them could not resume progressive training until Monday. Too short for a high-level meeting in the eyes of Parisian leaders for these exposed posts of pillar and hooker.
The scenario was mentioned by the president of the Bordeaux-Bègles Union, Laurent Marti, on Thursday. “Apparently the Stade Français has found good reasons to postpone this match,” he explained to France Bleu Gironde. We are out of protocol, however, but a priori they have pretended to have frontline players who have not been able to train enough. “
Decision during the day
The case of the capital club is indeed not provided for in the protocol published by the League at the end of August. The text provides for a postponement of a Top 14 or Pro D2 meeting “in the event that three players from the professional group test positive over a period of 7 rolling days”. But, specifies the League, “these principles do not constitute an automatic rule: the recommendations of the Covid-19 Expertise Commission stem from its assessment based on the elements brought to its attention for each situation”.
Will the Parisian arguments encourage the LNR to postpone this match or to make them lose the meeting by forfeit? A decision on the subject must be taken this Tuesday at the end of the morning.
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