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Do you trust the RFU? - Event Date: 30 Jan 2025 - 31 Mar 2025 |
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Big Eddie 
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 Calendar Event: Do you trust the RFU?Posted: 30 Jan 2025 at 17:02 |
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For me as with most things in life the current furore surrounding the RFU comes down to trust. If the trust in the RFU has gone then fundamental change is required for trust to return. Nothing can be resolved, developed or advanced if there isn't trust.
I have only provided two possible poll responses Yes or No. I do not think that trust can be subdivided you either trust an organisation or you don't. The poll allows replies so you can caveat with words if you wish but as far as the poll numbers are concerned you either trust the organisation or you don't. I have done enough of these polls to know that participation in such polls is generally low in number (Normally less than a 100) because you have to be a registered member of Rolling Maul for a certain period of time before you can vote. However, we can use the poll as a barometer to judge how those who are sufficiently immersed in rugby union below the elite level feel. I exhort you all to participate The poll will close on 31 March 2025
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 08:07 |
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I will be posting short messages on this thread just to keep it current and at the forefront of everyone's attention. It would be good to get at least a 100 votes
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 12:01 |
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The poll has now been running for about 5 daylight hours........0 YES votes and 25 NO votes with no caveat comments.
Obviously we will have to get a lot more votes to make this statistically relevant but I think most people will see the way this is presently headed
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 15:14 |
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For those that perhaps want to vote YES it would be useful if you provided a comment on why you still trust the RFU
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Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 15:19 |
Null set so far BigEddie
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 17:44 |
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Thirty votes in and the first RFU trustee has just registered a YES vote
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 01 Feb 2025 at 09:32 |
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A small number of responses so far but of the 38 who have done so, less than 10 percent trust the RFU. It says everything! Lets get the numbers of responses above a 100 at least ......
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Posted: 01 Feb 2025 at 11:33 |
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I do not trust the RFU, in its current guise, they are self serving and do not have this beautiful game in mind. They are looking out for number one - themselves that is - none of their actions, to date, have proven otherwise. Now big Bill has come along and is already showing that he just wants to be a part of the cabal and look after their own self serving agendas.
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Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny!
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Big Eddie
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Posted: Yesterday at 08:28 |
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That Castleparkknight is pretty much the nub of the problem.
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Big Eddie
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Posted: Yesterday at 09:14 |
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Good piece in the Times exposing the RFU's hypocrisy over misinformation.......the Times has uncovered that the £900k that the RFU mouth pieces quote as the cost of replacing coaches is at least £1m more as the Leicester Tiger accounts disclose the £1m that the RFU also paid to acquire the services of Borthwick and Sinfield.
The Times is also withering in its condemnation of the RFU's charade of the two Bill's tour of the clubs
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Posted: Yesterday at 09:27 |
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and dont forget the vast amounts of money wasted on producing the current national team who can count themselves lucky that there are two worse teams in the six nations wales and scotland
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JZSmith
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Posted: Yesterday at 12:36 |
I suspect you meant Wales and Italy?
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Posted: Yesterday at 14:57 |
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alright maybe a bit harsh on the jocks wales and italy then
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 8 hours 21 minutes ago at 10:28 |
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47 respondents so far .....3 trust the RFU 44 don't trust the RFU ..........direction of travel is clear. It would be good to get 100+ responses
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Posted: 7 hours 49 minutes ago at 11:00 |
I am rather concerned Eddie. Has medical assistance been provided for the three? (Or maybe directions to the nearest opticians to help them distinguish between the voting buttons?)
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 7 hours 18 minutes ago at 11:31 |
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Well JKS you are right to be concerned. Similar straw polls from around the world regarding the trustworthiness of dubious politicians, organisations and countries revealed the following:
Do you trust Donald Trump? Yes 52% No 48% Do you trust Kim Jong - Un? Yes 82% No 18% Do you trust Keir Starmer? Yes 41% No 59% Do you trust the BBC? Yes 50% No 50% Do you trust Russia Yes 36% No 64% With trust in the RFU currently hovering around 6% (in this far more rigorous poll) as an organisation the RFU has a bit of work to do............best get those £5k a day management consultants in to do a bit more spinning |
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Kimbo
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Posted: 5 hours 37 minutes ago at 13:12 |
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Do you trust random Polls?
Nah.
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 4 hours 23 minutes ago at 14:26 |
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Kimbo my last comments re Donald, Kim and Keir etc were in jest. However the poll on whether members of the Rolling Maul forum trust the RFU is a serious attempt to gauge the mood amongst rugby people. I know this is a small sample size but the poll is being responded to by people who are seriously interested in club rugby in England.
I have put up such polls in the past and from memory generally such polls have registered about 25% to 30% support for the RFU. For the RFU's level of trust to only be at 6% in this poll shows how far such trust has declined. The RFU apologists will say that less than 50 responses is pathetic and means nothing. I disagree.....there is a groundswell for radical change with apparently some 200+ clubs having no confidence in the leadership of the RFU which shows the level of discontent. I suspect that the 94% of RM poll responders who have so far expressed their lack of trust in the RFU is likely to be a representative view of those who have properly thought about the matter
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Posted: 3 hours 51 minutes ago at 14:58 |
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I can’t believe 3 have voted yes.
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Posted: 3 hours 31 minutes ago at 15:18 |
Neither can I, but my disdain for random Polls remains.
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