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Saints to be punished for allowing North to play with Wales
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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 613869" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>Cool story bro.</p><p></p><p>We will miss your hypothetical player and console ourselves with the great many players with credible hopes of international involvement for other countries who decide its not that big a deal. That's a lot of them over the time this has been active. There will continue to be more, starting with Richard Hibbard, who hasn't got such a clause in his contract. Your anger and indignation quite clearly do not reflect the feelings of the average professional rugby player.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except it is not solely their business as they have agreed with another body to limitations on when they may release their players.</p><p></p><p>I don't see any point in arguing this. People have made up their minds that this is some grievous insult to international rugby, that PRL woke up this morning and decided "How best to **** over the international game more?" And I find that neither true nor credible, and frankly somewhat insulting. I am no great fan of PRL but I find the idea that that they be forbidden collective bargaining, or that they be condemned for enforcing their own rules, ludicrous. But, as the battlelines have been formed, I don't think I'll bother particularly. This does form part of the EPS agreement as best I understand it. They have offered other unions, including the WRU, the chance to form their own such agreement. This has been going on for six years. These are facts, I'm not sure why people aren't addressing them.</p><p></p><p>But hey. Tell you what. Lets forget all about this and just go for a big Poker night together. Big stakes. Big drinking - the first guy out pays for the booze. It'll be great. No need to bring your money, we can always collect it later. LETS DO THIS.</p><p></p><p>P.s. I have an agreement with my girlfriend that I can't pay out poker debts, I hope that's ok.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 613869, member: 42330"] Cool story bro. We will miss your hypothetical player and console ourselves with the great many players with credible hopes of international involvement for other countries who decide its not that big a deal. That's a lot of them over the time this has been active. There will continue to be more, starting with Richard Hibbard, who hasn't got such a clause in his contract. Your anger and indignation quite clearly do not reflect the feelings of the average professional rugby player. Except it is not solely their business as they have agreed with another body to limitations on when they may release their players. I don't see any point in arguing this. People have made up their minds that this is some grievous insult to international rugby, that PRL woke up this morning and decided "How best to **** over the international game more?" And I find that neither true nor credible, and frankly somewhat insulting. I am no great fan of PRL but I find the idea that that they be forbidden collective bargaining, or that they be condemned for enforcing their own rules, ludicrous. But, as the battlelines have been formed, I don't think I'll bother particularly. This does form part of the EPS agreement as best I understand it. They have offered other unions, including the WRU, the chance to form their own such agreement. This has been going on for six years. These are facts, I'm not sure why people aren't addressing them. But hey. Tell you what. Lets forget all about this and just go for a big Poker night together. Big stakes. Big drinking - the first guy out pays for the booze. It'll be great. No need to bring your money, we can always collect it later. LETS DO THIS. P.s. I have an agreement with my girlfriend that I can't pay out poker debts, I hope that's ok. [/QUOTE]
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