Quote:ballsout
Not inspiring at all, nor is the news we're only likely to sign a couple more.
Meanwhile Sale sign Cipriani and Gray.
Quote:Ex-Bod
Diamond goes for "game changers". We go for Doris and Beech's mate.
Quote:OutsideBath
Sale certainly seem to know what they want and it may well succeed with their signings to date.
Quote:Not practical. I think it is better players go out on loan and are then called back if needed, like English football teams do!!Ex-BodQuote:Which Tyler
but you don't improve by not playing)
Why don't Bath have another team in Regional SW3 for the Academy/Seconds to play regularly - like the Pro Soccer teams have their 2nd teams playing down the league structure?
The Monday night set-up is quite pointless.
Quote:Playing the ball: It's also against RFU regulations; as we all found out when Pirates did precisely that and were forced to pull out.Old Egg ChaserQuote:Not practical. I think it is better players go out on loan and are then called back if needed, like English football teams do!!Ex-BodQuote:Which Tyler
but you don't improve by not playing)
Why don't Bath have another team in Regional SW3 for the Academy/Seconds to play regularly - like the Pro Soccer teams have their 2nd teams playing down the league structure?
The Monday night set-up is quite pointless.
Quote:marshie10
WT, I think you are right about the Spencer/trust thing.
Quote:Miles Offside
I'm hearing rumours of us courting another (British) no.8. That would be good, since Simon Taylor, although excellent, is not getting younger & is the only out-and-out 8 we have. Skirvs IMHO is better at 6, but then again Ovens & Fearns are pretty good 6s too!
Quote:Which TylerQuote:Playing the ball: It's also against RFU regulations; as we all found out when Pirates did precisely that and were forced to pull out.Old Egg ChaserQuote:Not practical. I think it is better players go out on loan and are then called back if needed, like English football teams do!!Ex-BodQuote:Which Tyler
but you don't improve by not playing)
Why don't Bath have another team in Regional SW3 for the Academy/Seconds to play regularly - like the Pro Soccer teams have their 2nd teams playing down the league structure?
The Monday night set-up is quite pointless.
Playing the man: Not that Bod's ever let a little thing like laws of the land, or competition regulations ever get in the way of a suggestion, again, and again, and again
Quote:Did he not have a mid season injury that hindered his progress/availability?Which Tyler
I agree, but it would have been nice to see him on the bench a bit more when we had no other locks
Quote:Which Tyler
really? I got that reputation from several ulster fans (TF70 or FF70 was their nickname for him).
They all said he was a fantastic player, with major disciplinary issues. They all all (or mostly) said Geech was probably the man to address this
Quote:Ex-Bod
Serious question, but what defines Professional, and also what prevents a non-Pro playing for a Pro team?
Quote:Nothing but the need to earn a living ?Ex-Bod
Serious question, but what defines Professional, and also what prevents a non-Pro playing for a Pro team?
Quote:4.2.1 No individual, body corporate or partnership, trust or any other entity (‘Entity’) may directly or indirectly own or control more than one Club except with the prior written consent of the RFU.
Quote:I may very well be wrong, but I think it's considered anti-competitive.Ex-Bod
What is the RFU rationale for that regulation?
Quote:I simply don't know; it might be fully pro, as in all players paid full-time wages; it might be members of PRL, it might be national leagues; Pirates got in trouble whilst in ND1 (can't recall how high their development team had climbed). I don't even know if it's the senior, or junior team's level that is the issue.Ex-Bod
Is there a definition of what constitutes "Pro" - is a scholarship semi-Pro? Could BC2 control a small club in S.Wales for example outside the jurisdiction of RFU?
My angle is that it would be better for Bath to run other teams with their own development squads so the players actually play regularly under some kind of central guidance/evaluation rather than disappear off around the Championship in a random manner.
I know for example that Melksham, like most local clubs run 3 teams in 3 different leagues with free movement between the teams depending on ability and need.
Why should that option be denied to the Pro teams?
Quote:Brian4455
My views on Anglo welsh game just end in the welsh wanting to fight,not worth it.
Quote:DA Bath
...MO, gonna tell us who you heard the backrower was then?
Quote:Ex-Bod
Is there a definition of what constitutes "Pro" - is a scholarship semi-Pro? Could BC2 control a small club in S.Wales for example outside the jurisdiction of RFU?
My angle is that it would be better for Bath to run other teams with their own development squads so the players actually play regularly under some kind of central guidance/evaluation rather than disappear off around the Championship in a random manner.
I know for example that Melksham, like most local clubs run 3 teams in 3 different leagues with free movement between the teams depending on ability and need.
Why should that option be denied to the Pro teams?