Players Pay Price As Sport Sacrifices the Seasons for Increased Revenue
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MORE and more the seasons overlap. Here is a Test match being played at Lord's before the rugby or football seasons are over. Indeed it's arguable that we scarcely have either summer or winter games now. After all England's cricketers were still playing in India a few weeks ago, while football and rugby players will scarcely have time to draw breath before they are called up for pre- season training and "friendlies".
Easy to say it doesn't make sense. Easy to agree with John Beattie when he argued here a few days ago that summer tours for our rugby players are a relic of the amateur past, and should be discontinued. It won't happen of course, for two reasons, good or bad as you think fit.See the full content of this document
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Players Pay Price As Sport Sacrifices the Seasons for Increased Revenue
The first is simple. If the SRU was to decide to scrap summer tours and overseas internationals, then - tit for tat - why should the Southern Hemisphere countries come here in November for the autumn internationals that are...
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