Viewers complain about too much Rugby Union on the beeb.
Quite right too, even more scandalous is the vast amounts of our money they squander on the rights for the 6 Nations with no competition, making it the most expensive program per viewer on the box.
I’m sure they’ll respond to the public’s concerns next time the renewal comes up, honest!
According to this article in the Rugby League section of the BBC website, there is “a new curiosity about the goings on at Twickenham” amongst Rugby League fans due to the fact Andy Farrell is set to make his england debut this weekened, in a team also likely to feature Jason Robinson.
Though the author, Dave Woods, acknowledges that “Faz is good, but he’s not good enough to make generations of League fans forget all the reasons why they don’t really like English rugby union” he goes on to claim that “at least we will be watching”.
What a strange comment to make, I wonder who he claims to be speaking for, I certainly won’t be tuning in to watch union all of a sudden – and not for “historic, cultural and social reasons”, but because the sport is tedious shite, and I’d rather spend my afternoon sticking needles in my eyes than watching it, former Rugby League players in the team or not.
In the blurb and hype surrounding tonights edition of Panorama the programme makers claimed they had uncovered evidence that would “blow the game apart”. Did it? I don’t believe it did, it was only confirmation for most football fans of things that we know go on surrounding transfer deals in football.
To me the programme contained very little real concrete evidence of wrong-doing, just a lot of supposition and a lot of nudge, nudge, wink, wink. There does seem to be a paper trail showing that two agents, Craig Allardyce and Peter Harrison have been involved in the making and receipt of illegal payments but there was little real evidence of any actual “bungs” being received by any managers, or others officially involved in clubs. The subject of illegal approaches for players was also brought up, but I for one don’t have a clue how that can ever be cut out.
There are those that say that bungs go on in the game, always have and we should just live with it – but for me that is a totally unacceptable attitude and this is something that needs to be weeded out of the game. In the end it is us, as supporters who suffer, when money that we have put in (through admission money, merchandise purchases and TV subscriptions) leaves our club, and the game, in this way and it is us who suffer if certain managers only buy players represented by certin agents, because someone, somewhere is getting a cut of the deal and not because they are the best option available to the club.
Can this sort of corruption be cut out of the game? I’m not sure, but the FA have got to try all they can to make sure it is.
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