Toronto Wolfpack sitting out rest of 2020 Super League rugby season. MORE:
Financial difficulties have forced the Toronto Wolfpack to end their 2020 Super League rugby season. Team officials on Monday informed both Super League Europe and the Rugby Football League that the club, who were 0-6-0 in the top-tier Super League when play halted March 11 due to COVID-19.Financial difficulties have forced the Toronto Wolfpack to end their 2020 Super League rugby season.
Below is my edited interview with Toronto Wolfpack chairman and CEO Bob Hunter from Monday afternoon. BH: Well, we’ve been discussing it for two-to-three weeks. And again, Super League and the RFL were very supportive and understanding in listening to our concerns. We were confident that this transaction was going to happen, so we had committed to playing in Super League as early as last week, assuring them that we’ll be good. Guys will be back in training on Monday and testing. As I say, this transaction did not go through, and David could not fund it himself.
BH: This is when the discussions started was, if we’re going to lose seven guys, and not just because they’re among our best guys, what kind of squad can we field? We knew we still had to pay them, so all of the sudden the top seven guys on your payroll are now going back and sitting at home, getting 55 per cent of their wages. Now we have to fill those spots, and we were already light on our bench with 22 or 23 players under contract.
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