Leicester Tigers

I may be on my own here, but I can see this arrangement as the template for the future. Essentially, a hybrid of the current system and central contracts, with the RFU paying the players fully and directly for the time they’re away rather than the failed “pay part of the cost of access to the player...

Wayne Richardson Fan Club wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:22 pm

Lutontiger wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:54 pm The last few times I’ve been to London St Pancras, the queues for Eurostar were IMMENSE! So suggest you give loads of extra time for boarding . The queues were shorter in the late afternoon.

All down to a certain referendum...

The gift that keeps on giving

I may be wrong, but it looks to me that there are no premiership games over the 6 Nations!!

You’re very welcome!

Scott1 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:53 am Does this mean Martin is definitely in or am I reading too much into it? OK they are different players but one thing they both bring is incredible physicality in the tackle area

At my age, I can only dream of physicality in my tackle area….

Going into the World Cup without a contract already signed for next season would be a very hard nosed, not to say risky, negotiating position. A bad injury and he could easily find himself unemployed and funding his rehab and recovery himself.

While personally, I've done with European competition, I'd be amazed if Tigers did anything to suggest the same. Any press release or team selection with a whiff of "we're not going to bother, because we're not good enough" would surely be unthinkable by the club.

Ok. It’s official. I no longer give a stuff about European Rugby. What a farce!

A few posts suggesting bells and whistles and cheap/giveaway tickets to build long term support. Didn’t work so well at Wasps, did it?

Personally wouldn’t be happy with a British league unless there was a standard salary cap across the board. And some institutions wouldn’t wear that!

9 o’clock local time! I expect everyone will be feeling sorry for those of us who’ll be attending any of those ludicrously scheduled fixtures, poor me…

Where there is already a base, I do think there's an element of build it and they will come. For example, Wasps showed that some support could be drawn out with attractive rugby. Their gates were undoubtedly inflated by marketing, but there must be a few thousand in Coventry missing them. If Cov rug...

ay2oh wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:33 am Presumably all of the central funding and TV money will now be shared between 10 teams instead of 13 so this will give clubs extra income which should make up for losing home games.

And, now that they’ve stopped screening every game, there’s no loss of content.

I’d imagine there are heated discussions going on with Scottish and Richmond. The plan for 10/10 is clearly ripe for bringing in a year early now, but the championship needs a trim for the numbers to work. Sweeney is guilty of sleeping at the wheel, and now has a hell of a job to put something viabl...

Don't you just love Bill Sweeney's comment "The restructuring of the Professional Game Agreement into a strategic partnership provides a great opportunity for all stakeholders to set aside self-interest and collaborate to reset and secure the future long-term sustainable growth of the professi...