I think during the season you require both teams to agree to a change, or if requested by Sky of course, then you'd probably need a damn good reason not to play the game.

It's doing a bloody good job of tempting fate, though! Sepp makes RL officials look like saints.

Quote: sally cinnamon "Football is not likely to collapse at any moment, it has a fan base and appeal across the world. Fair point about Sepp Blatter though. I wish the football governing bodies would get rid of these type of officials and appoint someone like Nigel Wood or Maurice Lindsay to stamp corruption out of the game.'" You are right about Maurice. He is a very moral, warm hearted man that would never allow money to get in the way of doing the right thing. Remember the compassionate way he dealt with our own Mike Gregory when he was coaching. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 826386.stm

Quote: sally cinnamon "Football is not likely to collapse at any moment, it has a fan base and appeal across the world. Fair point about Sepp Blatter though. I wish the football governing bodies would get rid of these type of officials and appoint someone like Nigel Wood or Maurice Lindsay to stamp corruption out of the game.'" You are right about Maurice. He is a very moral, warm hearted man that would never allow money to get in the way of doing the right thing. Remember the compassionate way he dealt with our own Mike Gregory when he was coaching. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 826386.stm

Reading that BBC article again made me notice the fact that I had missed the very clever quote in the box at middle page;

"We honoured every penny of our contractual obligations"


Just about sums it up really. Mike died around 18 months later.

I do try and read all of your posts (post joining) as I prefer to get a balanced view on things. Indeed, I can sometimes be swayed by a decent argument to change my view. In short, I would like to think tnat I am open minded.

Sometimes when conducting an argument it is useful to draw parallels with 'other sports' and football as a popular professional sport can provide decent material when talking about league systems, financial rewards, sponsorship TV rights, club v country to name but a few off the top of my head. It is hardly hijacking IMO.

Now if someone started a thread on a large transfer bid for say Rangi Chase and a poster leapt in immediately with never mind that Rooney to Chelsea for £40m is proper transfer deal then that would clearly be gainst the spirit of the forum and IMO the forum to some extent like our mixed crowds, is better served by a bit of common sense and self regulation.