Should the Cardiff Blues have their regional status re-voked

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The regions were put in place for benefit of Welsh rugby and for the benefit of the national team. Now if you are going to neglect your whole region and fill your team with NWQ players then surely something has to be done about it. All that the Cardiff Blues have done thus far is build up an absurd amount of debt and use the money they have been given by the WRU to sighn NWQ players. I was willing to get invovled with supporting my supposed region, but there will be no way on this earth I will be going down to Cardiff to watch a sub-standard southern hemisphere barbarian side have their behinds shown to them week in week out. To this date they have allowed WQ players leave and have replaced tham with sub standard NWQ players. Surely they could have found players of the same quality in and around their region. So, to me, it seems they are neglecting their respsonabilities within their region and sticking two fingers up at the WRU. As a result they should have their regional staus re-voked and give it to an area more deserving i.e North Wales or the Valleys.

Morgannwg wrote:Scarlets?

3 Scarlets in the backs (Preistland, JD2, North), 3 Blues in the backs (Roberts, 1/2p, Cuthberts)

1 Scarlet forward (Owens), 2 Blues forwards (Gethin, Warburton), 2 Dragons forwards (Faletau, Lydiate), 3 Ospreys forwards (Jones, Evans, AWJ)

1. Gethin
2. Owens
3. Jones
4. Charteris
5. Evans
6. Lydiate
7. Warburton
8. Faletau
9. Phillips
10. Preistland
11. North
12. Roberts
13. JD2
14. Cuthbert
15. Halfpenny

Would be by starting 15 if everyone is fit (basically the same, but with Charteris over AWJ)

thats

5 Blues
4 Scarlets
3. Dragons
2 Ospreys
1 Bayonne

Our team was changed that much through the 6 Nations you could argue points for and against your list though. There's Rees, Bennet, Gill, Bradley, Shingler, Reed, RyanJ and Tipuric. Each guy started at least one game.

3 Scarlets
1 Blue
1 Saracen
2 Ospreys.

Risca Rev wrote:

rugbydreamer wrote:bluesman - St Davids is a city, but a v v small one

Yeah it is. Isn't St Asaph one now as well? As of this year and the Queen's Jubilee?

Your right, they made three cities for the celebration of the Queen's Jubblys and St. Asaph was one. I think St. Davids was made officially into a city for the turn of the millenium, however it had been calling itself a city (like St. Asaphs) for donkeys years.


Bluesman - think it is fair to say that the Blues did provide more than their fair share to the welsh squad this season and were at times the top represented region in the match day squad (even if the Scarlets outshone them on the feild ).

I thought anywhere with a cathedral automatically recieved city status?

Smirnoffpriest wrote:I thought anywhere with a cathedral automatically recieved city status?

I thought that too.

That used to be the case, but now you need the Queen to wave her magic wand over the place, or whatever she does.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:That used to be the case, but now you need the Queen to wave her magic wand over the place, or whatever she does.

Don't you just love the queen and her pointless power-welding ceremonies?

Power-welding? I thought she was too delicate for that!

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Power-welding? I thought she was too delicate for that!

Delicate is not the word I'd use for her