The Toulon – La Rochelle and Toulouse – Montpellier meetings, scheduled for Sunday on behalf of the 15th day of the Top 14, have been postponed, the RCT and the MHR being “Unable to play”, the National Rugby League announced on Friday.
Meetings already postponed by a day
“Following a series of control tests provided for by the Covid-19 protocol of the LNR, the Rugby Club Toulonnais and Montpellier Hérault Rugby respectively requested the postponement of the matches […] The LNR Competitions Committee, meeting urgently today, noted that Rugby Club Toulonnais and Montpellier Hérault Rugby were indeed unable to play ”, the NRL said in a statement.
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Initially scheduled for Saturday, the trip from La Rochelle (5th, 36 pts) to Toulon (11th, 22 pts) had already been postponed by one day after the detection of “New positive cases” at Covid-19 within the RCT (11th, 22 pts), which had around twenty.
17 positive players in Montpellier
According to the LNR press release, eight Toulon players would still have been in isolation at the time of the match and the Var club could not line up the six front row players required by the regulations. The shock between Toulouse (2nd, 41 pts) and Montpellier (3rd, 40 pts) is also reprogrammed.
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For the Hérault club, which could not count on six frontline players either, it is 17 players who were positive for Covid-19 and isolated at the time of the match. In total, since the start of the season, nine teams have at least one game late, the RCT being the club most affected since the reception of Stade Rochelais is its third postponed game.
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