Six Nations 2017

Players are saying it wouldn't give enough recovery time for that level of competition.

The list of injuries suggests that the tournament is short enough already.

But never mind eh, the marketing men have told it's what we need so its all good.

It will happen. Won't be in the player's best interests but it will happen. Sport isn't about the players nor the fans any more.

Are we all just going to stand by, staring at our shuffling feet as these marketing Basturts take complete charge of OUR great game and ruin it.

Money talks. So unless you've got billions, what can you do?

If it's what they want to do then as ever the players and fans will have no say in it whatsoever.

When EPL and SPFL team and players get told to play on a Friday and a Monday night and to hold up kick off for the very seconds the necessary advert is over then international rugby hasn't a chance.

Ridiculous idea though.

It's a long story but I one once ended up sitting next to the finance director of a Premiership club. It seemed to me that he knew a lot about finance, but his knowledge of rugby was even less than my meagre amount, and by a considerable margin. I took to talking to the guy on the other side of me after he told me "we're in the entertainment business".



He is right in a way but players welfare doesn't seem to figure very much. Yes, were addressing head injuries now, but that is dealing with the consequence.

Shouldn't we also be addressing the root causes. The sheer physicality of the modern game needs to be considered a lot more, and changes put in place to cope with it and reduce the number of injuries in the first place.

Or are these just the ramblings of an old dinosaur who should be put out to grass?

comment by theresgonnaebeashow - John, you're immortal now. (U5686)
posted 20 hours, 26 minutes ago
It's a long story but I one once ended up sitting next to the finance director of a Premiership club. It seemed to me that he knew a lot about finance, but his knowledge of rugby was even less than my meagre amount, and by a considerable margin. I took to talking to the guy on the other side of me after he told me "we're in the entertainment business".



He is right in a way but players welfare doesn't seem to figure very much. Yes, were addressing head injuries now, but that is dealing with the consequence.

Shouldn't we also be addressing the root causes. The sheer physicality of the modern game needs to be considered a lot more, and changes put in place to cope with it and reduce the number of injuries in the first place.

Or are these just the ramblings of an old dinosaur who should be put out to grass?



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It's the same with football and I'm sure many other sports too. Clubs are getting owners who know nothing about the sport they've invested in.

The guy at Cardiff comes in and changes their kit from blue to... RED! And their nickname is the BLUEBIRDS!!

They were talking on Soccer Saturday the other day about Coventry and more importantly Leyton Orient. One fan of Orient said he'd rather see them relegated and the owner leave than the owner stay and they stay up.

Says it all about how sports clubs are run by these overseas owners who know diddly squat about sport.

At the same time i know players at national league level who arent taking their own welfare seriously enough. And part of it is down to the longstanding culuture in rugby of playing through injuries and trying to hit everything that moves as hard as possible

These know nothings will be bad custodians yes but reckless injury inducing behaviour is at the grass level too

Part of its due to the increase of PEDs in professional sport - rugby players had a ridculous sudden growth in average size and it wasnt due to a magical diet change

Whatever the whys and wherefores, excess physically will kill the game and needs to be addressed.