Campaign for Real Rugby?
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Re: Campaign for Real Rugby?
Totally agree, but how can we (fans) undo what the RFU seem bent on doing?
Re: Campaign for Real Rugby?
This is the REAL question. I think we really do need a campaign for real rugby.Artuin wrote:Totally agree, but how can we (fans) undo what the RFU seem bent on doing?
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Re: Campaign for Real Rugby?
I wrote the OP out of screaming frustration, having seen so many quasi-illegal practices, as well as legal ones, that have become the staple of the pro era (e.g. flopping over, bans for shoeing offside blockers etc).
I really don't know where anyone can go from here, as what happens seems to arbitrarily determined by the IRB, an organisation that seems to exist to promote its Al Black love-child (just as ERC promotes Irish interests in the HC). I don't accept that the scrum has gone too far to change; natural selection will reverse the size of forwards etc.
Even if many international figures make the point, they get ignored.
Frankly I despair.
I really don't know where anyone can go from here, as what happens seems to arbitrarily determined by the IRB, an organisation that seems to exist to promote its Al Black love-child (just as ERC promotes Irish interests in the HC). I don't accept that the scrum has gone too far to change; natural selection will reverse the size of forwards etc.
Even if many international figures make the point, they get ignored.
Frankly I despair.
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Re: Campaign for Real Rugby?
jg
I share your frustrations.
It would seem to me that there are two elements at work.
The first is where IRB change (or fiddle with the laws of the game. SPIKE has described how in junior rugby knock ons and forward passes are to be legal and scrums and lineouts abandoned.
The second are occassioned by the referess defacto rewriting the laws of the game through their interpretations (which may be condoned by the IRB and Unions. Blocking, feeding the scrum, and flopping over are still contrary to the laws of the game/
Shopuld we all write to Bill Beaumont (does he still have influence?) or retain B. Moore as our apokesman? (likely he would acr for free!)
I share your frustrations.
It would seem to me that there are two elements at work.
The first is where IRB change (or fiddle with the laws of the game. SPIKE has described how in junior rugby knock ons and forward passes are to be legal and scrums and lineouts abandoned.
The second are occassioned by the referess defacto rewriting the laws of the game through their interpretations (which may be condoned by the IRB and Unions. Blocking, feeding the scrum, and flopping over are still contrary to the laws of the game/
Shopuld we all write to Bill Beaumont (does he still have influence?) or retain B. Moore as our apokesman? (likely he would acr for free!)
Still keeping the faith!
Re: Campaign for Real Rugby?
If what I've read in this post is true - of which I have no doubt as it sounds utterly plausible given the current shambolic state of the RFU - I can't wait to watch our current U9's play SANZAR U9's in 15 years time! 