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Edinburgh01

A fairly horrific endightment of Scottish underage and academy rugby Can't argue with that sentiment. How odd. It was only the other day when that chap Edinburgh01 was telling me that Scottish rugby was in rude health. Another of your 'I am not nearly as clever as I think I am' posts. What I said i...

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Are you seriously suggesting that, for example, Cam Redpath is not Scottish? Don't bother. Anyone who seriously argues that Redpath should not represent Scotland is either an idiot or a troll. And that's before we get to the likes of Ashman who never wanted to play for anyone else and turned Englan...

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There was an article in the Economist that takes a different take on this. Essentially it says we can forget about the traditional property ladder, it has become too hard to get on, and increasingly those who get on the lower rungs stay there. We are all discussing a world that disappeared 20 years ...

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Bizarrely given it's a football stadium in a non rugby city, Ibrox for the Commonwealth Games 7s. An old but characterful stadium, but what made it wonderful was the way the Weegies set out to have a party. Every team was cheered to the rafters, but the crowd made a point of adopting the minnows. Ju...

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My argument is pretty straightforward. I think the UFC is a toss competition that takes the piss out of proper club supporters. If you're happy to be a lapdog to the Oirish, don't let me stand in your way. :thumbup: That is not an argument (or arguments). That is a conclusion. Conclusions are tradi...

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This is a safe space. It's OK to admit you don't have an argument. My argument is pretty straightforward. I think the UFC is a toss competition that takes the piss out of proper club supporters. If you're happy to be a lapdog to the Oirish, don't let me stand in your way. :thumbup: That is not an a...

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"U R WeLsH, LoL" I’m open to you pointing out what I got wrong? The Welsh don’t travel? Well, the Lions tours suggest you’re full of shite for starters. And games against Scotland in Edinburgh. But apart from that, you’re spot on. To be fair, there has been a very noticeable drop in those coming to...

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Just so I'm not misunderstanding you... In the 30-year history of the Heiny Cup, Scottish clubs have only ever won one single knockout game. And you're happy with that? Your 'domestic' competition sticks two fingers up at loyal fans, by asking them to travel 8,000 miles to away games. And you're ha...

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Can they? How many Scottish club players are earning more than £500k? As many as we need. Just so I'm not misunderstanding you... In the 30-year history of the Heiny Cup, Scottish clubs have only ever won one single knockout game. And you're happy with that? Your 'domestic' competition sticks two f...

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Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:55 am
Edinburgh01 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:46 am Average crowds are up by 50%, and for the first time the Scottish clubs can compete financially with the English.
Can they?

How many Scottish club players are earning more than £500k?

As many as we need.

Edinburgh01

The URC has been a disaster for Edinburgh over the last two years. Average crowds are up by 50%, and for the first time the Scottish clubs can compete financially with the English. The teams are not even playing that well. What we really want is to get into bed with the people who have wrecked the E...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:35 pm Are Bordeaux a live option as challengers this year? Seem to have plenty about them.

Surprisingly poor stadium, but a great rugby trip if anyone comes up against them.

Edinburgh01

It is possible that both Zebre and Benetton go through. That would be fantastic for Italian rugby.

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It is hard to make like for like comparisons between this generation and previous generations. When I was young, I spent my money in substantially the same way previous generations had. There were detail differences, but they were small. In the last two or three decades spending patterns have change...

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In 1985 the average household spend on tobacco products was 3.3% in the U.K. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure That has collapsed in recent years as the numbers smoking have collapsed, despite massive tax increases. You wouldn’t have bother...

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Younger people smoke less, drink less and drive less than the last generation. Smoke less is pretty much a given. Where do you get drink and drive less? I have no figures but I'd be surprised at this based on my kids and their contemporaries. But then there are other areas they spend more, some of ...

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Younger people smoke less, drink less and drive less than the last generation. Smoke less is pretty much a given. Where do you get drink and drive less? I have no figures but I'd be surprised at this based on my kids and their contemporaries. But then there are other areas they spend more, some of ...

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By "the credit crunch", are you perchance referring to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8? It wasn't called "the credit crunch", you thick twat. :lol: Maybe use Google before you make such confident statements. For example............ The financial crisis, or ‘credit crunch’ of 2008 affected all...

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Imagine if they poured the money they spend on imports on grassroots rugby You have not thought this through have you? It costs less to bring in an equivalent player from elsewhere than develop one. The pro / international salary will be the same whether locally developed or brought in, but someone...

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Is Scotland not chasing everyone with even a remote connection? Worst t1 nation out there, they develop absolutely nothing themselves. Imagine if they poured the money they spend on imports on grassroots rugby You have not thought this through have you? It costs less to bring in an equivalent playe...

