URC 2022 Thread

Director of rugby Neil powel is taking over till end of season.he was the blitzbokke coach before taking up the role of director of rugby

Pretty strong odds its not "enemy action", the Sharks management are very unlikely to be risking their professional status to poison the Ospreys players in a relatively meaninglessness mid-season game of all things.

The visiting teams are probably all just staying in the same hotel or using the same training grounds and whichever it is has bad sanitation problems. Should be an easy fix with a bit of investigation you'd think.

The old phrase is enemy action but you are correct that I am not suggesting that the Sharks management is the enemy in question.

Just that there is someone in the chain with poor hygiene standards.

IIRC certain expenses related to foreign tours are paid for by the league so I would expect that given that 3 teams have had problems that the URC have a hotel or restaurant or training facility contracted with poor hygiene.

The URC need to do sufficient investigation that they can stand over the services they provide for clubs.

One of the possible causes investigated in relation to Glasgow and Ulster was both teams went swimming in the sea at a beach where swimming was forbidden for water quality and safety reasons.

No findings were announced in relation to Ulster and Glasgow. Do they have private findings in relation to their investigation.

Yep! They'll be tough in Europe too.

5 wins from 5 tonight by URC teams across Heino and Challenge Cup. Beating 4 French and 1 English side.

jaysus

That's absolutely jaw dropping.

Depending on how it was organized. As in if it was a blind draw. Then they could claim there is no way of knowing who it was. I doubt it would lead to a sacking. As bad as it is, I’m not sure it should lead to that either. Some serious re-education needed in the entire squad though.

I don’t agree about the sacking. I think it’s truly disgusting and ignorant behavior but I don’t agree someone should lose their livelihood over it. This may have been an ignorant joke. One a lot of team mates didn’t seem to have an issue with. Yes it’s racist and vile, they should face consequences but people are far to quick to demand people should lose their jobs.

He has that right. Does it require someone getting fired for that to be true?

I mean, yes? What's the alternative? I've heard "education" being touted. How long must Troare (who has done absolutely nothing wrong here) be expected to wait for such an intervention to bring about tangible meaningful change in the attitudes of his colleagues? How long does he have to watch the club accommodate people that consider him below them?

As someone has already touched on, do you seriously expect to keep your job if you gave a black colleague a Christmas gift of a banana?

How do you know that simply coming forward and saying this won’t have that affect? If it’s willful racism, then no it won’t. If was ignorant joking, then it might have a serious impact. After all this is a teammate.

It cannot be "ignorant joking".

Thats an impossible explanation of what took place here.

Its a racist gesture. It was meant as a racist gesture. It was reinforced as a racist gesture by those others present. It was received as a racist gesture by the player.

Its deliberate workplace racism and the only question is, what the total number of those to be fired for it will be?