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Subject: The fundamental flaw to his argument Author: rugby lover [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: "Fri, May 13 2011, 19:36:18 GMT" In reply to: John 's message, "pah!" on "Fri, May 13 2011, 18:03:31 GMT" The fundamental flaw to this argument is that it presumes that the clubs which are in the PRL cartel now (which MacGeeghan by implication says) are the best clubs to be there serving the country geographically and potentially. Truth is that they just happened to be in the right place at the right time when professionalism came in and have gained all the benefits such as RFU money, TV, sponsorship since then while others have had very little. They are now so far away that it is almost impossible for other clubs who missed out then to catch up. The PRL cartel clubs do not serve the RFU objectives of providing rugby throughout England. Instead they have hijacked a sport and made it into a product for themselves. This is not for the benefit of the game as a whole. Ringfencing of these hijackers and continuing to give them RFU or more correctly,our money, just because they corralled all the best players and then insisted they have all the England Academies so that they can keep the blackmail that way - will only make the hijack complete. I think the Premiership would better be called the "Somali Pirates" League in honour of the similarity with their East African counterparts! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: More Qs than As Author: Gnasher [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: "Sat, May 14 2011, 9:57:24 GMT" Who else meets the PL's stringent ground criteria to make up the 14th team and would relegation from the Championship also be suspended over the same period? If the idea included pumping substantial amounts of money into the Championship and leagues below over say a three year period to allow grounds to be developed then maybe. Otherwise IM's suggestion seems destined just to reinforce the gulf between those fortunate enough to be in the PL when it was formed and everybody else. Didn't hear him saying this when he was working at L Scottish! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: respect Author: o moseman [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: "Sun, May 15 2011, 0:07:41 GMT" i now put ian m in the same mould of stuart barnes,elitist narrow minded rugby men who have been involved at the top end to long and forgotten their grass roots,the comments are only self serving and destructive to the game below the chosen few,i agree with the other posts here and ian m has lost some respect from me and many others. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]