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Is Rugby Union in terminal decline?

Hants_red

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60,000 at Twickenham today which saw Quins end their 5 lost running streak. Would have been a full house if played when it should have been.

A good crowd!
 

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60,000 at Twickenham today which saw Quins end their 5 lost running streak. Would have been a full house if played when it should have been.

A good crowd!
Gave the sorry looking Chiefs a thorough thrashing !
 

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They are a bit reminiscent of MKDons, "Franchise RFC" if you like. Fooked over Coventry City FC, the local Coventry RFC and were now trying to move in on Worcester. Not only is it most appropriate that they should have to start out back at the bottom of the rugby pyramid, they should be sent packing back to Sudbury as well ! :)
 

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A telling line in that report:
"Should they still be considered to be in the Midlands, ...."
 

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They are a bit reminiscent of MKDons, "Franchise RFC" if you like. Fooked over Coventry City FC, the local Coventry RFC and were now trying to move in on Worcester. Not only is it most appropriate that they should have to start out back at the bottom of the rugby pyramid, they should be sent packing back to Sudbury as well ! :)
They also ground-shared with Wycombe FC for quite a while.
 

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London Irish bankrupt, how long can this façade that is the Premiership continue?
 

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A pretty excoriating dissection about the decline of English "top-level" rugby in yesterday's Guardian.
A toxic mixture of hubris and greed.
A poor world cup over the next month and the fur could really start to fly.
Couldn't happen to a more fitting bunch of "chaps"
 

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Another club gone it seems

 

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Should merge with rugby league and form a national premier league😎
 
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