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MLR have just binned their entire season
By Online Editors
Major League Rugby have scrapped the 2020 season, announcing on Thursday that all remaining matches are cancelled as a result of the covid-19 global crisis and the health and safety guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“On behalf of MLR and all of our teams, I’m saddened to announce that the remainder of the 2020 season is cancelled,” said MLR commissioner George Killebrew.
“We believe it is ultimately the correct decision as we factored in health and safety risks for all parties. I want to ensure our fans that there is no doubt MLR will be back in 2021 and will emerge bigger and better than ever before.
“We will be using this time as an opportunity to grow all aspects of MLR and we’re excited to continue this journey into 2021, and for many years to come.”
Seven days earlier, on March 12, the league had initially announced it was taking a 30-day suspension to determine next steps in regard to the coronavirus pandemic.
Just five rounds of regular season matches had been played in a campaign France's Mathieu Bastareaud and New Zealand's Ma'a Nonu were among the latest stars recruited to help grow the sport's popularity.
Champions San Diego Legion, who snapped up Nonu, were the only unbeaten team before the break in the twelve-team competition.
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Ford completely took the energy out the game for us, waving his hands telling people to calm down. Just for us to die off and lose the momentum.
Bringing him on all the time to ‘close out’ games is condescending to Smith. Get Ford out and let Marcus Smith & Fin Smith run the show. The future is them so give them the keys and let them get on with it.
Go to commentsTaking Marcus Smith off was a big puzzle and probably cost England the game. However, Abs created more opportunities and scored some tries but left a lot out there through sloppy execution, not playing to the ref and no enforcement of English off-side play. The fact the game was close all through made it worth watching but it was a frustrating pectacle. English succeeded in slowing the game down and were in the refs ear which Gardner allowed. I think Ireland or France will punish the sloppy execution more than England so still much for ABs to work on.
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