Sadly for the Baa-Baas, the Professional Game Testing Oversight Group and Public Health England deemed the game too much of a risk, despite negative Tests for both camps on the morning. What happened behind the scenes with the Barbarians cancellation?Ĭaptain Ryan Wilson goes through some of the things done to try and ensure the game went ahead ? #Offload /UNGrVCWMTd “So Niko is sat at the ground waiting for us to get there, that’s how late we knew.” Even to the point where he phones me from Twickenham, saying ‘Where the **** is everybody?” I said ‘Niks, have you not heard mate? The game is cancelled.’ “Niko Matawalu, had just played a game at his club and I phone him and said ‘Niks, can you get on a plane?’ He said: ‘I’ll be there tomorrow, no worries. “It got to the point where we had to replace the player, I can’t tell if it was forward or a back because it doesn’t matter who it was. “That night, no one knew the results, no know what was happening. But they did pick up four players, that were positive the next day. “Do you know what the ironic thing was? The guy that tested positive for the lat flow was negative the next day. “So that night we sat in a line in the team room… it was like hands behind the back job, mouth open, nose out and he went for it.
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