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Maybe I'm old school but I basically agree. Like the schools once discipline breaks down everything starts to fall apart. Few do-gooders seem to wield too much influence. Break the law go to jail. Need something similar to certain US states 3 convictions and it's prison time. Seeing press...

okay so in player terms 2 maybe not be a big difference but financially could represent a large % difference in player budget so not necessarily most even of playing fields

But is rugby strictly flat rate? Couldn't The 2 player exemption could see Newcastle paying their 2 players 100k each and Wasps paying their 2 players 1m each.?

FFP has had several legal challenges all of which seem to have failed. Arguably a flat rate salary cap is considered more vulnerable to a challenge than a proportional one.

It's a bit of a mish-mash. There's a cap but there is an allowance for academy graduates and it seems you can exclude 2 players from the cap and seemingly pay them what you want.

Doubt it. No business should be allowed to damage its employees by gambling with their future. It is not sound business practice to rely on shareholders loans. Been a couple of clubs got in a right mess when owner died and heirs didn't want to carry on and wanted the money back. Sport does have...

they like a fix. They've managed to "arrange" being awarded the tournament, they've managed to "arrange" the easiest group so a goal or two shouldn't be difficult to arrange

rightly so. dreadful bowling performance. ridiculous resting Buttler for Billings. said it earlier bowlers going through the motions assuming batters will bail them out. don't care what Morgan said before the game they took Scotland far too lightly. Normally they would bat first and make the...

says a lot about CC cricket when you've got a 42 yr old medium pacer opening the attack.

Belly ton. obviously a wicket that isn't easy to score on so any lead useful

how come nearly all these clubs seem to be breaking the wage % rules? apart from that what a mess. Championship even worse financial state. surely can't be sustainable

g Gotta assume Scotland will bowl far more intelligently than England did and be captained better - Morgan should have been onto his bowlers about their length from early on

add Plunkett to the list - always goes for plenty but occasionally picks up a couple of wickets. just feel bowlers / selectors general thinking is batsmen will normally get us out of trouble. all 3 quick just running up and going through the motions (until Willey finally went round the wicket)

don't care what sort of wicket this is or the boundary sizes - this is a woeful/clueless bowling performance. going to add Scotland to Holland & Ireland who have beaten England in one day cricket?

no surprises there. Size difference like that just makes it a farce. Fury never going to be an entertainer in the ring. Just tries to do enough and no more, Any Fury fight going to be pretty dull unless someone can shake him out of his comfort zone. Like he's said most people only watch him...

5 stone advantage seems a bit much. needs to be convincing if he's to make a point

looks a very sparse crowd for a game like this

2 good wickets, need to get Ali and just keep an eye on Whiteley.

292 much better than it looked like being at halfway stage. Early wickets key - Ferguson already got a couple of tons in 1st few innings.

Got the phone set up for streaming. Looking forward to this afternoon's game with the old enemy.