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Off Topic Ospreys, Wales & BIL

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  1. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    Straight away, greed raises its ugly head. Why have plays offs and a final when you have a League table to establish who the winners should be. There are enough fixtures already.
     
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    Player welfare?
    Secondary to money!
     
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    I’m all for an international League, but keep it simple. Rugby administrators are killing the sport.
     
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    If it ain't broke don't fix it.

    But yes money rules.

    More dosh for the big wigs.


    Sorry edit......And TV will dictate.IMO would definitely go to Sky,BT.
     
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    Headlines in new local sports paper say "Ospreys to join English league"
     
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  7. Taffvalerowdy

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    That won’t happen in isolation <cheers>
     
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    Is that because Ospreys do not want it or the English league will not allow it?
     
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  9. Taffvalerowdy

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    The RFU won’t support it and there would be hell to play from the clubs in The Championship who are chasing promotion to the Premiership - and there are already enough whispers of ring fencing the Premiership as it is. Expect law suits!

    Additionally, the WRU would not permit it.
     
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    So, indirectly, the Ospreys are being funded by the sale of the Swans!
     
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    Possibly
     
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    .......and if they merged with the Scarlets.....?
     
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    That’s not going to happen.

    Two new/additional Directors appointed today.
     
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    Too much politics.
    Too much not what you know but who you know.

    Me thinks anyway.
     
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    Will that mean more money coming into the Ospreys thus negating the need for merger?
     
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    The merger is off for the foreseeable future.

    The challenge is to agree a funding model that doesn’t favour the Turks.

    Palfrey claims the Turks are getting £1.6m more this season from the WRU than either the Blues or the Ospreys.
     
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    An excerpt from last night’s Q&A.

    Clarke was livid that the Union were insisting BBBD be released to Cardiff and dug his heels and upset quite a few people and had to release Thornton as a sweetener.

    This after being told by the Union that the four players we had lined up to bolster the squad when internationals were away were not being allowed to join us.

    There was real anger in his voice when explaining what had gone on.
     
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    Share Issue of £750k in Ospreys
     
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    Wales Grandslam 2019 in the bag, and No2 in the world rankings!!!..............................<party><party><party>
     
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