Ireland Team Talk XI: Team of nervoUS MOD warning Post 1

lawrencesummers

Faugheen wrote: »

So you essentially agree with the decision yet have a pop at Harris anyway?

I honestly don’t get some people here. Whatever you’re having yourself I suppose.

Cancelling the game is absolutely the right decision. The situation has escalated beyond anything I’ve seen before.

He didn’t make the decision. He advised against it, and yes I think he is useless at his job.



And if this has escalated beyond anything you have seen before you must have been born post SARS 2003.

lawrencesummers

Happy4all wrote: »

Play and no fans allowed to travel should be s. Option

It’s an option, just a silly one because you will have to refund everyone, and that’s a lot of money to throw away.

Play it at a later date and you don’t have to refund everyone, tickets can still be valid.

prawnsambo

jacothelad wrote: »

Yes. Every effort must be made to stay this disease until a vaccination becomes available......possibly by the end of the year.

That's an optimistic projection. It could well take longer.

The Chinese made a complete mess of this. The same old problem with authoritarian regimes. Keep it quiet in the hope that you can contain it and the very keeping quiet means it spreads out of control.

lawrencesummers

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Play the match behind closed doors, as the Italians are doing for the Serie A games being played in the North of Italy this weekend and Inter are doing on Thursday in the Europe League.

Your not taking into account where the money comes from, europa league is mainly TV revenue, 6 nations is gate receipts.

pc7

Simon Harris was just on off the ball, for poster who asked he said yes it applies to woman’s and u20 too. He came across well and spoke sense, right call.

lawrencesummers

pc7 wrote: »

Simon Harris was just in off the ball, for poster who asked he said yes it applies to woman’s and u20 too. He came across well and spoke sense, right call.

Surely he was on not in off.

pc7

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Surely he was on not in off.

Typo, fixed it for you

prawnsambo

IRFU going to make a statement in about an hour.

Shefwedfan

prawnsambo wrote: »

IRFU going to make a statement in about an hour.

They will have to call off, anyone gets sick they could sue irfu if health minister said to call it off

Hurrache

lawrencesummers wrote: »

He didn’t make the decision. He advised against it, and yes I think he is useless at his job.

He advised against what?

prawnsambo

Shefwedfan wrote: »

They will have to call off, anyone gets sick they could sue irfu if health minister said to call it off

They could still play behind closed doors. Obviously no ticket revenue, but by the looks of things, that could be gone anyway.

ridonkulous

As a Matt Cooper listener texted, does this mean we'll have to stop all flights from Italy arriving now? What difference does a couple of thousand for match day make. If you want to stop it for the 6 nations game surely you stop all Italian flights from arriving.

Shefwedfan

ridonkulous wrote: »

As a Matt Cooper listener texted, does this mean we'll have to stop all flights from Italy arriving now? What difference does a couple of thousand for match day make. If you want to stop it for the 6 nations game surely you stop all Italian flights from arriving.

Some people will still have to fly.....


All companies etc are now limiting overseas flights


What happens if someone dies because they travel?



The texter is an idiot

OldRio

ridonkulous wrote: »

As a Matt Cooper listener texted, does this mean we'll have to stop all flights from Italy arriving now? What difference does a couple of thousand for match day make. If you want to stop it for the 6 nations game surely you stop all Italian flights from arriving.

Italians mixing with 50000 people. Doh.

prawnsambo

IRFU statement. They want an urgent meeting with the Minister.

Richard Hillman

I think it's just a case of somebody trying to be important. We have well over a thousand people travelling to and from Italy every day. There will be other events/gatherings that weekend anyway. Coronavirus is coming, whether we like it or not. A rugby match ain't going to change anything

prawnsambo

I would assume that the people in the affected areas in Italy are not allowed travel. So there's that too.

