So, the worst kept secret in European rugby has finally been confirmed, and the PRO14 has been announced in a fairly muted fashion. It’s sort of like having something unpleasant pushed through your door and finding the culprit running away when you go to look! But Celtic Rugby and publicity have never really mixed and I guess that’s why we are where we are today.
Unfortunately though, still no actual fixtures. It’s still going to take the broadcasters at least a week to pick over the fresh corpse for their choice morsels and then we’ll probably only get be the first couple of months worth. Time and effort should maybe have been invested in sorting that mess out rather than bring more teams into an already broken system.
It’s interesting that “supporters” are only mentioned once in the 1,909 words in the official statement and that’s to assure everyone that they be keeping the lucrative national derbies. As if they would ever drop them! We now have 21 fixtures that have been cobbled together in a mish . . .
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