bokbevok says...

Bitching NH - you have bleated on for so many years now for Arg to be included in SH competition and now we have it's quite obvious a little time by you guys is not that big a deal. It's is ultimately in the Interest of developing rugby union that we include other teams as to broaden the rugby game.

Considering nearly all the Arg play rugby in NH you could of included them in you Best competion in the world six nations, but I guess now that Arg regularly beat you thy wanted to play south.

I feel for you NH as now you will all slip down a place in world rankings. Good luck to Wales though a genuine rugby nation and really happy to see them at he top of their game, just not against SA.

NH you can keeping pouring all that money you got into your game as SH are happy to except it especially as its not developing your youth coming through. A real bunch of smart guys you have there.

Posted 14:23 06th June 2012

kybone says...

Well Herbman ive just had a look at the stats and SA have lost 18 times against 6N opposition in the past 10 years! Id say thats regualr enough! Don't try and put yourselves alongside NZ cos your not in their league. If both were in top form id rate France better than SA, and id rate this current Welsh team better than SA aswell actually. If SA do a clean sweep against England then that may prove a point but right now SA are World Cup Quarter Finalists and Trinations wooden spoonists so id keep the bleeting down for now.

Posted 12:59 06th June 2012

Waz4before says...

Australia are stuffed then ... More chance of rain now ;-)

Posted 11:48 06th June 2012

D4tress says...

@melkdave - I trust you mean the FFR rather than the FIR. It'd be a while before the Italian rugby federation put manners on the French clubs!

:@)

Posted 11:22 06th June 2012

kybone says...

I think a lot of you are missing a key point- the World Cup is already played at a time which fits in with the Super Rugby calender and the fact that the European club season starts at the same time is ignored. This change now means that European clubs have another 2 weeks of the season to cope without their best players. If you all think that international rugby should take precedence then heres an idea- do what we have to do in Europe and play the Rugby Championship during the Super Rugby season! Overlapping our international and club seasons has become a fact of life in Europe where as the SH club and international competitions seem to have been arranged to come one after the other. Everything about the international calender seems to have been arranged for the benefit of the 3 SH powers. It couldn't be more unbalanced if SANZAR took over the running of the game from the IRB.

@KingShark Don't talk wet! South Africa were no better at the World Cup than England, and you've been quite regularly beaten by the likes of Ireland but you somehow believe that your top 3 club sides would beat all NH nations??? Delusional doesn't come close.

Posted 10:18 06th June 2012

davodiablo says...

The IRB might as well have not compromised if the the French are going to behave like this .

"It's the opposite of democracy," he says ......so is democracy when you have everything your way Mr Bouscatel ?

Posted 09:22 06th June 2012

RugbyLocos says...

The same bunch of nob-heads that wanted to postpone the France-Ireland six nations match until the 2012-2013 season, not to disrupt the 2011-2012 French league. Typical French behaviour !!! - let them eat cake and off with their heads !!!

Posted 08:39 06th June 2012

leinster_goy says...

@InternationalXV

your comment is the biggest load of balls i've ever read

Posted 08:18 06th June 2012

sandal says...

@melkdave

Hear, hear.

The IRB is there to administer the game internationally, not French and English club rugby to the exclusion of international interests.

Bouscatel's case is all the more ridiculous when one considers how the northern hemisphere urged Sanzar to include Argentina. Now that Sanzar has done so, is The Championship -- which, please note, my northern chums, is played over three continents, not one -- to be denied adequate time?

Posted 23:44 05th June 2012

melkdave says...

I really feel the french clubs should grow up and look at things on a global scale rather than their own petty concerns.The rugby Championship is a international tourament not a pigling league fixture,where the clubs can blood new exciting players,as they did last yearThe 2 clubs most affected last year Leicester and Toulouse have /did recover and reached their respective national finals after all.The french clubs have to understand that the world doesent turn or stop at their whims,and in the greater scheme of things they are just one cog in the rugby machine.The FIR really need to put the league organisation firmly its place imo.As its making french rugby a laughing stock

Posted 19:00 05th June 2012