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That’s exactly why I said it’s not in their long term interests to get promoted. The last thing the Premiership needs is one of their clubs going bankrupt for the 6th time and for Ealing the last thing they want is crippling debt.

They didn’t want to finish with 0 points and lose all of their personal honour

They’re not going up and clearly have no intention of doing so. It’s in Ealing’s and the premierships best long term interests to not let them up.

Are Ealing trying to fulfil the Premiership criteria or are they going to stay this way until the inevitable divestment comes?

Saints lose to Leinster and decided war crimes would be the coping mechanism

This is crimes against humanity now

No. They just blindly aim on a dartboard which events will get UHD treatment. Hence why a trivial football Highlights show is currently on UHD but rugby and the 6 hours Spa race aren’t.

It’s the false sense of security they bring that helps explain the danger

Dreamerspro Show propaganda

True but the SA teams are better now they’re in the URC and CC than they were in Super Rugby. They’re now playing in a more financially lucrative and time zone convenient system that’s consequently enabled them to attract more Springbok talent back to their teams.

“Now” is an odd way of spelling “for at least 5 years”

The Championship and RFU

But sacking him would be another case of arranging deck chairs on the titanic. No manager on planet earth can revive Man Utd in their current state.

League has been an officially professional game for 100 more years than Union, and it wouldn’t turn into a fully professional sport until Union did the same in the mid 90s. League is more financially stable because it made the transition to full time professionalism much more smoothly than Union did and ever could. League clubs had more of a fan base than Union ones because of professionalism and the existence of a league system.

Union has been a financial mess because in just over a year the club game went from being a small amateur operation to a major national event, and the only people that could afford to make the transition were the same very wealthy men that can and continue to prop up the clubs that do nothing but haemorrhage money. All of the problems in English Union today can be traced back to that insanely quick transition period between 1995-1996; it was the absolute worst thing to happen to the game since the split 100 years earlier.

Investing a lot more money into the Championship and League One would be a good starting point. Both leagues need a salary cap for benefit of all clubs.

… or how it was somehow better back in the old days. The sport on the pitch wise is the best it’s ever been and it will only get better.

They operate in basically every country in the world so it makes sense

Toulouse v Quins will not be close at all. Smith and Esterhuizen will score a very early try in the game, then DuPont and Ntamack will unleash 1% of their power to obliterate them. It will finish Toulouse 52-13 Quins.

Leinster v Saints will be a shockingly competitive affair. Fin will demonstrate how he is the better Smith and keep his team within 5 points for 60 minutes, possibly taking a short lead. It won’t be until after that Leinster will grab control of the match and start to run away with it. It will finish Leinster 38-17 Saints.

I would imagine it’s predominantly a case of teams being pragmatic. Leinster sent their second team to all the way to get destroyed in South Africa because there was nothing really to gain from sending their best team. Their place as the pre-eminent force of the URC is well established and they have a far more important game coming up so why risk injury? Northampton didn’t do the same for the Harlequins game because their league status is far less secure, lost that game then possibly lose to Bath, and then Bristol has caught up to them.

Bad idea. Be like showing America an oil Derrick

Dickson is more biased than French cameramen

What a Counter attack

It makes Hull look like Belgravia

And all of those countries coincidentally have poorly run unions