Always a Wasp

I enjoyed listening to Cips's interview with Jim Hamilton. Doesn't sound like he's been too complimentary of Dai in his book either though.

Just catching up with this interview this morning. Danny comes across really well, a couple of comments about Dai.

Wonder if Daly is headed south either at or near Pau, him and Dobby were very good friends.

Not sure I agree he is talking sense, he's just having another whine about the latest topics.

A lot of the narrative he is currently complaining about was started by him with his 'we need a 10 team league to survive' .

Plus I don't get the Premiership is the most competitive, there were a number of results last year where the winning margins were huge, as teams put out weaker squads if they thought it was a match they wouldn't win etc.

I always liked Baxter but in the last 2 years he has gone so far down in my estimation I tend to ignore him now.
Premiership Rugby, in my opinion, can fall apart and the quicker the better, they allowed 3 of their teams to disappear without doing anything. And basically prevented them from having any opportunity to regroup.

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Scotland v Italy this Saturday. Anyone know if Paolo may get picked?

Was offered a family of four ticket for 52 quid for this match - RFU take note.

England v Fiji - ?45 for an adult to watch a World Cup warm up match vs a Tier 2 nation. Laughable. Lots of tickets available and doesn't look like they've opened the Upper Tier.

Just under 50k at Murrayfield, even in the 6 nations Italy tickets are a slow seller so for a world cup warm up game that's pretty good.

As an aside, I see Viaplay are in big trouble and pulling out the UK market, not good for the URC

last I saw they were looking to extend their time there to allow the rebuild at their own training ground

I agree, any league where the winner is a foregone conclusion is boring.  I done get the hype around the Premier league in football. Man City are way ahead of the rest and will win again next year.  Interestingly they have also been charged with financial doping, and like Saracens, are likely to get away more or less scot free. And they media just ignore that and continue to fawn over them. 

Football won't suffer if Man City continue to win year after year, the media will see to that and it is more likely to help the lower leagues as proper fans seek proper football.  Rugby doesn't have that luxury,

This is the over riding issue. Teams come and go and dominate, whatever the sport, look at F1, there are many era's where certain teams dominate, people will make boring comments and the fans of said teams will be happy,

the issue with the 2 premier leagues and ships is the fact teams have cheated their way to the top, that being the case people who support the other teams will be very unhappy, a different situation to teams who dominate legally.

Rugby is a mess because of that team cheating and other teams running at their max to try and keep up, I was surprised to hear Irish were closest to the cap in recent years (all be it a soft cap, or flexible if you are sarries). Also the fact they cheated, got found out but still kept their tainted titles, still the media and certain fans think they were hard done by.
Going back to F1, the year Schumacher tried to take out Villeneuve to win the championship, he had his championship finish null and voided, he kept the wins, which were largely fair and square but not his second place in the championship after he tried to cheat his way to the win.