Look it’s understandable that you think this is all about logic. But that’s never true and certainly not in this case.kermischocolate wrote:Or, as per the BBC article already linked the SRU did exactly what they said from the very beginning- backed the bid that would guarantee most money to all World Rugby nations.
The RWC is the thing that generates most income for the rest of rugby world-wide. How do you think World Rugby fund any form of "growing the game?" (how well they do that is a completely different debate)
Ireland really need to go back and look at the bid and why it failed on a technical level before flinging toys out of prams and blaming everyone else but themselves.
Gordon D'Arcy did a pretty good job of that 2 weeks ago....https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/ ... -1.3275818.
Rightly or wrongly; naively or reasonably Ireland did expect support from its Celtic League partners.
The fact that the Irish bid- like both of the others had weaknesses, is not the issue. The SRU and WRU made a decision for reasons that make sense to them- but don’t convince many of us here, as being justified, based on the whole of our supposed close association and shared interests.
Now we will undoubtedly, in a certain period, get over the immediate disappointment and bitterness, but don’t think that our view of the relationship with our ‘fellow’ Celtic Unions will be unaffected. This mattered a lot to us and we didn’t get support from those we (maybe foolishly) considered our natural allies.
Combined with the weak-at best; even treacherous to many eyes, behaviour of the other Celtic clubs and unions during the destruction of the ERC, we will need a lot of persuasion to trust either party on an important issue again. And you know there will be one that matters to both Scotland and Wales more than Ireland. Now logic or not- that will stress test a relationship!
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