Ulster rugby has been a huge part of my life. My dad took me to the inter-pros in the 80s. I live in England now and watching the game on tv is a chance for me to reconnect with my team, my country and my childhood. I've gone to most of Ulster's away games in england and wales over the last few years.
I'm disgusted at the way this has been handled. There was a real chance for rehabilitation and learning to take place.
I think the only thing that will speak volumes is an empty stadium. I'll watch the first few minutes on tv to see what happens but I'll switch off after that. I'm sorry to say that I'm so disappointed in Ulster rugby that I just can't be arsed with it all anymore. Will need to find a team in England to follow. Sad times. Good luck with the protest.
Roidster, scarily I could have written your post about me. I’ll not be chasing them round the mainland much next season and I certainly won’t be paying that PremierTVSportballixwhatever either to watch.
I believe that there is a Club or Branch Comittee meeting this Tuesday, any member of a club should be asking for their rep to put forward a vote of no confidence in CEO
Think a boycott is the simplest and clearest message we can send to IRFU. They have destroyed their cash cow, a club with not far off a free stadium and from Logan to Kiss to Ruan to the boys they have destroyed it. Shame on them.
useless mess wrote:It has to be a boycott. All this talk of dance in backwards or put sequins over the BoI logo or whatever is nonsense.
Those lads didn't grow up wanting to be employed by Ulster Rugby Inc. They grew up wanting to play for Ulster, a team that represented a community and was more than a brand. The enduring love we've all had for the team is surely rooted in the fact that the game is more than just a product to us.
People have made the calculation that our love of the game and desire to support the remaining players will drive us through those gates no matter what they do.
When the money men came Ruan told them no, because of loyalty. A loyalty which was never repaid, a loyalty which I doubt the financial decision makers even understand.
Now two fellas who've trained their whole lives to represent their province get exiled over unsavoury private texts.
In my opinion anyone returning to that ground is a collaborator.
100% agree
The red hand means a lot more than Ulstet Rugby Inc and a hell of a lot more than D4 understand
They've torn this community apart and this has been facilitated by Logan Browne et al
I will continue to support grass roots Ulster Rugby but for now my love of the professional team is dead
Is wish the players all the best. Some of them don't deserve us fans walking away but ot has to be done
Indeed, they seem determined to turn us into a financial basket case like Munster. Thank god we don't have anyone on the books who has sent a dodgy private message. I've written worse than what they did, so don't think I'm welcome.
Gerald the Mole wrote:I believe that there is a Club or Branch Comittee meeting this Tuesday, any member of a club should be asking for their rep to put forward a vote of no confidence in CEO
The current petition should call for a vote on confidence amongst supporters and it should reach beyond the South Belfast II issue because this man is just a problem..
I hope that some rep or better still some club asks its rep to put forward what is the view of that club.. Build the pressure he must go.
The audacity of anyone else who proclaims never to have written a private sexist/racist/sectarian/ageist/objectifying comment in jest is what really sticks in my throat. The red mist has descended in the office so many times in recent weeks when trying to talk sense on the subject. And the look you get when you admit to saying that you of course have done it in the past....
Had my first go at the nameless, unidentifiable righteous on Twitter for the first time yesterday, couldn't hold it in any longer, only to be of course tarred with the misogynist moniker.
We're all fecked.
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"You have to find to find your own solace - your own drive, your own ambition, your own inner strength; for the greatest game of your f**king life." Jim Telfer, 1st Test, Lions Tour 1997
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