New Zealand 2 will deal a massive blow to NZ rugby

[Gobsmacked]

Missed this, and it's a doozy. You're f**king clueless lol.

Let me give you a hand-https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/rankings/mru

Two more Premiership clubs in trouble as league's debt topples £500m - Ruck

Wasps legends Lawrence Dallaglio and Kenny Logan have revealed that two more Premiership clubs are in deep trouble after both Wasps and Worcester were suspended by the RFU. The club…

www.ruck.co.uk

 

[Gobsmacked]

Missed this, and it's a doozy. You're f**king clueless lol.

Let me give you a hand-https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/rankings/mru

English rugby clubs ‘heading for disaster’ after mounting £300m in debts

Harlequins and London Irish are two clubs noted as being particularly concerning

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Wb1234]

Two more Premiership clubs in trouble as league's debt topples £500m - Ruck

Wasps legends Lawrence Dallaglio and Kenny Logan have revealed that two more Premiership clubs are in deep trouble after both Wasps and Worcester were suspended by the RFU. The club…

www.ruck.co.uk

The average union club in England loses 5 million pounds pa

they owe the tax man tens of millions pounds of unpaid covid loans

Trying to compete with France bankrupted them lol

 

[Pippen94]

General knowledge question ……

Which rugby code had the first World Cup ?

And how many years before the other was it

First rugby world cup was 1987.
League maybe 50's?!

 

[Gobsmacked]

Missed this, and it's a doozy. You're f**king clueless lol.

Let me give you a hand-https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/rankings/mru

It's not much better for Wales

The stark financial future for Welsh regions as new WRU funding deal revealed

It would see regional benefactors having to plough £25m of their money into the regions with big cuts in squad budgets

www.walesonline.co.uk

 

[Wb1234]

First rugby world cup was 1987.
League maybe 50's?!

ours was actually called the rugby World Cup

 

[Gobsmacked]

Missed this, and it's a doozy. You're f**king clueless lol.

Let me give you a hand-https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/rankings/mru

And Fiji needing emergency financial assistance

IRB cuts funding to Fijian rugby due to concerns over its financial reporting and governance

All funding cut to Fiji rugby

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Pippen94]

And Fiji needing emergency financial assistance

IRB cuts funding to Fijian rugby due to concerns over its financial reporting and governance

All funding cut to Fiji rugby

www.foxsports.com.au

Fiji is becoming league territory

 

[Wb1234]

And Fiji needing emergency financial assistance

IRB cuts funding to Fijian rugby due to concerns over its financial reporting and governance

All funding cut to Fiji rugby

www.foxsports.com.au

Hahahaha

gobs
has
Gone



NUCLEAR

 

[Gobsmacked]

Hahahaha

gobs
has
Gone



NUCLEAR

Where did the great novel about nothing go ?

 

[Wb1234]

Where did the great novel about nothing go ?

He’s in the bunker waiting for the fallout to clear

 

[The Great Dane]

That's right Rugby league has pick the best pacific island talent.
Fiji, Samoa, Tonga have all fallen off the international Union map, Australia is and on this trajectory if the NRL plays their cards right so will NZ.

Union are about to loose the entire pacific.

Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga haven't fallen off, they were just incapable of keeping up with the growth in other nations because they're tiny, impoverished, third world countries whom can't compete with size and resources of some of the other nations. In other words they're not getting worse, Japan, Argentina, the home nations, Gorgia, Italy, etc, are getting better.

The only thing you could actively do to make them more competitive would be to further bastardise the eligibility rules to them even more like RL's, but that would directly impact the Wallabies and All Blacks, they're both more valuable to WR than the PI's.

And despite your ignorance, RU is in massive trouble in England! 2 of their oldest proudest clubs just went bankrupt and there's 2 more close!
An equivalent would be Souths and Parramatta just folded and the Raiders and Newcastle are on the brink. That's where Union is domestically atm

RU's current struggles in England are irrelevant from the point at hand, they're also largely a result of bad private equity deals. Will English RU take a hit for the foreseeable future; sure. Will they need to restructure to make sure they don't make the same mistakes again; definitely. Will it kill or cripple them anymore than they already are over the long term; no, it won't even drop them to RL's level in England.

I wasn't ignorant of them either, I addressed them in the post you were too lazy to read...

All these comps in Union can fail and the international scene will still be fine because they're all equally shit.

League One, Top 14, the URC, etc, aren't going to fail anytime soon...

 

[Wb1234]

Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga haven't fallen off, they were just incapable of keeping up with the growth in other nations because they're tiny, impoverished, third world countries whom can't compete with size and resources of some of the other nations. In other words they're not getting worse, Japan, Argentina, the home nations, Gorgia, Italy, etc, are getting better.

The only thing you could actively do to make them more competitive would be to further bastardise the eligibility rules to them even more like RL's, but that would directly impact the Wallabies and All Blacks, they're both more valuable to WR than the PI's.

