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by TomWeston
Wed Oct 02, 2013 4:41 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

Too many inaccuracies to reply to each, but here’s how I see it. Posters, irrespective of their position, are simply stating and restating, ad nauseam, the same old partisan lines that are being trotted out in the press, full of inaccuracies and half-truths. As an opinion, and in disregard of what ...
by TomWeston
Wed Oct 02, 2013 4:00 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

Yeah it's interesting how someone, who is obviously trusted and respected by the blazers at the RFU and has been welcomed with open arms by them onto the RWC board, who would in most other circumstances be labelled as 'another blazer with their snout in the trough' suddenly becomes the purveyor of ...
by TomWeston
Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:57 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

I agree utterly, dispels all myths & proves that PRL are on the side of the angels ........................... always assuming you completely engage a willingness to believe that everything stated is the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth. Well, that and the fact that, you need h...
by TomWeston
Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:43 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

tigerburnie wrote:http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugb ... ns-6122571

This rather dispells a lot of myths.
Doesn't it just! All that Celtitalian supposition dealt with, not that they will change their views.
by TomWeston
Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:37 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

Equally, you have to accept that signing a TV deal with BT a year ago means thatt the PRL clubs were no longer committed to negotiation 12 months ago and all of their pronouncements about being committed to it since then were just bluster. In other words just after they handed in their notice. So t...
by TomWeston
Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:39 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

A view from welsh legend John Taylor http://www.espn.co.uk/heineken-cup-2013-14/rugby/story/200391.html Wise words, from someone who is not only a proud Celt but was once a PRL insider. They are wise words, but only if you accept the PRL line as gospel. He is correct in that ERC were slack and prob...
by TomWeston
Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:39 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Terrace at High Wycombe
Replies: 8
Views: 1936

Re: Terrace at High Wycombe

Banburytigers wrote:Yes it is a terrace with leaning posts, you won't be able to create the Crumbie atompshere though, as its normally half full!!!

All under 'half'!
by TomWeston
Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:38 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

SouthMunster wrote:
"We could be in engineering or pharmaceuticals, all we want to do is run a business."
So says Nigel Wray. And to the IRB he says:
"Sorry Mr Gosper, but it's none of your business."
Do you get his drift?
It's a business, and restraint of trade laws will apply.
by TomWeston
Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:36 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
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Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

re the scrum question, yes I was serious and we do get the BT feed. I think it’s a move forward, but not the finished article yet. Tigers have been a team with massive front rows of brick built props. Are they a thing of the past with no 'hit' on the engage? Excuse me for doubting you but I thought...
by TomWeston
Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:49 am
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

drc_007 wrote:A view from welsh legend John Taylor

http://www.espn.co.uk/heineken-cup-2013 ... 00391.html
Wise words, from someone who is not only a proud Celt but was once a PRL insider.
by TomWeston
Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:43 am
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

"snipewatson Anyway on a Rugby note, how are the new scrum laws going down at Welford Road?" Not sure if that was tongue in cheek or if you can get BT sport through the SKY medium in Ulster, but from the Exeter match it seems that if the scrum is refereed fairly, Tigers are learning how to...
by TomWeston
Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:20 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

"Baggy Trousers Frankly, though he is clearly a man who has made a few quid, in rugby terms I wouldn't trust him to know the right way round to sit on a toilet." Nigel Wray made his money by being hard-nosed in business. Sorries is another of his businesses, even though you might use that ...
by TomWeston
Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:57 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
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Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

So you can rest players during the season and save enough of their 2400 minutes to rest them again in the build up to Heineken cup games. Its not so much about resting/rotating players, its when you are able to do it, without screwing up your chances of qualifying for next seasons European competit...
by TomWeston
Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:05 am
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution
Replies: 1760
Views: 208724

Re: Heineken Cup no nearer a resolution

Whether you agree with their position or believe what they are saying, ERC maintain that they are open to negotiation and change. Belatedly. Premiership Rugby on the other hand and regardless of whether you think they are right are the ones who are not prepared to negotiate and are dictating the wa...
by TomWeston
Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:27 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Tigers v Exeter
Replies: 30
Views: 6408

Re: Tigers v Exeter

If Tait is fit he has to start. I know you could argue that he hasn't had much game time but he has so much more experience when compared to Scully (can't really compare circa 40 caps (including a WC final against playing 1 AP game and a bit of sevens). Scully will be a good player but not in the s...