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Banstead Quin

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 10-Apr-2019, 12:44* »
And their experts for the show are big Lol, BOD and SCW so no one from Quins at all. If it has Deano and/or TW then it's worth a listen else it's just regurgitated nonsense along with an interview with the bloke who owned the joke shop.

Why don't they have a special on the unsubstantiated rumours around the 2013 Lions instead, that would be much more interesting!!!

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 10-Apr-2019, 16:45* »
Or ask the Director of Wasps what is going on financially in Coventry

Mayor West

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 10-Apr-2019, 18:03* »
Or about Leinster the year before going to uncontested scrums, which they were struggling in, to see out the game. How often do you end up with no front row left. Or about the bloodied rag that would come out of an all black doctors bag. I mean the doctors bag was black in colour of course.........just in case.
    From what I can remember it wasn’t Leinster who wanted to make a big fuss but the almost entirely Irish ERC who made a right rugby balls up of proceedings. In my opinion, all that was needed was for a directive from all the unions to go to all the clubs at all levels telling them that this sort of thing must stop or there will be serious consequences. Nice an quietly so as not to give anybody or the sport as a whole a bad reputation.

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 10-Apr-2019, 18:42* »
    From what I can remember it wasn’t Leinster who wanted to make a big fuss but the almost entirely Irish ERC who made a right rugby balls up of proceedings. In my opinion, all that was needed was for a directive from all the unions to go to all the clubs at all levels telling them that this sort of thing must stop or there will be serious consequences. Nice an quietly so as not to give anybody or the sport as a whole a bad reputation.

I think you're remembering according to your own confirmation bias. For a start, Leinster were absolutely furious. Secondly, we made such a balls up of it both at the time and in the subsequent ridiculous denial that something had to be done. Questioning the integrity of the disciplinary officer due to his nationality given the available evidence he had in front of him is poor.

Fearless Fred

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 10-Apr-2019, 18:55* »
BBC will also be covering it in the weekly podcast, with Tom Williams apparently taking part in the show...

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10 years on from #Bloodgate, Rugby Union Weekly reflect on that fateful game with the man at the centre of the storm, Tom Williams.

Out Thursday, subscribe NOW 🎧➡️ (link: https://bbc.in/2K2u8Ye) bbc.in/2K2u8Ye

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 10-Apr-2019, 19:35* »
If we’re going to go rolling subs then why not introduce ‘power plays’ where teams can insist on the other team dropping down to 14 players for 5 minutes.
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Mayor West

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 10-Apr-2019, 20:18* »
BB, im going on what I read in Mr Moore’s account of what went on as he followed it closely being a legal person and all so it’s his bias I have by proxy.

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Robertquin

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 10-Apr-2019, 20:45* »
Watching Tom Williams, he's not that furtive about it is he?


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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #25 on: Thursday 11-Apr-2019, 11:24* »
Are the talksport thing and the greenwood thing different? Is one more worth listening to than the other?

Fearless Fred

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #26 on: Thursday 11-Apr-2019, 11:43* »
There's also the BBC RU podcast with Ugo, Danny, and Tom. I'd guess that one will be worth listening to as all three of them were on the inside at the time of the incident...

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TomBuckQuin

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Re: Bloodgate 10 Years on. Talksport special
« Reply #29 on: Thursday 11-Apr-2019, 14:39* »
BBC one was really good - interesting details about certain relationships and meetings directly from Tom.

 

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