The Anti Rugby Football Thread Pt 2

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No despicable deed should go unpunished.

Time he faced some consequences for it

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Munster’s James Cronin banned for one month for failing a drugs test last November.

“Dispensing error by a pharmacy” is what it is being attributed to.

Looking forward to Ewan getting his teeth into this one.

Hard to see pro rugby being able to survive Covid19 in the Northern Hemisphere.

It’s not a big enough game globally to survive without spectators. The plebs who fall for the marketing and contrived aura of it will get to see through it when it’s played in an empty stadium where they don’t have the chance to wear zany outfits, drink beer and wave at the camera and cry while singing pub songs, where they don’t have the chance to sit in a public bar and shussh people as a meathead kicks a funny ball off a kicking tee, no more social outings with the wife at midday on a Saturday to “watch the match”, no more #teamofus.

Playing ruggers behind closed doors would be the lightswitch moment with a lot of idiots that the whole thing is a farce.

Rugby football RIP.

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Pro rugby thought it was soccer French and English clubs going into massive debts to keep up with the Jones. Writing is on the wall thanks to coronavirus.

Might drive it to british and irish league. Will be no craic if we are the only ones left with any money

Where will the Irish sides get their money?

Tbf despite knowing a good few pro lads, I am very cynical and love to see Munster suffer, and the clowns who are in the red army with no affiliation with traditional clubs.

British league would need a salary cap to keep the English in check. The debt carried by saracens bath and wasps are sick. Speaking to locals in Coventry they describe Wasps as those gypos. They give out loads of free tickets and cant half fill the ricoh

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How are the Irish rugby provinces going to survive this?

Cap in hand for the state to bail them out?

They have a site out at Newlands Cross

A nations league with annual matches with NZ. Provinces survive on national team revenue

Where will they get the revenue when it’s unlikely they will get spectator matches until 2021 at the earliest.

They might finally break that glass ceiling of getting past a World Cup quarter final if there’s less than 8 teams left after all this.

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Famous victories in friendlies could soon be a thing of the past.

John Delaney is the man to sort this out and is currently at a loose end apparently.
They could sell newlands to pay his salary.

No fear of the IRFU

Sold it for 30m couple of years ago…another windfall due out of it when re zoned

“Contrived aura” is a great description

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