Great post bro

Another note hit. Well done. As I said, we're getting there. Slowly but surely.

Will someone please bite for RC? Time is of the essence

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Why do the english clubs care about how the Celts and Italians qualify their teams anyway? What gives?

What a fuck wit.

Yay! Flaps has arrived.

Buzzin hard bro

I'm starting to believe some of you really believe this means they want to leave. It would be really sad if you are not just taking the piss.

That's not buzzin hard bro. What I read in that shit thread of yours was better described as failin' hard.

You're the least worthwhile poster on this bored.

If the English and French clubs pulled out it would be good night for Irish rugby and you fucking know it.

The French have also threatened to withdraw.

I'm guessing here but I think it's because they want the same conditions to apply in all three leagues. Radical I know

RC's already claimed that square, keep up.

Nervous laughter?

Why?
Will they be wanting pretendy relegation in the pro12 rabo Direct Next?

I tell you what - why don't you take the Italians instead ?

They should be fighting to get more sides into the Amlin.

Give the English a chance to win something while Connacht are away.

That may be the case but I'm not the one asking "Why are the English wanting to leave?" when it's obvious we don't want to leave.

Why would they care though? What difference does it make to them?

It's the last hope for Irish rugby. The national side is in the toilet and the fans built up by the last 10 years of stunning mediocrity will soon fuck off back to watching English soccer. Worrying times.

I suppose it would but it looks like they are won't be swayed from their current course.

I dont see why there is a discussion here. English club owners have taken a stand - some may say a tantrum - to protect their interests. Rabo fans say the English clubs are shit and not wanted anyway.

Going our separate ways seems the logical option?

But think of the children/Italians

This.

Surely if England teams are unwanted anyway, why should this even matter to Irish fellas. As Mullet said, No one will notice - so no problem then

Don't the IRB have to approve new competitions? So won't the English and French effectively have to break away from the IRB and form a new Sport to carry out this threat?

Or, more likely the IRB will just sign the form

Knowing you are in the European cup every year is massive when it comes to player recruitment, sponsorship negotiations and squad selection on a week to week basis in your domestic league. They want to make all these more stressful for the Pro12 teams

Your anus is typing again.

If there is a new comp, why would they disapprove it?

Irish teams qualification for the HEC is based on their finishing positions in the Pro12 League.

WTF

True but this is about the Pro12 not the individual countries that make up the league. You currently have 10 teams out of 12 qualifying for the European cup. Reduce that to 6 and make it the top 6 and it makes life difficult for all of them. Not as difficult as for the English and the French as you still don't have relegation but close enough.

What English team is being relegated this year?

Why would members vote to give the English and French more power or to take the sport into some wonderful narrow, selfish and self interested direction?

or to put it another way (following a few threads on different forums here..learning from the apparently informed as I go)

You already know the answer to that, and you know exactly the reason why