New Euro competition

[simonokeeffe]

hopefully Welsh central deals will steady the ship there and improve competitiveness of Welsh sides in Pro12, Italians will continue to invest in Zebre and Glasgow stay strong. Connacht on an upward curve and hey we could have a competitive league again in a couple of years.

There's shag all in that Welsh deal money wise. Also can't see the point of dual contracts. I fully expect the Welsh to continue on the path they were on last year.

theres a bit more money but theres also agreement on overseas players, more incentives for internationals to stay etc

[footrush]

Still no sign of dates for Quins and Wasps away, can't make either of the games if they are on Fri night so have rolled the dice and booked two red eyes to Stanstead on the saturdays, 20 euro each worth the gamble .

[Peg Leg]

Anyone seen the tacky London 2015 graphic? The "O" in London is the big wheel and the "1" in 2015 is a bottle. Embarrassing effort.

[Peg Leg]

PRL upped the salary cap by 100k and have allowed each team to ignore the salary cap for 2 marquee signings per team. No mention of after dinner speech fees.

[Peg Leg]

While I'm at it, think it from the English Indo but in a premiership season preview they spoke to all the team captains to get their input as to what they want for the season. Most of which said, make the fans happy, score a super try, less scrums/more scrums, but the sarries man had a different agenda: remove the salary cap.

[blockhead]

http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/c ... 98355.html

It is understood however, that no sponsorship deals have yet been ratified, despite the tournament starting when Harlequins host Castres at The Stoop on October 17.

Competition planning is now at least two months behind regular schedule.

The new body has had to outsource the running of the Champions Cup back to Dublin-based ERC this season however.

EPCR bosses were left red-faced after failing to compose a new body of staff in their new Neuchatel base in time to assume total tournament governance for the 2014/15 campaign.

Well, well, well. Mark McCalamity.

[simonokeeffe]

PRL upped the salary cap by 100k and have allowed each team to ignore the salary cap for 2 marquee signings per team. No mention of after dinner speech fees.

no mention of duking the marquee players and effectively taking 6 players out with it by saying oh look 90% of your wages are in year two or three

[rooster]

PRL upped the salary cap by 100k and have allowed each team to ignore the salary cap for 2 marquee signings per team. No mention of after dinner speech fees.

no mention of duking the marquee players and effectively taking 6 players out with it by saying oh look 90% of your wages are in year two or three

All a figment of your imagination simon
The English have got so arrogant recently that they have used the symbol for The Victoria Cross on their shirt, I wonder how this list of soldiers would react to the highest military honour being associated with the English rugby team ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ir ... recipients additionally there are the Northern Irish, Scots and Welsh

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/i ... -1.1929480

[simonokeeffe]

PRL upped the salary cap by 100k and have allowed each team to ignore the salary cap for 2 marquee signings per team. No mention of after dinner speech fees.

no mention of duking the marquee players and effectively taking 6 players out with it by saying oh look 90% of your wages are in year two or three

All a figment of your imagination simon
The English have got so arrogant recently that they have used the symbol for The Victoria Cross on their shirt, I wonder how this list of soldiers would react to the highest military honour being associated with the English rugby team ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ir ... recipients additionally there are the Northern Irish, Scots and Welsh

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/i ... -1.1929480

have to point out first soldier and sailor to win VC were both Irish

and in further avarice Wasps are going to play euro/big games in Coventry, because thats near London

[Vamos los azules]

The English have got so arrogant recently that they have used the symbol for The Victoria Cross on their shirt, I wonder how this list of soldiers would react to the highest military honour being associated with the English rugby team ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ir ... recipients additionally there are the Northern Irish, Scots and Welsh

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/i ... -1.1929480

I'd be a bit careful about how you refer to "the English" there, tarring everyone with the same brush, as there are a not insignificant number of English fans who are disgusted by it, hence the need for the RFU to back peddle rapidly and issue an apology on the day it was released. Goodness knows what clown thought it was a good idea.

[Hornet]

have to point out first soldier and sailor to win VC were both Irish

and in further avarice Wasps are going to play euro/big games in Coventry, because thats near London

How to lose fans and p1$$ off people.

http://www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 253,page=2
http://www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 8,14896831

[simonokeeffe]

have to point out first soldier and sailor to win VC were both Irish

and in further avarice Wasps are going to play euro/big games in Coventry, because thats near London

How to lose fans and p1$$ off people.

http://www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 253,page=2
http://www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 8,14896831

who needs fans (in attendance) when you have BT TV money

all the more fans for London irish and Quinns so

[domhnallj]

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/i ... -1.1929480

The RFU have a team of historians

It's all getting very jingoistic with Lancaster these days.

[Donny B.]

The Heineken Cup is dead.....all hail the "Nothing" Cup.

[rooster]

The Heineken Cup is dead.....all hail the "Nothing" Cup.

Might still be called The Heineken Cup if they don't find a few more sponsors

[ribs]

So why exactly do we care how leinster do in this competition?

[rooster]

So why exactly do we care how leinster do in this competition?

Well if the PRO12 sides all get knocked out during the pool stages then the PRL w&%kers who stirred the hornets nest will say they were correct all along and we only ever did well in it because we rested players for the HEC

[simonokeeffe]

So why exactly do we care how leinster do in this competition?

Well if the PRO12 sides all get knocked out during the pool stages then the PRL w&%kers who stirred the hornets nest will say they were correct all along and we only ever did well in it because we rested players for the HEC

looking at pools it could very easily only be Leinster from Pro 12 who get past group stages

At best only Irish sides, much as it ever was

[paddyor]

So why exactly do we care how leinster do in this competition?

Well if the PRO12 sides all get knocked out during the pool stages then the PRL w&%kers who stirred the hornets nest will say they were correct all along and we only ever did well in it because we rested players for the HEC

Cheer up rooster:
Tigers drowned in Bath....45-0.

That's the 3rd nilling in three weeks in the "worlds most competitive league with has no easy games". 2 of them look like aberrations(Quins last week and Tigers this week) but all the same.

Quins bounced back this weekend with a close(on scoreboard) win over our other pool rivals Wasps. Anyone any idea how this went? Going on results so far this season our pool is on paper the easiest pool
The lowest placed Irish side,
The lowest placed English side
The lowest placed French side

[ronk]

The Heineken Cup is dead.....all hail the "Nothing" Cup.

Might still be called The Heineken Cup if they don't find a few more sponsors

I'm gonna call it the Sobriety Cup