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Has rugby union over-reached itself?
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<blockquote data-quote="SaintsFan_Webby" data-source="post: 117853"><p>Hold on. That is quite frankly a load of ********.</p><p></p><p>Nice to see people conveniently forgetting it was in fact the French clubs who were the first to threaten a boycott. Obviously more difficult to bash the English from this angle, but that doesn't make it any less true. </p><p></p><p>Secondly, as has already been discussed elsewhere, the Heineken Cup contract ended this year. Clubs were basically making drastic opening statements in order to broker as best a deal as possible. The competition looks very likely to be renewed.</p><p></p><p>Thirdly, English and French clubs have actually campaigned for clubs from the 'smaller' rugby nations involved like Italy to receive a bigger cut of the Heineken Cup revenue. Hardly the words of greedy nations <em>only</em> in it for themselves. They haven't acted like Saints over the whole affair, but aren't the evil money-grubbing ******** you envisage.</p><p></p><p>How about reading around a bit before coming out with one-eyed rubbish like that?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Great point Melhor, nice to see the game beginning to blossom in some unexpected places.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SaintsFan_Webby, post: 117853"] Hold on. That is quite frankly a load of ********. Nice to see people conveniently forgetting it was in fact the French clubs who were the first to threaten a boycott. Obviously more difficult to bash the English from this angle, but that doesn't make it any less true. Secondly, as has already been discussed elsewhere, the Heineken Cup contract ended this year. Clubs were basically making drastic opening statements in order to broker as best a deal as possible. The competition looks very likely to be renewed. Thirdly, English and French clubs have actually campaigned for clubs from the 'smaller' rugby nations involved like Italy to receive a bigger cut of the Heineken Cup revenue. Hardly the words of greedy nations [i]only[/i] in it for themselves. They haven't acted like Saints over the whole affair, but aren't the evil money-grubbing ******** you envisage. How about reading around a bit before coming out with one-eyed rubbish like that? Great point Melhor, nice to see the game beginning to blossom in some unexpected places. [/QUOTE]
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