Toulon, as you probably guessed, unhappy although possibly understandably so if their version of the contradictory advice from EPCR correct:
The Rugby Club Toulonnais learned this Friday April 2, 2021 with amazement of the decision of the EPCR to cancel tonight's meeting in Leinster due to the presence of a positive case for COVID-19 in the Red workforce & Black. While the PCR tests performed on the entire squad on Monday, March 29th all had negative results, the tests carried out on Wednesday March 31st revealed a positive case, that of a frontline player of the RCT. In accordance with protocol, the RCT leaders then immediately notified the EPCR and the National Rugby League. The player in question has been placed in solitary confinement. The EPCR responded a few hours later to ask further questions of the RCT doctor. The latter then answered the entire questionnaire submitted. The EPCR then requested "contact tracing" for the player in question. The RCT provided it as soon as possible, specifying that the departure for Ireland was set for Thursday morning (April 1). The EPCR then analyzed, with the support of an independent doctor, the "contact tracing" file provided by the RCT. At the end (late Thursday afternoon), the EPCR asked the club to perform a new PCR test on the entire Red & Black squad in Ireland. These tests were therefore carried out last night in the Irish capital and all the results came out negative. Finally, the EPCR considered this Friday morning (a few hours before the match), that all the front lines were considered as contact cases and that they could not take part in the match, offering the possibility of shifting the meeting on Sunday on condition of replacing the 6 frontline players. An obvious sporting impossibility ... This is once again proof of the errors linked to the organization of European competitions. The EPCR left the players and staff to travel to Ireland, prepare for the match, only to deprive them of playing in this major event within hours of kick-off. Rugby Club Toulonnais strongly deplores this decision and sends its thoughts to all its supporters who were impatiently awaiting this meeting.
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