RU's current struggles in England are irrelevant from the point at hand, they're also largely a result of bad private equity deals. Will English RU take a hit for the foreseeable future; sure. Will they need to restructure to make sure they don't make the same mistakes again; definitely. Will it kill or cripple them anymore than they already are over the long term; no, it won't even drop them to RL's level in England.

I wasn't ignorant of them either, I addressed them in the post you were too lazy to read...

League One, Top 14, the URC, etc, aren't going to fail anytime soon...

He’s just shown you wales is struggling badly

wales are In top 14 aren’t they ?

 

[Perth Red]

How has this thread descended from a discussion on nz2 as next expansion club to a typical sht fight club thread about rl v another sport? Take it to fight club if you want to heap shit on other sports. Well done to gobsmacked though, created a troll thread and surprise surprise ended up full of trolls.

 

[Te Kaha]

And Fiji needing emergency financial assistance

IRB cuts funding to Fijian rugby due to concerns over its financial reporting and governance

All funding cut to Fiji rugby

www.foxsports.com.au

Geezes you're full of shit. That was 2014 you moron. That has been sorted years ago.

And more importantly, there is a professional game this weekend in Fiji that will be better supported, better attended, and have more viewers in Fiji than any League game.

 

[The Great Dane]

Hahahaha

gobs
has
Gone



NUCLEAR

All he's done is dumped a bunch of red herrings to try and distract from the actual argument.

Everything he's linked is irrelevant to RU's standings in the PI's, and what impact losing them would have on RU as a whole.

 

[Gobsmacked]

I write too much ru

Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga haven't fallen off, they were just incapable of keeping up with the growth in other nations because they're tiny, impoverished, third world countries whom can't compete with size and resources of some of the other nations. In other words they're not getting worse, Japan, Argentina, the home nations, Gorgia, Italy, etc, are getting better.

The only thing you could actively do to make them more competitive would be to further bastardise the eligibility rules to them even more like RL's, but that would directly impact the Wallabies and All Blacks, they're both more valuable to WR than the PI's.

RU's current struggles in England are irrelevant from the point at hand, they're also largely a result of bad private equity deals. Will English RU take a hit for the foreseeable future; sure. Will they need to restructure to make sure they don't make the same mistakes again; definitely. Will it kill or cripple them anymore than they already are over the long term; no, it won't even drop them to RL's level in England.

I wasn't ignorant of them either, I addressed them in the post you were too lazy to read...

League One, Top 14, the URC, etc, aren't going to fail anytime soon...

You write too much rubbish.
rugby league is off to a cracking start in England

Amazing weekend for attendances in Super League - Serious About Rugby League

Super League Round Two has already been and gone and it was another fantastic weekend of action. It all started at the AJ Bell Stadium as Salford Red Devils hosted Hull KR in an interesting clash between two entertaining sides who started the season with a win. The Red Devils had the better of...

www.seriousaboutrl.com

Meanwhile in Union clubs are folding and begging for cash.

But sure , rattle off a bunch of countries that are now competitive because the top has fallen so far..

 

[Gobsmacked]

All he's done is dumped a bunch of red herrings to try and distract from the actual argument.

Everything he's linked is irrelevant to RU's standings in the PI's, and what impact losing them would have on RU as a whole.

You outed yourself as another dumb Union tragic.
This thread has been great for exposing Union losers looking for a chink in the armour. Sadly it just exposes time and time again the fragility of Union.

 

[The Great Dane]

He’s just shown you wales is struggling badly

wales are In top 14 aren’t they ?

No, there aren't any Welsh teams in the French national RU competition... They're in the URC.

Welsh Rugby isn't struggling anywhere near as badly as he's making out. The pandemic hit them particularly hard because the Welsh government were particularly tough during the pandemic (they went crazy authoritarian frankly, to the point that Westminster should be deeply concerned), but they're out the other side now.

 

[The Great Dane]

I write too much ru

You write too much rubbish.
rugby league is off to a cracking start in England

Amazing weekend for attendances in Super League - Serious About Rugby League

Super League Round Two has already been and gone and it was another fantastic weekend of action. It all started at the AJ Bell Stadium as Salford Red Devils hosted Hull KR in an interesting clash between two entertaining sides who started the season with a win. The Red Devils had the better of...

www.seriousaboutrl.com

Meanwhile in Union clubs are folding and begging for cash.

But sure , rattle off a bunch of countries that are now competitive because the top has fallen so far..

You mean how RL clubs were begging for cash until they got IMG onboard. . . Let's see how long that last before they balls it up like they did the News money...

You've got a terrible case of the Dunning-Kruger effect when it comes to Union, and that's been demonstrated multiple times throughout this discussion.

You outed yourself as another dumb Union tragic.
This thread has been great for exposing Union losers looking for a chink in the armour. Sadly it just exposes time and time again the fragility of Union.

You know, being informed and honest about other sports doesn't necessarily make you a fan of their's anymore than reading Das Kapital or Mein Kampf makes you a communist or a Nazi.