Tomorrow’s game in Catalan still going ahead and a decision made tomorrow on the Giants v Salford game. Now me I would just cancel it all full stop, but that is just me. We have not had a state funeral since Winston Churchill, I guess a lot on here we’re not even have been born when that happened.

People have lived and died in her time in reign and a lot will not know how to deal with the with exception of the government and the royals as plans would already have been made.

What are peoples thoughts on wether the games go ahead or should be postponed. Please have respectful answers.

Not a royalist so for me just carry on as normal.

It looks as though the majority of sporting events will not take place today (Friday). The Catalan game would have been difficult to rearrange due to travel.

Cancelling events, be they sporting or entertainment, means that the people involved will be losing their income. The funeral itself will be a Bank Holiday and, whilst it will not be mandatory for employers to give their staff paid leave, there will not doubt be an expectation for this to happen. I know that many people will feel that a single day isn’t much (whether you are a Royalist or not I think that we can all agree that 70 years is a decent shift) but imagine how you would feel if your wages were stopped during a period of mourning?

As they say, life goes on.

There's always one!

OP asked for thoughts, I gave my opinion without disrespecting anyone. That OK to have differing opinions to you?

Opinions are irrelevant. Respect is earned and deserved.

In your opinion. If you read the OP's post he asks for opinions. Maybe you should steer clear of posts that asks for people's thoughts as it might shock you to hear people have differing viewpoints to yourself. I'm not going to steer this topic into a back and forth debate with you so I won't be saying anymore to you about it. So have your last twopence.

Stop this malarkey right now.

All football is off by the looks of it, so I expect RL will follow suit. Not sure where this'll leave the comp in terms of potential GF reschedule, or they'll just play the first playoff games mid-week

With the GF date fixed, and the World Cup to follow, unlike football the RL hasn't got too much wriggle room.

I feel as though many sporting organizations were waiting to see what others did.

With the Premier League calling off games, I expect everyone else to do so.

Whether you agree or not, the scenes over the next few days will show the regard the Queen was held in by the wider British public. If RL continues when all others don't, it'd be a terrible look for the sport.

The game at Catalan will be difficult to move and may well go ahead as it's in France. The Huddersfield v Salford game could be moved to Sunday, as the St Leger race day is at Doncaster.

“GET SUPER LEAGUE DONE “.

Me too. So that’s two. In a country with food banks I’m not a fan of giving one family millions of pounds of public money to live in palaces.

I agree that it would be a "terrible look" for the sport and when I first read karetaker's OP I thought it was a fair question.

No matter what your 'persuasion', as 100% Wire says we (the game) are on a tight schedule ahead of the World Cup and whilst I wouldn't anticipate the nation to be in full mourning 'for ever', there is it seems a Royal protocol that will be observed and the timings of these State Events will dictate the mood and inform who can do what when

I did ask (politely) to refrain from this kind of posting as it's irrelevant to the topic and RL.

If you want to give everyone your opinion and great insight on the Monarchy and the State of the Nation take it to The Sin Bin

The games are on

I'm hoping the games go ahead due to the tight schedule. I'm sure the RL players & fans can show their feelings prior to the game. I had great respect for the Queen but don't think the sporting world and other activities should have to stop for any length of time. Rugby Union & Soccer have less of a problem to re-jig postponed games. Cricket has similar problems to RL.

I suppose there really is some wriggle room if necessary . Nothing would be lost by running the World Cup & GF playoffs & final in tandem for the length of time any disruption would last. The eventual WC winner will no doubt be from the southern hemisphere anyway.

On the Royal front ,despite what anyone thinks about the Monarchy , the Queen has done an excellent job in her 70 year reign being a valuable ambassador for & bringing prestige to the UK. RIP Your Majesty.

It would good if our politicians off all sides now took a lesson from the Queen & started to work together for the good of the country instead of themselves.

Why, how do you think it looks now



And if you are only accepting pro monarchy comments on the thread then you should tag the thread title as such so that posters will be aware of it.

I have no worries about how it looks. Other sports on as well.

Well all games are on, in fairness and already been pointed out with the World Cup so close it would of been near impossible to get it done.

Where have I said I was only accepting pro monarchy comments? I think you may have over reached here if you are trying to register that I'm trying to skew debate or fathom out whether I'm a monarchist or not, and btw whether you or anyone else is or not really isn't a problem as far as I'm concerned.. .

What I found unsatisfactory with some earlier posts, was that they seemed to be going off topic, the proposition is how will the RUGBY LEAGUE season be affected by events and as above it really isn't a pro or anti monarchy issue.

If you or AN Other want the season to carry as normal fine, I don't mind at all, it's about opinions BUT what I find hard to countenance is turning the thread into a social debate whether that's "there's always one" comment or (paraphrasing) how can the Royals be supported in a country with such inequality?

You will note that no posts have been deleted and my original prompt for 'restraint' wasn't targeted at any one or any view but thanks for your advice.

Genuine question, but what does cancelling sporting and other leisure events achieve during this time, apart from force people to be miserable by having their one release from a mundane work life taken from them?

Now, if people were off work during this time, then I could understand it a lot more, but asking people to continue their everyday grind, while removing their small pleasures in life, just smacks of state imposed sanctions and reeks badly of social elitism.

Where did I say you said it?


Actions speak louder than words, and it was your actions that led me to my conclusion.
Regarding your overreach assertion please be assured I don’t care who you are, where you go, what you did as long as you love me



The point is you chose to select a post with negative monarchy sentiment and advised the poster to take their monarchy opinions and world views off to the sin bin, whilst at the same time ignoring several posts spinning positive monarchy sentiment and not telling those posters to clear off to the sin bin with their monarchy opinions and world views



It’s about balance.

And yes, the post that violates the AUP, containing the uncalled for personal attack on a poster giving an honest comment has not been removed



And my advice is as FOC to your good self as it is to the Forum Owner, fair is fair