Larbre34

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I think it's just a case of somebody trying to be important. We have well over a thousand people travelling to and from Italy every day. There will be other events/gatherings that weekend anyway. Coronavirus is coming, whether we like it or not. A rugby match ain't going to change anything

A complacent enough comment. I wouldn't expect events with just a domestic audience to be cancelled this weekend or next weekend (on current information) but an intense concentration of people with 10% coming from a region under a meedical travel advisory is a different level altogether.

Cookiemunster

Yeah, maybe he should have spoken to the IRFU before announcing live on national TV that the match was going to be called off.

awec

IRFU are playing a dangerous game IMO. It is not a good look to avoid following government advice at times like this to avoid losing a few quid.

prawnsambo

awec wrote: »

IRFU are playing a dangerous game IMO. It is not a good look to avoid following government advice at times like this to avoid losing a few quid.

Well government advice delivered over the airwaves is not exactly the way to go about it either.

Cookiemunster

awec wrote: »

IRFU are playing a dangerous game IMO. It is not a good look to avoid following government advice at times like this to avoid losing a few quid.

What game are they playing? They should have been informed before it was announced on TV. As they statement says, they have no idea of the reasoning behind the decision.

LuckyLloyd

awec wrote: »

IRFU are playing a dangerous game IMO. It is not a good look to avoid following government advice at times like this to avoid losing a few quid.

Absolutely! Get on board!

awec

prawnsambo wrote: »

Well government advice delivered over the airwaves is not exactly the way to go about it either.

Yea that's true, but I think it's safe to assume that Simon Harris is more clued in on this than the IRFU and he's not just saying it for the craic.

The IRFU will look like total dickheads if they resist calls to cancel the game from government ministers.

I personally likely won't attend if it's the view of the Minister for Health that it shouldn't go ahead. Firstly for the obvious reasons, but secondly because if the IRFU try to force the game to go ahead in the face of opposing advice for the sake of a few quid then they can go fcuk themselves.

OldRio

I think we all agree that the game should be cancelled, if that is the medical advice. But one would have thought that common courtesy would be employed by the government. EG contact the relevant stake holders.

Squidgy Black

awec wrote: »

Yea that's true, but I think it's safe to assume that Simon Harris is more clued in on this than the IRFU and he's not just saying it for the craic.

The IRFU will look like total dickheads if they resist calls to cancel the game from government ministers.

They'll 100% be in the wrong if they refuse to cancel it or fight back on it, but at the end of the day Harris really should've consulted with them before announcing it publicly. IRFU are realistically the ones who'll face the backlash from fans and dealing with the Italian RFU etc and cancelling the event. A heads up and conversation about why they've come to the decision would've been common sense.

Cookiemunster

awec wrote: »

Yea that's true, but I think it's safe to assume that Simon Harris is more clued in on this than the IRFU and he's not just saying it for the craic.

The IRFU will look like total dickheads if they resist calls to cancel the game from government ministers.

I personally likely won't attend if it's the view of the Minister for Health that it shouldn't go ahead. Firstly for the obvious reasons, but secondly because if the IRFU try to force the game to go ahead in the face of opposing advice for the sake of a few quid then they can go fcuk themselves.

You're jumping the gun a bit there. There is nothing to say that they're going to go against the advice of the government. But an announcement made on TV after 6pm without prior notification is not exactly the way to go about it and the IRFU are entirely within their rights to get the exact reasoning behind the decision before officially calling the game off. Especially when it's still 10 days away.

gally74

Irfu making some bad decisions the past year

awec

Cookiemunster wrote: »

You're jumping the gun a bit there. There is nothing to say that they're going to go against the advice of the government. But an announcement made on TV after 6pm without prior notification is not exactly the way to go about it and the IRFU are entirely within their rights to get the exact reasoning behind the decision before officially calling the game off. Especially when it's still 10 days away.

This has all the hallmarks of Nucifora and is surely grounds enough for him to be sent packing?

Cookiemunster

awec wrote: »

This has all the hallmarks of Nucifora and is surely grounds enough for him to be sent packing?

What? Jesus, take off the tinfoil hat. The statement would have come from the likes of Browne, not the guy in charge of player development and recruitment.