Daily Archive for October 4th, 2009

IRB replaces replacement process with replacement replacement process

Posted in Rugby on Oct 4th, 2009

Under new rules announced by the IRB, specially trained medical staff will be required for all future rugby matches to guarantee the replacement process does not allow a repeat of Bloodgate.  To ensure each game is conducted in the proper Corinthian spirit, an independent team of vampire, butcher and coroner will be appointed to support [...]

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Pickering tinkering in ticketing?

Posted in Rugby on Oct 4th, 2009

Softly spoken, black-gloved WRU enforcer Dai “With Your Boots On” Pickering has come within a gnat’s bumcrack of being embarrassed into relinquishing his discretionary match ticket allowance for a forthcoming Autumn international. As WRU Group Chairman Executive Managing Principal Director Head, Pickering is legislatively entitled to first dibs on just 35,000 tickets for each Wales [...]

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