Big World of Rugby

[solidarity]

All not well financially at Twickers? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/artic ... %20created.
Does it look like a restructuring that's moving cash away from administrators etc to players?

Towards the end it's talking about that big money Middle East deal again.

[justinr73]

The Scots turning their back on one of their own here…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... gl4zpklxgo

[Neill_M]

The Scots turning their back on one of their own here…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... gl4zpklxgo

Scottish Rugby doing Scottish Rugby things, one of the other candidates must have offered a big bag of gold.

[volvo]

Weren't they the only home nation that voted against Ireland's bid for World Cup?

[Neill_M]

Weren't they the only home nation that voted against Ireland's bid for World Cup?

No Wales also did, BUT the Scots did for it for cash and a couple of RWC Warm Up games v France. The WRU Chairman or similar was chair of the committee to assess the bids and promised to back the bid which was judged best by the experts etc which was South Africa.

[volvo]

Stand corrected! Thanks Neil they still did it for a bag of gold

[Jetstream]

Stand corrected! Thanks Neil they still did it for a bag of gold

In 1972 Scotland and Wales refused to travel to Dublin for their matches. England had no problem coming the following year.
English Rugby has always been a better friend to us.

[solidarity]

Stand corrected! Thanks Neil they still did it for a bag of gold

In 1972 Scotland and Wales refused to travel to Dublin for their matches. England had no problem coming the following year.
English Rugby has always been a better friend to us.

Indeed they did. I think they may even have got a rousing cheer when they ran out.

[big mervyn]

Stand corrected! Thanks Neil they still did it for a bag of gold

In 1972 Scotland and Wales refused to travel to Dublin for their matches. England had no problem coming the following year.
English Rugby has always been a better friend to us.

"the following year" is not insignificant.

1972 was by far the worst year of the troubles with a staggering 480 fatalities.

By 1973 that figure had dropped to 255, and while still appalling, indicates that some small measures of control had been exerted.

I'd put my house on none of them coming now if that level of civil unrest existed.

[solidarity]

72 and 73 were part of the 1971-1976 period, the worst of the troubles but interestingly, the only years in which the per capita murder rates in NI have ever been worse than in the USA.

I think you're right, Merv. Certainly no-one would come to Belfast and UR would be playing all of our home games in Cardiff or Glasgow. I've a feeling that NI football fans had to travel to 'home' games in the early 70's.