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Mainly because it was men vs boys. The player profile shots on the Prem Rugby website are almost all blank for the whole Tigers pack bar Wallace, half their back line and half their bench.
And promote Ealing or Pirates?Lord Elpus wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:28 pmThey should be relegated as well since they are the worst side in the Prem.
That equally applies to all the teams in recent weeks. The league table says they were the wordt team and normally that's all that countsVan Cannonball wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:43 pmExcept if Saracens weren’t already relegated Leicester wouldn’t be using these games as pre-season to bed in new signings and youth players.
What are you talking about?Lord Elpus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:44 amIt should be a principle that the worst performing side is relegated. Sorries aren't that but have been punished for being found to have broken the salary cap rules. Fwiw I would have fined them the amount of the excess salaries. The double penalty was obviously to ensure they were relegated this season and possibly to deter others - or rather ensure others are better at creative accounting like Sale were.
What is happening now is that sides, including us, are getting cheap and easy bp wins in, what are to the Cheetahs, meaningless games. Whereas the games between the top 6 rivals are very fierce as we saw on Tuesday with 3 serious injuries and probably a few more knocks to already tired bodies.
But this gets to the exact issue.Lord Elpus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:44 am... Fwiw I would have fined them the amount of the excess salaries. The double penalty was obviously to ensure they were relegated this season and possibly to deter others - or rather ensure others are better at creative accounting like Sale were...
I do find it amazing that at one point in the thread someone can, if you will, mock an hypothetical assertion and then go on to make one himself. People are wonderful in their consistency.
So we have a poster on this board who "knows" that we transgressed in 2010. Who is that? How does he/she "know"? Similarly, "prominent members of the supporters club know" that we transgressed. Who are they? How do they "know"? Finally, A.N.Other club "pointed darkly" at our spend.Lord Elpus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:19 amAt least one posts on here. Others were prominent members of SSSC of which I was then a member. As usual in RU unseemly things get brushed under the carpet and smoothed over. Obviously at least one club was upset at our success and pointed darkly at our spend - like Dimes used to do to Sorries.
If anyone feels unduly mocked then I of course apologise.
Unsubstantiated and unfounded rumour? Of which plenty abound about numerous topics all the time.Lord Elpus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:10 amThat's because it isn't in court. It's gossip, scuttlebutt, "word to the wise" whatever you wish to call it. However the people who gave the info. were extremely well connected back then.
Dont be ridiculous! There is no intention to slur anyone at SSSC. It is you who has made the allegation that the Club employed "creative accounting". You allege that certain un-named members of the supporters club were "in the know", though you are unable or unwilling to say who these people are, what they knew or how they knew it. Are you one of them? What do you know? How do you know? Where is your evidence?Lord Elpus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:33 amNot at all. That's a disgraceful slur on those who worked hard to establish the SSSC and , to an extent, enjoyed access to the club management.
chris1850 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:08 pmIBozz
Apologies that you felt the need to post. For my part, and I am sure from Lord Elpus' part as well, there were no gratuitous insults meant or taken during the course of our "debate". We have both made our points, I think, and I am content to accept that we disagree and there is nothing to be gained in posting further on the subject.
Lord Elpus - I accept your viewpoint, as I hope you do mine. I enjoyed our brief "debate" and whilst we may disagree, we are both Sale supporters who want the Club to succeed, which is the main thing. Like the username btw!
Sale Sharks & RU loss was athletics gain.