The Official Irish Rugby Thread

[Meridian]

Mikey Peaky Blinder has gotten bad news ;

Ireland won’t consider players if they join rebel R360 league as unions set to present united front in major blow to new concept | Irish Independent https://share.google/1p3l0SHJbSPTdGwJf

 

[nelly sham]

Mikey Peaky Blinder has gotten bad news ;

Ireland won’t consider players if they join rebel R360 league as unions set to present united front in major blow to new concept | Irish Independent https://share.google/1p3l0SHJbSPTdGwJf

Absolute jokeshop of a setup. Fuck 'em!

 

[nelly sham]

Doak has quietly left the 20s and been replaced. He's back at Ulster already.

Well managed by Humphreys that, keeping the boys club safe and well.

 

[How bad boy]

Mikey Peaky Blinder has gotten bad news ;

Ireland won’t consider players if they join rebel R360 league as unions set to present united front in major blow to new concept | Irish Independent https://share.google/1p3l0SHJbSPTdGwJf

The IRFU would be insane not to ban players from competing internationally.

There is no way this thing makes any commercial sense, the only way it works is as a promotion vehicle for some dodgy regime.

 

[How bad boy]

English doing the same

RFU ready to ban any male player who joins R360 league from international duty

The Mike Tindall-backed league has private funding but the international players’ union told their members they will not endorse R360

www.theguardian.com

 

[nelly sham]

It's brilliant. Their press release stated "all players will be fully released for international windows".

The Unions replied with "it's OK, keep them"

 

[How bad boy]

It's brilliant. Their press release stated "all players will be fully released for international windows".

The Unions replied with "it's OK, keep them"

You'd want to be properly deluded to think it'd work. Certainly all the Celts, SA, Oz and NZ with regional rugby means they're competitors.
Leaves France and England, and clearly nothing was agreed.

 

[Jukka]

The IRFU would be insane not to ban players from competing internationally.

There is no way this thing makes any commercial sense, the only way it works is as a promotion vehicle for some dodgy regime.

I don't think it's even that.

It's literally just Tindall using royal family status to convince rich stupid people to do stupid things with their money

Very disappointing to see O'Mahony and Murray both going on that cunts podcast.

 

[CaptainSensible]

You'd want to be properly deluded to think it'd work. Certainly all the Celts, SA, Oz and NZ with regional rugby means they're competitors.
Leaves France and England, and clearly nothing was agreed.

To be fair they are not trying to compete regional rugby or even the smaller outposts in England or France. They are not going to Bath to try and lure the 10 thousand or so fans who turn up every second week.

Their concept seems to be we'll base ourselves in major population centres where no one gives a flying fuck about rugby, so their competition is basically a general apathy to rugby, and tbh expecting people to suddenly form a bond with a sport they never cared about is ridiculous.

In one off events this can work as there is a novelty element i.e the recent NFL game in Dublin with 80K people attending maybe half Irish people but a novelty event was all it was, and if there were games in Dublin week in week out ultimately very few Irish people would show up on a continues basis, simply because not enough people care about the game and that is why the above league has no chance of succeeding.

 

[nelly sham]

Let's not forget the real reason here .... free cash into the pockets of the organisers and Tinds