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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2020 Six Nations] England vs Ireland (23/02/20)
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<blockquote data-quote="Amiga500" data-source="post: 988795" data-attributes="member: 56767"><p>No, not at all. Before the game went professional, Scotland were more or less equivalent to Ireland.</p><p></p><p>Professionalism is ill-suited to the game in the traditional hotbed of Scottish rugby - the sparsely populated borders.</p><p></p><p>With no population centre large enough to support a professional team, the SRU have eventually had to take the two biggest districts Glasgow and Edinburgh - and go with them. Prior attempts at having 4 districts having failed financially.</p><p></p><p>An ill-fated resurrection of a professional borders team with the Border Reivers in the Celtic league came to an end in 2007.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amiga500, post: 988795, member: 56767"] No, not at all. Before the game went professional, Scotland were more or less equivalent to Ireland. Professionalism is ill-suited to the game in the traditional hotbed of Scottish rugby - the sparsely populated borders. With no population centre large enough to support a professional team, the SRU have eventually had to take the two biggest districts Glasgow and Edinburgh - and go with them. Prior attempts at having 4 districts having failed financially. An ill-fated resurrection of a professional borders team with the Border Reivers in the Celtic league came to an end in 2007. [/QUOTE]
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