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Billy Beaumont
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Drip Pichot
Billy Beaumont
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Drip Pichot
As much as I am not a fan of pichot, there was not an iota of lies in his tweet. Out of place? maybe. Misleading? You could argue that.The worst moment was when he quoted a random youtube video with dodgy at best sourcing and treated their stats as fact (when they were pretty much all wrong),
Some of the stats were definitely off, and the numbers were taken directly from some random youtube video on the subject. I'm not think he was intentionally misleading people but it's just weird he couldn't have gotten that information himself. And to be clear I by and large agree with him on the wider issue as well.As much as I am not a fan of pichot, there was not an iota of lies in his tweet. Out of place? maybe. Misleading? You could argue that.
Wrong, as in factually wrong? absolutely not.
I will defend Jordi Murphy's (using him as an example) right to play for Ireland, but Pichot included him in the list of players who were born in one country and play for another. That is, again, true.
I could have used George North too.
If you are talking about cases like CJ Stander's, I'll support whoever prevents that from happening ever again.
Have you seen this?What bothers me about Pichot is that he's concerned with bringing a better product but he's only talking about the on the field product. The reasons people like a sport usually has little to do with what goes on the field, but rather the communal and tribal aspects of it. Wish someone would come in and say "we're going to keep the game the same, but we are going to make rugby more accessible and give clubs the ability to become civic institutions."
Any idea Pichot's ever had would do massive harm to Ireland, Scotland and Wales at international and club level, so go Bill.
On the other hand - the current status quo will ultimately destroy the game outside Britain/Ireland and France.Pichot does have some modern ideas which I think the sport needs, but he's also an absolutely insufferable arsehole, and giving him more power would be a bad idea.
Billy B all the way
Basically "if I get elected I'll do everything in my power to grab as much revenue as possible for my home union and dress it up as modernising the game"https://www.the42.ie/agustin-pichot...gentina-5078720-Apr2020/?utm_source=shortlink
It's like they're both trying to outdo each other with **** ideas.