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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 162604"><p>When you talk to the Scottish fans and when you go to rugby games across the country there, they are passionate about the game, incredibly so. There is nothing better than to turn up to a game in the middle of January and pick up a free cup of tea and a scotch pie, simply magical.</p><p></p><p>However, I think what happened was at the advent of profesionalism in 1996, the SRU decided to go for broke and split Scotland into four regions in which the borders got their own region.</p><p></p><p>Now, this must only mean good things you may think. A rugby mad region producing 80% of Scotland's talent for decades getting their own team to compete on an international stage. However, there are several things that have to be taken into consideration.</p><p></p><p>First of all, we have the nightmare situation which chaps like Saints fan Webby and TehMite mention on these forums: that is suddenly lumping together a region of fiercely independent clubs with distinct identities into one region. If you suddenly tell fans who support rival clubs to suddenly support a brand new super-club together, its plainly not going to work.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, the region of the Borders is also fiercely amateur. While the other parts of Europe were moving towards professionalism, the Borders stuck with their line that amateurism was best for their reason.</p><p></p><p>Beleive me, if the rugby people of the Borders wanted to support Border Reivers, they would have. It is rather ironic that for years, the Borders complained endlessly about professionalism this and Border Reivers are pointless that while trumpeting their own little club competitions in their own little Borders world and then when the SRU decide that enough was enough and knocked Border Reivers on the head, they all suddenly turn up in their droves, dismayed that they can't have their cake and eat it.</p><p></p><p>The problem was that the Borders fans liked having a biggish Rugby Club to represent them on the bigger stage but just didn't believe in the Reivers...which is a kind of contradiction in a way.</p><p></p><p>In my opinion, leave them to it. They want to ignore reality and live out their days in their little dream world of the Borders where professionalism never happened and how they are the center of the universe and this is to the detrement of Scottish rugby as a whole.</p><p></p><p> If fans had given Reivers a chance and turned up in their droves then they would have been far more successful and as a result, the talent that comes out of such an extraordinarily small region would be able to compete on the big stage for a big Scottish club day in day out. Instead, they have to go to France and England for that and the blame for that can be laid jointly at the doors of the selfish fans of the Borders and the incompetent SRU.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 162604"] When you talk to the Scottish fans and when you go to rugby games across the country there, they are passionate about the game, incredibly so. There is nothing better than to turn up to a game in the middle of January and pick up a free cup of tea and a scotch pie, simply magical. However, I think what happened was at the advent of profesionalism in 1996, the SRU decided to go for broke and split Scotland into four regions in which the borders got their own region. Now, this must only mean good things you may think. A rugby mad region producing 80% of Scotland's talent for decades getting their own team to compete on an international stage. However, there are several things that have to be taken into consideration. First of all, we have the nightmare situation which chaps like Saints fan Webby and TehMite mention on these forums: that is suddenly lumping together a region of fiercely independent clubs with distinct identities into one region. If you suddenly tell fans who support rival clubs to suddenly support a brand new super-club together, its plainly not going to work. Secondly, the region of the Borders is also fiercely amateur. While the other parts of Europe were moving towards professionalism, the Borders stuck with their line that amateurism was best for their reason. Beleive me, if the rugby people of the Borders wanted to support Border Reivers, they would have. It is rather ironic that for years, the Borders complained endlessly about professionalism this and Border Reivers are pointless that while trumpeting their own little club competitions in their own little Borders world and then when the SRU decide that enough was enough and knocked Border Reivers on the head, they all suddenly turn up in their droves, dismayed that they can't have their cake and eat it. The problem was that the Borders fans liked having a biggish Rugby Club to represent them on the bigger stage but just didn't believe in the Reivers...which is a kind of contradiction in a way. In my opinion, leave them to it. They want to ignore reality and live out their days in their little dream world of the Borders where professionalism never happened and how they are the center of the universe and this is to the detrement of Scottish rugby as a whole. If fans had given Reivers a chance and turned up in their droves then they would have been far more successful and as a result, the talent that comes out of such an extraordinarily small region would be able to compete on the big stage for a big Scottish club day in day out. Instead, they have to go to France and England for that and the blame for that can be laid jointly at the doors of the selfish fans of the Borders and the incompetent SRU. [/QUOTE]
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