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Open letter from Anthony Buchanan

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Topic: Open letter from Anthony Buchanan
Posted By: Scarlet O'Hara
Subject: Open letter from Anthony Buchanan
Date Posted: 01 June 2019 at 6:21pm
For those that have not yet seen it.
 
http://llanellirfc.co.uk/open-letter-fr?fbclid=IwAR3zFyTx6KteekxH5hSB8JXbNvtqUrZwb_xco8S_bABJx8CMZQAkR2G2-74" rel="nofollow - llanellirfc.co.uk/open-letter-fr




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Posted By: M.M.
Date Posted: 01 June 2019 at 6:58pm
The RFC needs more support.


Posted By: 157cb
Date Posted: 01 June 2019 at 7:03pm

Excellent article I hope a lot of Scarlets supporters living in Llanelli area will show there support for the RFC next season and turn up in good numbers .


Posted By: Wil Chips
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 8:22am
Strange selection of players to identify ... suggests no link to the Scarlets pathway.


Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 11:01am
Headline names, perhaps, favoured over pathway products.

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Posted By: 157cb
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 12:01pm
Originally posted by Wil Chips Wil Chips wrote:

Strange selection of players to identify ... suggests no link to the Scarlets pathway.

   I think the point been made his none of the players mentioned  came through our pathway and still made it as top end players after cutting there teeth with Llanelli RFC  


Posted By: reesytheexile
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 12:18pm
Good letter and  I agree that players mentioned did seem out of cinque with the core marketed thrust  of the RFC as a player pathway club,but then we have picked up players like Ben Morgan and Liam , but guess this may reflect the Gareth Jenkins scouting connection.Anyway the letter is overall a very good one as the RFC needs more money independent of the Scarlets board. How these new RFC memberships dovetail into the reduced  RFC admission that Scarlets season ticket holders have enjoyed next season does need clarification Asap   so fans of both Region and the RFC know where they stand.

An important aspect is of course the level of team that the RFC can put out. If we get defeated for half the season again due to  lack of player maturity the fan base momentum will fall away and it is vital that a decent squad takes the field from game one not a team littered with junior club permits.  Interesting times 👍




Posted By: Wil Chips
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 1:03pm
Originally posted by 157cb 157cb wrote:

Originally posted by Wil Chips Wil Chips wrote:

Strange selection of players to identify ... suggests no link to the Scarlets pathway.


   I think the point been made his none of the players mentioned  came through our pathway and still made it as top end players after cutting there teeth with Llanelli RFC  


And all bar Aaron left us to ply their trade in England, some leaving under a cloud.

The best linkage is surely to promote players who came through the system to play largely for the Scarlets, countless examples. Ben, Owen and Sanjay started with the RFC at around the age of 20, none were a product of our system.

I don’t get it, I’m a bit dull mind.



Posted By: Tim Opolis
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 3:25pm
Llanelli RFC has long provided the pathway for players to go on and flourish on the international stage. In recent seasons, late developers like Liam Williams, Aaron Shingler, Owen Williams and Ben Morgan have become accomplished Test match rugby players.

I read it as they develop players through the pathway and pick up late developers.


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Posted By: reesytheexile
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 3:50pm
Originally posted by Tim Opolis Tim Opolis wrote:

Llanelli RFC has long provided the pathway for players to go on and flourish on the international stage. In recent seasons, late developers like Liam Williams, Aaron Shingler, Owen Williams and Ben Morgan have become accomplished Test match rugby players.

I read it as they develop players through the pathway and pick up late developers.
I am sure that’s the intent . It’s just a little untidy in the wording and it’s as you say with late developers being the icing on the cake 


Posted By: ladram
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 4:28pm
so sad to see the begging bowl out again,it says on WOL that buchs has left the WRU job to do this for nothing?


Posted By: Wil Chips
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 4:53pm
The WRU Board was cut back from 18 to 12 I think.

Anyway, I’ll be behind the entity.


Posted By: reesytheexile
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 5:17pm
Originally posted by ladram ladram wrote:

so sad to see the begging bowl out again,it says on WOL that buchs has left the WRU job to do this for nothing?
Correct. Numbers have been cut so his post at WRU ends - hence the time.  He will be a volunteer like almost everyone involved over the years 


Posted By: ladram
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 5:35pm
Originally posted by reesytheexile reesytheexile wrote:

Originally posted by ladram ladram wrote:

so sad to see the begging bowl out again,it says on WOL that buchs has left the WRU job to do this for nothing?
Correct. Numbers have been cut so his post at WRU ends - hence the time.  He will be a volunteer like almost everyone involved over the years 
hopefully the region will supply players earlier in the season than they did this year.


Posted By: scarletnut
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 5:46pm
Originally posted by ladram ladram wrote:

Originally posted by reesytheexile reesytheexile wrote:

Originally posted by ladram ladram wrote:

so sad to see the begging bowl out again,it says on WOL that buchs has left the WRU job to do this for nothing?
Correct. Numbers have been cut so his post at WRU ends - hence the time.  He will be a volunteer like almost everyone involved over the years 
hopefully the region will supply players earlier in the season than they did this year.
The region has A team commitments first.

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Posted By: 157cb
Date Posted: 02 June 2019 at 8:02pm

Not 100% certain on this but the Welsh Premiership does not start until late September next season and will not clash with the A league in its entirety .


Posted By: Why
Date Posted: 03 June 2019 at 1:33pm
If you can afford it, then it is a no brainer. 

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Posted By: Fscarlet
Date Posted: 20 June 2019 at 2:19pm
Didn't want to start a new thread but common sense has, it seems, prevailed at the WRU. They have scrapped the promotion/relegation play off, it will now be a simple one up one down for the winners of the Championship & bottom side of the Premiership.


Posted By: scarletsrules
Date Posted: 21 June 2019 at 11:15am
Originally posted by Fscarlet Fscarlet wrote:

Didn't want to start a new thread but common sense has, it seems, prevailed at the WRU. They have scrapped the promotion/relegation play off, it will now be a simple one up one down for the winners of the Championship & bottom side of the Premiership.


Got to feel for Pontypool though as the Championship this year is going to be a lot tougher with Neath, Cross Keys, Bedwas and Bargoed in it.

Obviously im happy that the play off allowed Llanelli to escape relegation last year but I do feel for Pontypool



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