Domestic and European Rugby
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moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
I'm not a sports fan but there was much laughter in the factory at my work when they said it just now on the radio. They wern't popular in coventry
(don't think their original fans down south were too happy with the move up here either)
gawkrodger
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And alas, administration comes to pass.
Gutted
Hopefully it's not the end and we can continue in the championship
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Funnily enough, the YouTube algorithm threw up a Jason Robinson compilation this morning, which that rather reminded me of.
Almost bizarre how some players seem to be able to see/find a way through.
Almost bizarre how some players seem to be able to see/find a way through.
bendeus
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Top coach called Wayne looking for work at the moment. Bags of international experience, won an away game in SA, seconds away from winning a slam. You could do a lot worse.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
World Rugby in crisis after Bernard Laporte fined on corruption charges
The vice-chairman of World Rugby, Bernard Laporte, has been fined £64,500 and given a two-year suspended sentence nine months before the World Cup in France
Corruption can only affect more sports as big money gets involved.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Really? The Tigers did okay away to cash rich Clermont. We’re lucky in Ireland in that our only pro team sport is rugby. And that in Leinster at least the clubs and not just the private schools are producing players, see Osborne today, a product of Naas rugby club.
the Leicester game was a cracker, as was what I saw of the second half of Munster v Saints.
Come on, Leinster are basically the Ireland team and look like winners as the French teams aren’t really firing this year
Premiership teams are losing players left right and centre to other leagues, and teams are starting to view Europe as a distraction due to the stupid format. I find this pool stage very confusing but not sure who other than Leicester and Saracens are likely to qualify.
I would only back Saracens to get to the QF this year from the prem
Come on, Leinster are basically the Ireland team and look like winners as the French teams aren’t really firing this year
Premiership teams are losing players left right and centre to other leagues, and teams are starting to view Europe as a distraction due to the stupid format. I find this pool stage very confusing but not sure who other than Leicester and Saracens are likely to qualify.
I would only back Saracens to get to the QF this year from the prem
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
That’s more to do with how your clubs are run. Judging by wasps and the other one, some clubs are badly run yet some are well run too I’m thinking of Sale.
It’s not as if the premiership hasn’t had any cash, The clubs got bundles of cash from BT and CVC and went out and wrecked the HEC and the owners sprinkled their cocks with and flittered it away.
Throwing cash at the salary cap will cover up English club rugby’s issues but it won’t solve them.
Irish rugby is much poorer than the prem but Leinster’s governance is excellent as is Connacht’s. Munster and Ulster are prem levels incompetent.
I think central contracts make a massive difference to Ireland. But will concede I know little about the structure other than it’s better than in England.
Governance is shit in English rugby. Sale have a very rich owner, that doesn’t make a club well run, it just means they can afford to be badly run!
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Fair enough I know little about English rugby even though I live here. Ireland has 15 central contracts. Everyone else is on a provincial one. For instance JVDF is on a Leinster contract while Earls and Stockdale are centrally contracted. It’s not all good.
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I’ve missed most of the first half but it’s been a cracking second half so far
