Yes
When are the ānationalā team due back?
October
That should be funny.
He timed that wind up really badly. A swing and a miss.
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It has come back in several countries. Itās coming back in Ireland at the end of the month.
Are you still living under the delusion that your British soccer league of choice will be immune to Covidās financial implications?
Thatās a touchy reply.
Not surprising that nobody noticed it coming back.
No itās just grounded in fact.
World rugby has taken huge pay cuts, as has British soccer clubs in the north of the United Kingdom.
Do you think that the SPFL get paid a lot for their rights or something?
Seriously self owned
Premiership back in England next week
Its on its knees but will survive. Top 14 pro 14 and premiership will keep going albeit pay cuts qill be required. What harm some of those lads are on stupid money. Championship in England is done as regards a pro league unless some millionaire wants to throw away his money. There is a lot of irish lads who were playing Championship back looking for AIL clubs and real jobs as their contracts were cancelled over.
The rugby lads are very rattled and highly strung going by the reactions here.
You raised a good point pro rugby is built on sand and needs to be brought back to reality. Alot of people were starting to think it could compete commercially with soccer worldwide and the money will always be there. If this happened 5 or 10 years down the line it would be much worse
Shur the rugby lads all from well heeled families. Fear of their arseā¦
Huh?
When was that ever stated?
Also no sport is safe without crowds. Most soccer leagues are in trouble too, hence the pay cuts. The SPFLās broadcast rights last time were Ā£17.5m per annum with some other domestic and Euro money (in particular for the likes of Celtic) brining that up. The Aviva Premiership would be Ā£40m per annum with European money and also a good chunk of the Six Nations available to them. I believe the Pro14 is Ā£30m per annum.
For perspective, the English Premier Leagueās domestic rights alone are Ā£1.7Bn a year. There are very few leagues with the cash that the EPL have but they also have further to fall. There will be long term brand erosion with no crowds even on the tv.
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Head injuries in rugby not just confined to on the pitch.
From the Indo.
A RUGBY fan has been awarded ā¬6,000 damages after a painful bang on the head from a level crossing barrier as he made his way to a Leinster-Munster match at the Aviva stadium.
Iarnrod Eireann failed in its duty of care and was liable for what occurred, Judge Deirdre Gearty held at Dublin District Court yesterday/today (fri).
Dublin Fire Brigade paramedic Rod Hayden sued after he was hit by a descending barrier as he was walked among a crowd of supporters making their way to the derby on Oct. 6, 2018.
Mr Hayden, of Herbert Park, Bray, Co. Wicklow, told the contested hearing he approached the automatic gates of the Dart crossing at Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, and waited for them to rise.
He told William Fitzgerald BL he then proceeded but before he got across he suffered a bang which knocked him rolling on the ground holding his head.
He recalled he got a ābit of a shockā and he was dazed. He also noticed other people were still on the tracks between the closed barriers.
There was a man in a high-vis jacket at the level crossing but he did not hear any warning.
Afterwards he had extra neck pain and headache which got so bad he went to his GP. He was told he had whiplash and to take pain killers.
He went to the doctor twice but by January 2019 he no longer suffered symptoms.
CCTV footage was shown to the judge.
Questioned by Iarnrod Eireannās counsel Brendan Savage, Mr Hayden said he crossed when the barriers went up. He did not hear a warning buzzer or see warning lights.
As a fire-fighter paramedic for 17 years, he was trained to pay attention, he said.
He agreed with Mr Savage that sometimes people have to take extra care and said that through his work he conducts dynamic risk assessments and gets alerted by a buzzer.
He told the court he was observant and he tended not to do stupid things like scale through barriers.
Engineer Neil OāCarroll examined the scene later. He told the court that once the first barrier went up, pedestrians had six seconds before the second one started to come down. However, a crowd moved slower.
The expert witness said the sound of the signal was also particularly low; it was a buzzer and not like a klaxon. He thought it was fine on a normal day but not very alarming in the context of a match crowd.
He took a recording of the buzzer and found it was not as loud as the sound of passing cars. He told the court the plaintiff would not have been able to see the lights.
One attendant managed the ādanger zoneā and it was not sufficient to to control the flow of traffic and pedestrians, the witness said.
Because it was a match day, Iarnrod Eireann hired a security firm to have two attendants manage people and traffic at the crossing.
One of them admitted he had moved out of position and he should have stopped the people.
Legal costs, medical and witness expenses were awarded to the plaintiff.
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Leinsterās getting a bit of a hiding here
Keenan on the wing for Leinster watched last years final in Bective clubhouseš
He could well be watching this yearās final in Bective clubhouse as well. This is a woeful performance from Leinster against a decimated Saracens side.
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