2019/20 LSE3 Week 4 predictions

Early days, but here's hoping Combe are on the way back! I should try to keep my hand in.

Bedford 0 v Cup 5
Brexiteers 4 v Dorking 1
Irish 5 v Beach boys 0
7/8oaks 4 v Guildord 1
Tring 4 v wombles 1
Tonbridge 0 v Hertford 5
1000s 1 v islanders 4

Bedford 0-5 Sidcup
CS Stags 1-5 Dorking
LIWG 5-0 Brighton
Sevenoaks 5-1 Guildford
Tring 1-5 Wimbledon
Tunbridge Wells 1-4 Hertford
Rochford 1-4 Guernsey

It’s called an amateur club dealing with injuries and players going to Japan! Players don’t commit to the rugby season like yesteryear and when you are managing a smallish squad results will differ. TJs on the road today at Bournemouth, thumped them, but cancelled their 2s game last night through lack of players. Preferences are different now and especially so in National One and Two. Our Club was lively until the last bell, but if you are going to change the model of your club through paying players, then you are potentially killing off your 2s,3s and so on. It’s a Club’s individual choice but we have seen casualties and there will be more. Grassroots is the key.

That’s a lie!!! I know a welsh lad there whom I’ve played alongside. I can assure you he is receiving a match day win bonus. That sir is being paid!!! You can get off your high horse now!!

Edited by Moreclubsthantiger - 30 Sep 2019 at 22:22

 TJs on the road today at Bournemouth, thumped them, but cancelled their 2s game last night through lack of players. Kent table shows TJs 2s top of the table in their league. 

Moreclubsthantiger wrote: That’s a lie!!! I know a welsh lad there whom I’ve played alongside. I can assure you he is receiving a match day win bonus. That sir is being paid!!! You can get off your high horse now!!

I forgot to say.... are you a lier or just a moron? Not sure which of the Welsh boys would want to play with you. With a name like “moreclubsthantiger” perhaps that’s a reflection on your own need to move for the money??!!!

Oh I do love these holier than though forum posts, it will always go down to what a persons view on paying players is. Such a pity Kentishman let himself down with his grammar!! 

Cannon wrote: Oh I do love these holier than though forum posts, it will always go down to what a persons view on paying players is. Such a pity Kentishman let himself down with his grammar!!  I'm sure Oaks are "whiter than white" now and with the current RFU rules for paying players they are playing by the rules.   I'm sure certain local Kent clubs are just waiting for evidence to hang each other after the Medway debacle. At the time there were some interesting comments on how rife paying was in Kent and how blinkered the enquiry was.

Hi Cannon, the important difference between my comments on here those of our tiger friend are that mine come from a factual standpoint. His, I’m afraid, are all fabricated lies intended to cause trouble. Nobody has been on here claiming their club is “whiter than white” but to categorically say that a club is paying match fees, when it is not, is totally out of order. He needs to step up or shut up. Hope that grammar was ok for you!!

Kentishman wrote: Cannon wrote: Oh I do love these holier than though forum posts, it will always go down to what a persons view on paying players is. Such a pity Kentishman let himself down with his grammar!!  I'm sure Oaks are "whiter than white" now and with the current RFU rules for paying players they are playing by the rules.   I'm sure certain local Kent clubs are just waiting for evidence to hang each other after the Medway debacle. At the time there were some interesting comments on how rife paying was in Kent and how blinkered the enquiry was. Hi Cannon, the important difference between my comments on here those of our tiger friend are that mine come from a factual standpoint. His, I’m afraid, are all fabricated lies intended to cause trouble. Nobody has been on here claiming their club is “whiter than white” but to categorically say that a club is paying match fees, when it is not, is totally out of order. He needs to step up or shut up. Hope that grammar was ok for you!!

Payment doesn't have to be in match fees.....

I'm not one to stir the pot, but being local to Sevenoaks and knowing plenty of current coaches and players at most of the clubs in my area (TJs, T Wells, 7 Oaks, Combe etc) that the "we don't pay anything" I feel is a bit stretched. 
Whilst money may not change hands, 7 Oaks has had its fair share of "foreign" players in recent years. Now 7 Oaks is lovely and it may be the case that players travel from the other side of the world of their own accord to live and work there....or it may not be. 
What I think isn't based on any facts, just talking with well connected people in the local rugby network. I try to take everything I hear in the rugby circles with a pinch of salt but equally there usually isn't smoke with at least some embers. Or it may genuinely be a load of twaddle! 

This will probably be construed as a "dig". It's really not. Out of all of my local clubs, I've always liked 7 Oaks and the way they have operated in recent years. With an incredible emphasis on "one club" and creating an atmosphere that people want to be involved in. Hat's off to all involved. 

But one thing you will have to accept at this level is that you won't change what people think of your club when it comes to the whole "payment" issue. Not that I see it as an issue if it's done in the right way. The rumor mill is rife and stubborn. 

Just enjoy the ride. No one really cares what's going on outside of these forums anyway. 7 Oaks is enjoying incredible success at the moment. 

Edited by Kentish Odd balls - 01 Oct 2019 at 21:24