Frankie Gavin leaves the Olympics

Even before the competition starts, our most promising of young hopefuls Frankie Gavin is leaving the Olympics. This superb boxer with a quality of performance which made him a certainty for a medal ~ probably a gold ~ has received a knock-down punch without even getting in the ring.

And the problem is not drugs, nor fitness but the simplest of things ~ getting his weight right for the competition.

He has weighed in too heavy for the division!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ask you.....can you believe this? We send an athlete, a brilliant boxer to the Games and the coaching staff can't even enter him for the appropriate weight devision and/or can't prepare him to fight at that weight.

The mind boggles!!!!!!!!!!

Name & Shame

Should England Rugby Management name the players who have been involved in various sexual incidents whilst in NZ recently?

Yes ~ for the sake of all team members! At the present time all of the players are under scrutiny for the wrongdoings of a minority.

NAME & SHAME the few , I say!! For the sake of the good names of the majority.

England Rugby ~ What a shambles....

Rugby Has Gone Mad!
Six Nations England
by cwatts81 (U8942103) 16 April 2008

The rest of the Rugby World must be loving this. Its a shambles and we clealy dont have a clear view of where we are going next.Surely we are not going to have a review after every tournament and create this media circus!We are going to have a Manager now? one that chooses tactics and teams but does not play a hand in training? We have an "Elite Director of Rugby" who makes one decision, then goes back on it despite finishin second in the World Cup and second in the Six nations all in less than two years.This is mess and the Rugby World is laughin at us.One man is responsible, not Ashton, not Ford, not Baron......Rob Andrew, get that clown out of there and lets get back to basics....cos this is horrible.