Colonial View of the RFU? (erm, or should Fiji join Super Rugby)

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"When you consider how England is blatantly using its power to bolster the national side with players not remotely English, it is time for rugby to start levelling the playing field."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10745534

"There is a disturbing atmosphere of exploitation, perhaps linked to colonial ways, about the way rugby is run."

Interesting thoughts again from Chris Rattue.

MBTGOG wrote:Welshjohn,

There is no need for the personal insults.

I have called him, petty, it is hardly an insult, it is a point of view based on his beliefs.

This is a man who threatened to assault me if e ever saw me (not that he could), but I saw nothing to suggest he had any warning?

I guess it gives a new meaning to taking the PI

Well I shall rephrase it, I will just say he is a man with petty ideas. That is not an insult, it is a point of view.

I will not PM anyone here.

You tell 'em John - I think their displacing their anger on you

welshjohn369 wrote:

aucklandlaurie wrote: The two issues are inextricably linked.
It is the selfishness of the IRB and celts which is forbidding players from representing a country when they have already played for another.The Scots, Irish and Welsh do not want the Samoans to be seen as their equals or stronger....

Reel your neck it and stop trying to turn the thread to your favour.

It is NZ that are the main poachers of the PI nations and it was rife in days gone by as everyone knowns it's rife today as well.

The rest of you petty ranting ain't worth answering you petty little man.

WJ it's obvious when you are losing an argument because you resort to being obtuse and antagonistic.

"stop trying to turn the thread to your favour" ? WTF? Why don't you just say "Stop out arguing me by using facts and logic".

I'm sick and tired of hearing this "NZ Poaching PI" argument from under educated members of the home nations. For someone who supposedly lives in NZ you have apparently failed to grasp any nuance of the culture. You are not new in that, NZ is full of blind racist ex-pats for whom life would be much more convenient if NZ were not a polynesian island. Suggest you just go home to Wales since you are so clearly bridling with resentment.