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The SRU contact every decent SQ player to establish whether or not thay are interested in playing for Scotland. Most of these contacts never go anywhere but many get into the press as if were in advanced talks. According to the press, Adam Hastings is coming back to Glasgow, Fin Smith and now Fergus...

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Hard though it may be to believe, I doubt there was as many wilful or deliberate acts of malice. I have seen too many IT systems that the users thought were crap, but senior management believed were wonderful, partly because they were never told how poor they actually are. The practice of 'only good...

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As I have said in the other place, an issue for the RFU is they only have one international team. There are lots of sweeping simplifications in here, but essentially England has more players, more clubs, more of everything that needs funded than the other home nations and Ireland. But the same as th...

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Assuming that you bought your first place 30 years ago, then it it quite literally twice as hard on average for someone to buy that same house today. In 1992, the average house was worth roughly 4x the average salary. In 2023, the average house was worth more than 8x the average salary. All of this...

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Assuming that you bought your first place 30 years ago, then it it quite literally twice as hard on average for someone to buy that same house today. In 1992, the average house was worth roughly 4x the average salary. In 2023, the average house was worth more than 8x the average salary. All of this...

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The fact that Boeing are selling aircraft in the 2020s based on a conceptual design from the 1960s should ring a few alarm bells. I'm no engineer but it seems to me that jet engine technology is considerably ahead of plane design at the moment and instead of starting with a clean sheet of paper to ...

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One of my sons is currently looking for his first flat in Edinburgh. One of the flats he has looked at is in the same block, and is the same size etc as my first flat. It has been upgraded compared to mine and has double glazing, central heating etc mine never had, but is a comparable first flat. It...

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I literally said it was the norm to live a frugal lifestyle when you started out. As you say, so did all your contemporaries. The exuberant lifestyle prevalent today simply wasn't available to you. Sorry, I misunderstood you. But you are making my point, a frugal lifestyle was the norm when i was y...

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Please stop year zeroing. There was no such lifestyle. It wasn't the norm unless you were a public school kid with a massive allowance, or had a banking or stock broking job in the city. One of the (many) reasons that lifestyle is more prevalent nowadays is because people see absolutely no prospect...

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Everyone can provide some anecdote to prove their point on this one, but the avocado/Pret/never had it so good thing is being done to death. Point blank if we compare today's generation in their mid 20s with their grandparents then yeah, they have a better overall standard of living than postwar. C...

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Reposted again for you Duff... as this is a real life example comparing a 2023 version of me to me 30 years ago... and it's not London. Was rural Cambridgeshire. Buying a house in 1993 I paid £48k. That same house sold for £250k recently. So over five times the price. A person doing the same job no...

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Edinburgh v Glasgow in Murrayfield in R9 was a new record at just under 38k, some 6k up on the old record.

Glasgow v Edinburgh was only about 7k, but it was a sell out.

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Reposted again for you Duff... as this is a real life example comparing a 2023 version of me to me 30 years ago... and it's not London. Was rural Cambridgeshire. Buying a house in 1993 I paid £48k. That same house sold for £250k recently. So over five times the price. A person doing the same job no...

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There was a case where a long jump world record was set in Italy (Pedroso?), but the Italians refused to put it forward for ratification despite the wind reading being legal on the basis there was no way it was correct. That sounds a very un-Italian thing to do. I suspect that it would have been wa...

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Absolutely. Even a blind man could see she was juiced up to the gills. Well yeah, but the wind gauge controversy is a bigger issue I think. The 100m wind gauge read 0 m/s, while the triple jump wind gauge near by read 4+ m/s... Did the rest of the field also run faster? Personal bests? Loads of PBs...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_jump OR has stood since the 60s and even the WR since the early 90s. Have you evolved to be too fat? I have never seen a record last that long, that's quite bizarre. Most of the jumping and throwing events are similar. There are both older records, and events wher...

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Does it mention him doing one to Worcester just after qualifying before coming back? He was offered improved terms by Edinburgh, which Worcester doubled. It is a short career, and one that could end at any moment. No one blamed him. Is he playing in the URC derby on Saturday and do you think Edenbu...

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Interview Duhan van der Merwe’s journey from South Africa to playing rugby for Scotland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPyvVKViJk Does it mention him doing one to Worcester just after qualifying before coming back? He was offered improved terms by Edinburgh, which Worcester doubled. It is a short...

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Interview

Duhan van der Merwe’s journey from South Africa to playing rugby for Scotland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPyvVKViJk

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I think that it’s probably a move that’s irreversible, particularly given that (new sponsors) Investec have now invested significant amounts of money and Investec have a big South African presence. South Africa will probably win the next two or three World Cups without any more help from us.” Inves...

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