wardy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:09 pm
It may be the Heiniken Rugby Cup but it's organised by a European organisation, EPCR who call their secondary competition the European Challenge Cup. So it's a NO from me. It's akin to allowing Australia into the Eurovision Song Contest!
What do you enjoy more, good rugby or organisations being correctly named to reflect their precise geographical reach?
If it's the latter, the international Sevens tour must make you really angry - allowing non Hong Kong teams into the Hong Kong 7s? Madness.
It's called the Heineken Champions Cup, and no one seems to mind that most of the participants are not champions. Or that there's no Heineken man wandering the stands any more...
No unless plate tectonics have overnight and unnoticed radically changed the continents. Absolute farce They could of course front up and change the thing to European and South African cup.
Either it's the European Cup of it's not.
Last I heard South Africa is not in Europe.
To be honest in it's current format it is set to lose a lot of its fan base. Has been a hard watch with the Irish Development squads over the past few years.
Personally I'd rather watch the league and would prefer to see the current low value cup becoming the main cup competition for the Premiership.
wardy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:09 pm
It may be the Heiniken Rugby Cup but it's organised by a European organisation, EPCR who call their secondary competition the European Challenge Cup. So it's a NO from me. It's akin to allowing Australia into the Eurovision Song Contest!
What do you enjoy more, good rugby or organisations being correctly named to reflect their precise geographical reach?
If it's the latter, the international Sevens tour must make you really angry - allowing non Hong Kong teams into the Hong Kong 7s? Madness.
It's called the Heineken Champions Cup, and no one seems to mind that most of the participants are not champions. Or that there's no Heineken man wandering the stands any more...
Bit like a mallard, looks like a duck, sounds like a duck and walks like a duck...it's still a duck
wardy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:09 pm
It may be the Heiniken Rugby Cup but it's organised by a European organisation, EPCR who call their secondary competition the European Challenge Cup. So it's a NO from me. It's akin to allowing Australia into the Eurovision Song Contest!
What do you enjoy more, good rugby or organisations being correctly named to reflect their precise geographical reach?
If it's the latter, the international Sevens tour must make you really angry - allowing non Hong Kong teams into the Hong Kong 7s? Madness.
It's called the Heineken Champions Cup, and no one seems to mind that most of the participants are not champions. Or that there's no Heineken man wandering the stands any more...
Bit like a mallard, looks like a duck, sounds like a duck and walks like a duck...it's still a duck
Ah good point BUT a duck doesn't travel at 126mph!!! Mallard did!
mol2 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:30 pm
Either it's the European Cup of it's not.
Last I heard South Africa is not in Europe.
To be honest in it's current format it is set to lose a lot of its fan base. Has been a hard watch with the Irish Development squads over the past few years.
Personally I'd rather watch the league and would prefer to see the current low value cup becoming the main cup competition for the Premiership.
Including Oz in Eurovision has worked out quite well, of course, since the 'contest' is, at heart, a bit of fun for most viewers and contestants who care nothing for the vast amounts of money or the pasted-on politics that others seem more concerned about.
What do you enjoy more, good rugby or organisations being correctly named to reflect their precise geographical reach?
If it's the latter, the international Sevens tour must make you really angry - allowing non Hong Kong teams into the Hong Kong 7s? Madness.
It's called the Heineken Champions Cup, and no one seems to mind that most of the participants are not champions. Or that there's no Heineken man wandering the stands any more...
Bit like a mallard, looks like a duck, sounds like a duck and walks like a duck...it's still a duck
Ah good point BUT a duck doesn't travel at 126mph!!! Mallard did!
You have me Sir. Upon my sword I must fall. Adieu xx