How can we be jealous? Seriously come on, how could we be jealous?! Especially when teams like Leicester and co get through most of the time to the final rounds of the HEC while the furthest a Welsh team has gotten has been the Semi Finals, maybe even a final once in a blue moon.
There is no hypocrisy Lora, where is the hypocrisy? I know the (heavily unbalanced and biased) Welsh Regions are dear to you Lora, but there is no grounds to suddenly start shouting "hypocrisy!"
The EDF Paper Cup is a competition with little or no value, and it needs to be dropped, pronto!
Even if the playoffs were removed, that just gets rid of
three matches between four teams.
If the EDF Paper Cup was cut, it would free
twenty six matches at least from the Guinness Premiership side. That is space in October for GP matches to go in so that the Autumn internationals are not interrupted, that is space in December for GP to go in so that the Six Nations are not disrupted as much.
When we talk about a streamlined, structured season, we mean a season
without crap like this bunging up the calendar. Eventually the choice will be very clear: either we drop cynical money making crap like this, or we drop our commitments to International rugby. Because at the rate we are going at now, English rugby cannot commit itself to Autumn internationals AND cash crop cups like the EDF cup.
Besides, we already have a competition where English and Welsh sides can play each other, we've had it for the last decade, its called the
Heineken Cup!
And as for the racism, maybe if you didn't go on about how you'd really, really, really, really, REALLY would love to beat England and see them in hell, burning, and then rub it in with as many swear words as possible to the nearest innocent bystander in a white jersey then maybe, just maybe, you'd be tolerated a little more here.
Just a point
