Leicester Tigers

Will be a massive bonus if we make the play offs IMO.

This is a certainly a one game at a time scenario.

One good thing is a don't think we have too many distractions/players out.

Not going into the end of season with high expectations but just hoping for the best.

So the English Prem is in dire straits and yet we have 2 semi finalists

I hold no torch for Ealing but I am surprised at the question given what I've always read.

Is there any real evidence to say that they would turn it down were it on the table?

Is this part of their victim narrative too

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/rugby/ ... n%20London.

This club statement would suggest they do

https://www.ealingtrailfinders.com/news ... -standards

Ashurstwoodtiger wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:54 pm Just had a thought one of the problems with promotion for Champinship Clubs is ground size, not supporter size.

Is it?

What evidence is there for that?

Have Bayonne been expelled from the League

World Rugby reveals radical plans to speed up sport and broaden its appeal

Lot to digest here:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/ ... den-appeal

Article on our George

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68567305

His nickname is Lenny and he told Rugby World: “I wish I had a story for it but I’m the youngest of 28 first cousins and we all have the same sort of nickname – Benny became Lenny and it stuck. Everyone calls me that now.”

Sadly but realistically it's hard to see anything but an Ireland romp.

England are no mugs and it's sport. Bit of luck here and there, maybe a red card for Ireland (although they are generally very discipled, maybe we'll click.

Other two games much more interesting though tbh.

Not sure what people expect from such an interview. Season ticket wise: stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they put them up after Covid there would be an uproar. So they've held off and now other things have made it even more challenging - so they've bitten the bullet. Will be challenging ini...

Non paywall version of the article

https://archive.ph/sZ2DQ

TBH, it just seems like a long moan.

Here is the article:

https://archive.ph/RCXEQ

It is worth a read from several angles.

Worth noting a similarity in the regionality of rugby in France and the make of the clubs in the League. I posted this in 2021: Yes, La Rochelle is clearly the Top 14 team with the lowest number of actual local players - although they are home to one Elissalde family, so it's not like no rugbyman wa...