WRU chickens come home to roost

[Torquemada 1420]

It has been pointed out to me that the Dragons are owned by the WRU and so the least likely to be culled which means merging the Ospreys and Scarlets would be the most likely outcome.

[Torquemada 1420]

double post

[Torquemada 1420]

Recall Warriors at the time were mustard on field, seven Lions and did pretty damn well in the Heineken Cup.

Sad to see them go but reading the off field stuff it sounded like pure farce. WRU royally screwed that one up.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rug ... s-16144528

The Celtic Warriors squad

Full-backs: Gareth Wyatt, Kevin Morgan

Three-quarters: Aisea Havili, Gareth Thomas, Dafydd James, Sonny Parker, Jon Bryant, David Bishop (development contract), Matthew Nutthall (development contract)

Fly-halves: Ceri Sweeney, Neil Jenkins

Scrum-halves: Paul John, Sililo Martens, Gareth Cooper (from Bath)

Props: Gethin Jenkins, Phil Booth, Martin Jones, Chris Horsman, Geraint Morris (development contract)

Hookers: Mefin Davies, Andrew Joy, Matthew Rees

Locks: Robert Sidoli, Brent Cockbain, Deiniol Jones, Ryan Jones

Back rows: Nick Kelly, Richard Parks, Maama Molitika, Nathan Budgett, Richard Bryan, Cory Harris, Mark Lewis (development contract)

Supplementary players: Richard Fussell, Emyr Lewis, Lee Thomas, Shaun James, Tommy Walsh, Gerald Cox, Duane Goodfield, Ian Evans, Jonathan Edwards

Check out how many were discarded entirely: as if Wales could afford to lose so many quality players or coaching expertise.

[lemonhead]

It has been pointed out to me that the Dragons are owned by the WRU and so the least likely to be culled which means merging the Ospreys and Scarlets would be the most likely outcome.

Those estranged rival fans will be just flooding back, hand in hand.

Would be great. We can call the new side Llanelli and play a percentage of games (100%) at Parc y Scarlet. Everybody wins.

[Line6 HXFX]

Everytime. Every single f'king time.
...there is a Post Lions season, there is a national crisis of coaches, players or the regions.
You could set your watch by it.
Wales perform spectacularly badly, post lions, the media get on the teams and Welsh rugby's back, old wounds open up, everyone just have their say..and the thing just barely holds together.


Wales really need to get the fuck out of the Lions tours.
They devastate Welsh Rugby.
We cannot afford another Post Lions Hangover Season.
It is a professional sport, a Business...Wales and the regions has serious competition in the market.., has an extremely hostile RFU client media, has hostile journalists just loving stirring up shit in this period.
Wales hasn't won the six nations in the Pro era, the season after the Lions.
Worse than that though, this is the shit we usually go through, when we do badly.
Post Lions Hangover Seasons are now an existential threat to Welsh Rugby.
Protect the players and coaches, fuck the Lions tours.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

It has been pointed out to me that the Dragons are owned by the WRU and so the least likely to be culled which means merging the Ospreys and Scarlets would be the most likely outcome.

Those estranged rival fans will be just flooding back, hand in hand.

Would be great. We can call the new side Llanelli and play a percentage of games (100%) at Parc y Scarlet. Everybody wins.

I think they'd be least interested in try to sell any stadiums, who do you sell them to, and why write an asset off the books when it's about money. Basically unless a developer has a site in mind then the first to put their head on the block will be anyone who doesn't have a stadium

[Paddington Bear]

They would flock to watch if they were given winning rugby. Well maybe not flock but there’d be more of them.

Exactly !

I watched Leinster in the shed in Donnybrook, & now they're a multiple HEC winning side, & they've only slightly upgraded to a bigger shed; but they did the hard yards & after multiple heartbreaks, they finally won; but even then, they only did so after Munster showed them the way.
Ospreys came closest to the getting together the kind of side that won the Irish sides their European Cups, & it was a pity they couldn't maintain that quality of side, because that was a side you'd be happy to pay to see play, & they got the results, but everything about success is a long term project.

And yet both Cardiff and the Scarlets made it further in the competition.

Thanks to what remains my absolute favourite Sarries victory of all time

[JM2K6]

The Richard Hill at every second ruck game?

[Paddington Bear]

The Richard Hill at every second ruck game?

On one leg, no less

[sockwithaticket]

Exactly !

I watched Leinster in the shed in Donnybrook, & now they're a multiple HEC winning side, & they've only slightly upgraded to a bigger shed; but they did the hard yards & after multiple heartbreaks, they finally won; but even then, they only did so after Munster showed them the way.
Ospreys came closest to the getting together the kind of side that won the Irish sides their European Cups, & it was a pity they couldn't maintain that quality of side, because that was a side you'd be happy to pay to see play, & they got the results, but everything about success is a long term project.

And yet both Cardiff and the Scarlets made it further in the competition.

Thanks to what remains my absolute favourite Sarries victory of all time

Biarritz also pipped them by a point a couple of years later.

All efforts to keep the Hairsprays from success very much appreciated.

[Slick]

Sad news about Phil Bennett incoming it seems

[Kawazaki]

The Richard Hill at every second ruck game?

On one leg, no less

Richard Hill could only play that well because he was being paid too much of course.

[Torquemada 1420]

Sad news about Phil Bennett incoming it seems

:¬(

[lemonhead]

It has been pointed out to me that the Dragons are owned by the WRU and so the least likely to be culled which means merging the Ospreys and Scarlets would be the most likely outcome.

Those estranged rival fans will be just flooding back, hand in hand.

Would be great. We can call the new side Llanelli and play a percentage of games (100%) at Parc y Scarlet. Everybody wins.

I think they'd be least interested in try to sell any stadiums, who do you sell them to, and why write an asset off the books when it's about money. Basically unless a developer has a site in mind then the first to put their head on the block will be anyone who doesn't have a stadium

For sure. Point being unless it's Welsh for 'fire sale' I don't know why you'd call that a merger.

Ospreys get axed, just be upfront about it.