20/21 Provision Fixtures Published

quercynomad wrote: These have been released this afternoon based on a 5 September start date heavily caveated that the date might move. https://www.ncarugby.com/national-1/national-league-2020-21-fixtures-announced-depending-on-rugby-restart-date/ Not clear whether the fixture list just moves back with the start date and no real further info on either NCA or RFU website!

RFU announcement gives more info

https://www.englandrugby.com/dxdam/1e/1e3dd581-3dcb-4e61-9389-f5c07667c51a/NCA%20Fixtures%202020-2021.pdf

JonDee wrote: JonDee wrote: quercynomad wrote: These have been released this afternoon based on a 5 September start date heavily caveated that the date might move. https://www.ncarugby.com/national-1/national-league-2020-21-fixtures-announced-depending-on-rugby-restart-date/ Not clear whether the fixture list just moves back with the start date and no real further info on either NCA or RFU website! RFU announcement gives more info https://www.englandrugby.com/dxdam/1e/1e3dd581-3dcb-4e61-9389-f5c07667c51a/NCA%20Fixtures%202020-2021.pdf on the RFU website it gives more info cannot get the link try again !!! https://www.englandrugby.com/dxdam/1e/1e3dd581-3dcb-4e61-9389-f5c07667c51a/NCA%20Fixtures%202020-2021.pdf

Camquin wrote: I think we will play those fixtures on those dates. If we start late the missed fixtures get added to the end. If we start by 3rd October we play all thirty rounds and go on into May. If not we are into window 2 and play one round of fixtures home or away followed by top 8 / bottom 8. And if cannot start until after 28th Nov  we go into the third window it is just one round of fixtures. And if we have not got started by February we call everything off - as there will not be time for 15 matches.

Those scenarios make sense - cannot believe RFU had anything to do with it.

However, I seriously doubt we will start 5th September - but hopefully I am wrong.

There are no conferences in the National Leagues.

Just read an article in the Telegraph.

Apparently the RFU still haven't submitted their road map to restarting play to the government! Why not, what have they been doing for the past months - football has already done their's for grass roots resumption.

Also the article is still discussing various options including 2 touch rugby with 8 plays to score (sounds like rugby league to me) also versions of the game without scrums, rucks and mauls.

It does however state that clubs will not be forced to accept any hybrid type game, acknowledging that some clubs aren't interested until proper rugby union can resume.

At no point do crowds get mentioned!

In light of this rugby restarting 5th September is pie in the sky🤔🤔

Mark W-J wrote: Do those figures add up?  If those tests return 1% positive then why does it jump to over 10% when you apply it to the RFU GMS data? [edit] thinking along the same lines as Camquin

1% of 350k is 3,500 as PiffPaff stated. Not sure where you get 10% from?

Edited by Raider999 - 16 Jul 2020 at 11:18

Mark, its a sample and 1% of 350000 is 3500 is it not? The number of participating 1st XVs is roughly 1600, 3500/1600 = 2.18.

Edited by PiffPaff - 16 Jul 2020 at 11:25

quercynomad wrote: More how you jump from 3500 to 2 players per first XV (=10%) If you stick with 1% then with 43 players on the pitch less than 1 person every 2 games would be expected to be positive

Agreed on that, but MJ stated PPs figures jumped from 1 to 10% - just pointing out they didn't.

As for the crowd - I would say most are either above 60 or below 20 - most of the former are reluctant to venture out - most of the latter don't seem to obey the social distancing anyway.

Besides, as I said the article in Telegraph doesn't mention crowds at all.

The sample of Premiership Rugby returned 1% positive.  But you go on to say that if you apply the figures to the game as a whole it equates to 2 players per 1st XV, or four players per match.  Four players out of 40 (including replacements) is 10%.