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Originally posted by BigChief BigChief wrote:

[QUOTE=islander]One weekend, Newcastle continue their losing start to season while Donny - possibly the only Champ team who'll pass the Prem audit this season - win at Ealing. At this stage it appears the end-of-season play-off might actually materialise.

And then the following weekend another Prem club make a swathe of players available for the Exiles, who win at Castle Park and deny the hosts anything, leaving a dent in their hopes of winning the league.

Does anyone think the sequence of events above may be connected?
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or maybe Donny were just rubbish on the night, sailed too close to the wind and ultimately lost a bore-fest of a game ?? (I wasn't there but have read a couple of reports that highlight an error filled match on their part)

This being so it isn't any fault of London Scottish on the night (perhaps it was the ref as another poster put it ?). 

I recall a win against Pirates last week who had 6 or 7 Exeter Chiefs players on the night ?  No sustained assault (by posters on here) on Pirates for their connections - or Hartpury/Gloucester with their players for that matter......

Oh wait, I forgot - sorry, its the height of 'London Scottish bashing season' (yet again) - roll on the weekend!!! Clap

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I’m not sure that we have fielded 6 or 7 Chiefs players in any match this season. Happy to stand corrected if proved wrong factually.
I think the main point about LS was that it was reported by Quins that Scottish were fielding 12 Quins players in one squad,
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Originally posted by FHLH FHLH wrote:

Originally posted by Halliford Halliford wrote:

Caleb Ashworth played for Esher and scored 2 tries on debut, having played for Exiles the week before. 

And therein lies the worst of DR. Young Ashworth should join a club and play for a season at least IMHO

I am told he is now with us for the season, although ….
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Rugby is a minority sport, always has been, soccer rules the waves, so attracting crowds is always going to be an uphill struggle, take Leicester Lions, just over 4 miles from the Welford Road stadium, they are never going to get a large crowd, even when the Tigers play on a Sunday or a Friday evening.
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Radio Cornwall listed 6 for Chiefs and 9 for LS that evening CE (happy to be corrected also)

I happened to be on holiday in Mauritius, listening to Radio Cornwall commentating on a game in Richmond! (decent balanced commentary too)

Im not supporting the maximum DRs etc (albeit within the rules).  In last years fixture I chatted to an old chap (Pirates) at the match - he appeared to be a senior member or official etc and, in short, he told me he and his fellow support were just fed up with it - they truly wanted their own local players - but didn't see a way around the Chiefs DRs being drafted in.  

A lot of supporters at LS want that too (their own) - but we are where we are and a formal partnership with Harlequins is in place.

It doesn't mean London Scottish people should have to accept the sustained and constant abuse on here - without reacting to it.

Many of us were around 'in the olden days' and went through relegation from the Prem to the bottom of the pyramid (alongside Richmond) and have been ever present in the journey back through to L2.  I read a comment recently that stated we (LS + Richmond) were knifed in the back by the RFU and others during a then re-org - I and others have our own views but that is history now and another topic altogether. 

Our Amateur sides are going great guns through the lower regional leagues and are well supported.

 
 
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Originally posted by KnightsBoy KnightsBoy wrote:

Originally posted by BigChief BigChief wrote:

[QUOTE=islander]One weekend, Newcastle continue their losing start to season while Donny - possibly the only Champ team who'll pass the Prem audit this season - win at Ealing. At this stage it appears the end-of-season play-off might actually materialise.

And then the following weekend another Prem club make a swathe of players available for the Exiles, who win at Castle Park and deny the hosts anything, leaving a dent in their hopes of winning the league.

Does anyone think the sequence of events above may be connected?
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or maybe Donny were just rubbish on the night, sailed too close to the wind and ultimately lost a bore-fest of a game ?? (I wasn't there but have read a couple of reports that highlight an error filled match on their part)

This being so it isn't any fault of London Scottish on the night (perhaps it was the ref as another poster put it ?). 

I recall a win against Pirates last week who had 6 or 7 Exeter Chiefs players on the night ?  No sustained assault (by posters on here) on Pirates for their connections - or Hartpury/Gloucester with their players for that matter......

Oh wait, I forgot - sorry, its the height of 'London Scottish bashing season' (yet again) - roll on the weekend!!! Clap

Well said

Doesn’t matter who the other team put out, we are quite capable of screwing it up on our own anyway. 
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Originally posted by BigChief BigChief wrote:

Originally posted by islander islander wrote:

One weekend, Newcastle continue their losing start to season while Donny - possibly the only Champ team who'll pass the Prem audit this season - win at Ealing. At this stage it appears the end-of-season play-off might actually materialise.

And then the following weekend another Prem club make a swathe of players available for the Exiles, who win at Castle Park and deny the hosts anything, leaving a dent in their hopes of winning the league.

Does anyone think the sequence of events above may be connected?

or maybe Donny were just rubbish on the night, sailed too close to the wind and ultimately lost a bore-fest of a game ?? (I wasn't there but have read a couple of reports that highlight an error filled match on their part)

This being so it isn't any fault of London Scottish on the night (perhaps it was the ref as another poster put it ?). 

I recall a win against Pirates last week who had 6 or 7 Exeter Chiefs players on the night ?  No sustained assault (by posters on here) on Pirates for their connections - or Hartpury/Gloucester with their players for that matter......

Oh wait, I forgot - sorry, its the height of 'London Scottish bashing season' (yet again) - roll on the weekend!!! Clap

Infamy they've all got it in for me!

(Not to mention all the other teams full of DR players but let's pretend it's just London Quins eh?)
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If Prem 2 accepts the proposal for all clubs to have 15 D/R players then it will become interesting if say at the end of the season London Scottish win the league and Harlequins come bottom of Prem 1 (A remote possibility I know) then to play off would be Harlequins v Harlequins 2 . This could happen with other clubs as well. How can any Prem club be expected to aspire to Prem 1 if it then has to replace their whole squad. I assume this will be the same if any Prem 2 gets relegated to Nat 1 
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On the other hand, there was the statement from the club that they were working toward cutting the number of DRs to no more than six in the match day squad.

There is what the premiership wants, whan the championship clubs want - and then what they can afford.
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