Re: Ulster sides in UBL
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:52 am
Ards cancelling games yet again..
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Ards are potato loving Warren Gatlandmcoty wrote:Ards cancelling games yet again..
I've heard that it was nine, Kofi. Could be wrong though. It does seem as though the club that does nothing to develop kids in rugby and which already has a very large pool of potential players is allowed to have the biggest number of academy players by a long way. Maybe it's all part of the grand plan for world domination.Kofi Annan wrote:Jeezus wept, how many bursaries handed out this yeardublane wrote:could do worse than watch queen's. When released, we have stockdale owens o hagan thompson atkinson and dow from the academy and i think 11 or 12 from the recent Ulster u20 side
Such as?dublane wrote:Haha rocky maybe we should start youth rugby and do a malone picking up players from clubs far and wide.
No AIL club produces all its own players and all clubs benefit from players who have been ‘developed/nurtured’ by other clubs. Queens by its very nature is the most dependent on other clubs/schools in this regard.dublane wrote:Haha rocky maybe we should start youth rugby and do a malone picking up players from clubs far and wide.
Stockdale is not getting a bursary at all, that's a fact. How are we skirting around the issue? bursaries are allowed within the regulations.BuckRogers wrote:Such as?dublane wrote:Haha rocky maybe we should start youth rugby and do a malone picking up players from clubs far and wide.
QUB skirting around the payments issue. Stockdale, for one example, was meant to go to Ballynahinch but was given some sort of bursary I believe. I know of a few other teams that have struggled to compete with Queens' generous terms for top players.
Dub, is it a case of Queens taking advantage of the Regs. It would appear that they are handing out more bursaries than last year' you must agree it looks that waydublane wrote:Stockdale is not getting a bursary at all, that's a fact. How are we skirting around the issue? bursaries are allowed within the regulations.BuckRogers wrote:Such as?dublane wrote:Haha rocky maybe we should start youth rugby and do a malone picking up players from clubs far and wide.
QUB skirting around the payments issue. Stockdale, for one example, was meant to go to Ballynahinch but was given some sort of bursary I believe. I know of a few other teams that have struggled to compete with Queens' generous terms for top players.
"All of the above restrictions apply to university clubs in the same way that they apply to all other IRFU member clubs. The implementation of the Club Sustainability report will change this situation slightly, in that a university (body) will still be able to provide a player with a bona fide Academic bursary or scholarship as a student at that university, but it cannot be awarded by the University Sports Club. However:
The prohibition against the payment of Signing on Money, Retention Money, match fees and win bonuses will apply equally to a university club as to any other club (although the reimbursement of vouched and reasonable expenses to an agreed maximum level will be permitted)
Each university club will still be required to submit to the Union full details of all students receiving a bursary or scholarship before 1st November in each year
This submission will be investigated to ensure that these bursaries / scholarships are issued for valid academic reasons and not to effect or increase payment for play to any player" IRFU regulation 6
As I said let us know after 1st Nov, but I am somewhat comforted by that you can stand over that.I understand it looks that way but there will actually be no more bursaries given out than any other year, there is a cap in place that tthe university wouldn't allow to be stretched.
I agree, he looks like a great fetcher, also a decent footballer, as well as having a niggly aggressive streak! I wonder why he wasn't deemed to have made the grade in the academy? He isn't the tallest, but I'd say he isn't any shorter than for example Willie Faloon or Shane Jennings?Tighty wrote:... And In the 2 Hinch games I have seen this year Pritchard has been the outstanding backrow player on the pitch . An ‘out and out’ 7, who, on his day, is as good as anyone. Could do with being a few inches taller tho'.
Laurie Fisher rates him, sure he can now take the punt and have him at Glaws academyMARB wrote:Have managed to catch a few Ballymena games so far this season. They're looking promising and have recorded some decent results even with being affected due to Ravens call up's.
A real stand out player for me for them has been Tim Small, returned back this year after taking a gap year in Australia where he won highest points scorer for his club and got a call up to the Brumbies U20's as far as I'm aware, quite a small chap (pardon the pun) but really looks the business- think there's a few videos on youtube of him playing for BRFC and in OZ, can't understand why he hasn't even received a Ravens call up.