RWC Week 4: Scotland v Romania
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 4: Scotland v Romania:
@MN5 said in RWC Week 4: Scotland v Romania:
Didn’t Romania used to be ok ?
Decades ago they were really good. Better than Italy and capable of beating France and Wales. Toured NZ in the '70's (?) beating a NZ 2nd XV, I think.
A lot of their players and structure came from the armed forces and the collapse of communism had a huge impact when state funding disappeared.
This.
They were effectively state funded professionals in an amateur era. They were at the top of the second tier in Europe and beat France and Ireland from memory. Not sure if they knocked over Wales once?
Edit: They drew with Ireland, they beat France 7 times!
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Yeah was just looking it up. They beat a strong Welsh side in Cardiff in 1988.
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@Catogrande said in RWC Week 4: Scotland v Romania:
Yeah was just looking it up. They beat a strong Welsh side in Cardiff in 1988.
Did our bit for East-West relations
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@Catogrande said in RWC Week 4: Scotland v Romania:
They were effectively state funded professionals in an amateur era
Friend of mine played 14 for the Met Police in the '80's. He said he was effectively a professional player during the rugby season as were many of the Armed Forces teams.
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Yeah it’s easy to forget how strong some of the police sides were. Devon & Cornwall jousted with Exeter, Plymouth, Redruth etc and South Wales Police were in the top tier in Wales. I played a few times v Exeter Police. Always a punch up and always they started it. Good guys in the clubhouse afterwards though.
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When I was at Huddersfield Polytechnic between 1989-1993 our opening fixture for the season was always against West Yorkshire Police
We used to get beaten up in the first half, then used to run them ragged in the second
One of the best beige buffets you'll see after the match and free beer until we wanted it
All on a Wednesday afternoon
Superb
Added bonus
Coppers used to come in to the Poly to ask the boys to appear in line ups at Huddersfield nick
£10 cash in hand and food & drink laid on
At that time my monthly rent was £25
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All went well until you were identified?
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@Catogrande said in RWC Week 4: Scotland v Romania:
All went well until you were identified?
Mike had a cellar at a different address.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 4: Scotland v Romania:
@Catogrande said in RWC Week 4: Scotland v Romania:
All went well until you were identified?
Mike had a cellar at a different address.
And for just £25 / month
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