I reckon most will be pretty chilled and excited at the same time by this.ellis9 wrote:That's why I said the clubs obviously have a valid reason for doing it but as a fan, I cannot see either teams fans being happy about it. Why would you want your club to join a rival and become one club and become a fellow supporter of the same club when they used to be a rival fan.
Also, this either becomes 1 new club meaning the history of both is tarnished or they play under the bane of one of the current names e.g. They will be called Stade Francais
Just thinking about it makes me cringe!
Rugby is still a little old school in France.
If you have never been on a 6N weekend then try it as it is great fun, even if France aren't at home you can find a bar full of rugby mad supporters of all sorts lapping it all up.
It depends on your personal definition of rivalry to be honest, they are not really rivals as many of us might expect and certainly not in the soccer sense.
They are more like different characters in a stage version of fight club, the stage being the pitch of course, but off it you wouldn't know!
You are probably right though in that there will be some who will not be happy about it though, didn't stop Wasps did it!