Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Fed up with power play

Why is it that the only institutions who can occasionally surpass Welsh political parties in accomplishing meaningless point-scoring are those which run Welsh sport – the impending court battle between the WRU and the regional teams being a prime example.

Anyone interested in rugby must be getting fed up with the litigation and mud-slinging that now seems to come around as regularly as the Heineken Cup. Whether the motivation is money or influence – and they often come down to the same thing – it really is time for the damaging in-fighting to be resolved before the uncertainty it generates starts to affect the coaching and playing dimensions of the game.

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