Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:01 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Telegraph reporting London Welsh have won their appeal and will play in the Premiership next season - Newcastle are relegated

brilliant news - justice at last !

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:20 pm  

And your boys, Wasps, look to have found a buyer.

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:23 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

Telegraph reporting London Welsh have won their appeal and will play in the Premiership next season - Newcastle are relegated

The 'national' code loses another northern team, hurrah.

The M4 will be the new M62 before they know it!

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:49 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

And your boys, Wasps, look to have found a buyer.

really ? didn't see that !

who is it ?

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:55 pm  

Saw it briefly earlier this afternoon. A former player, I think. Moss?

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:34 pm  

Urmston Wire wrote:

The 'national' code loses another northern team, hurrah.

The M4 will be the new M62 before they know it!

I can see attendances at Twickenham dropping below 80,000 now......the end is nigh

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:35 pm  

You remind me of ECT, Dally M and Eels Fan sometimes, in your inability to let any criticism of the game (in your case union) pass without a withering and unnecessary sarcastic defence.

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:03 pm  

Urmston Wire wrote:

The 'national' code loses another northern team, hurrah.

The M4 will be the new M62 before they know it!

It s true. Union cannot claim to be a national game in England with only one team north of Northampton and nothing on the Eastern side of the country north of Reading.

RU is a mirror image of RL geographically. I can see Newcastle and Leeds going belly up if they don t get promotion pretty soon.

On the other hand Broncos arn t doing too well either.

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:45 pm  

It will be hard for both Newcastle and Carnegie to get back into the first division anytime soon. I can't see Newcastle keeping hold of even their half-decent players, which would leave them in a similar situation to Carnegie when they went down. Both Bristol and Pirates will have better squads, and I'd say finance.

Re: If you must discuss Union, do it here II : Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:40 pm  

Don't often come on here, and I may have said it before, but why is it that whenever there is a big union game there are two or three on here banging on about how dull it is, and how the union marketing must be great to attract so many deluded fools. Polishing a turd was one phrase used. If you don't like, don't watch. Personally, I don't much like league, I find it a bit one dimensional. I like watching good rucking and powerful mauling. I don't mind if my team wins through penalties and I thought the Wales-Australia games were absorbing and exciting. But then, I was brought up on union and have played, coached and reffed it, so understand some of the complex twiddly laws. I know there are flaws, the scrum for one, but I like it. I don't feel the need to do league down though, why some of you feel the need to do union down?