Big story in rugby as European Champions are docked thirty five points.

[the other bob wilson]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/50300756

[Stavross1927]

Absolutely mental, can’t say I expected such a hefty punishment but good on the authorities for trying to stop financial cheating.

Will be interesting if they are not successful in appealing the punishment, if they can get rid of players quickly as they must be in danger of breaking this season’s salary cap and if they avoid relegation. Also what happens to the titles they won during the affected seasons?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Should do the same in football.

[blue lewj]

Good on them if they are guilty.

You wouldn't see the same in football though.
Too many corrupt $hithouses in charge.

[dembethewarrior]

Should do the same in football.

Talking about this in work today, they’ve done it to an Australian team who also lost their trophies apparently (don’t know a lot about rugby and haven’t checked)

Will never happen in football. Imagine giving Man City/Liverpool/Barca/Real/Bayern/Juve etc a similar fine? There would be hell to play.

[surge]

The size of the points deduction would not have been high enough to relegate them the previous season, the size of the fine being greater than the entire playing budget for the Newport Gwent Dragons. Money matters in sport and if there is evidence of broken regulations then there should be massive punishments in any sport.

[Majorblue]

I would imagine Sarries/Wray will roll out the lawyers and a deal will be stuck.
Reduced points deduction, fine stands but suspended for a few years subject to them confirming adherence to the salary cap.
As others have said money talks loudest in sport and the governing bodies are being neutered by the bigger clubs in most sports imo.

[William Treseder]

Glasgow Rangers got off lightly with their shenanigans a few seasons ago. Football authorities all over the world are very weak.

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Glasgow Rangers got off lightly with their shenanigans a few seasons ago. Football authorities all over the world are very weak.

didn't they get relegated 4 divisions or something?! That's not exactly a slap on the wrist

[City123]

Glasgow Rangers got off lightly with their shenanigans a few seasons ago. Football authorities all over the world are very weak.

The company was liquidated and the club were relegated to the fourth tier

[William Treseder]

didn't they get relegated 4 divisions or something?! That's not exactly a slap on the wrist

It sounds and looks like a heavy punishment, but let’s be realistic. It was the Scottish leagues. it was only Ever gonna take them consecutive seasons to get back to the top table, as they were still spending dough they didn’t have on much better players than all the teams around them could afford in the lower leagues.
They are already challenging for top position in the SPL, but are reportedly deep in debt again.

[dembethewarrior]

It sounds and looks like a heavy punishment, but let’s be realistic. It was the Scottish leagues. it was only Ever gonna take them consecutive seasons to get back to the top table, as they were still spending dough they didn’t have on much better players than all the teams around them could afford in the lower leagues.
They are already challenging for top position in the SPL, but are reportedly deep in debt again.

But they got relegated all them divisions right?

[William Treseder]

But they got relegated all them divisions right?

God, your quick off the mark !!

[dembethewarrior]

God, your quick off the mark !!

So quite a punishment then. Unless they were gonna put them in the highland leagues what the **** were you expecting?

[William Treseder]

So quite a punishment then. Unless they were gonna put them in the highland leagues what the **** were you expecting?

It was a slap on the wrist in Scottish footballing terms. They kept their squad, ground, name, trophy’s won whilst cheating and were able to keep signing decent players, Enabling then to bounce right back in consecutive seasons.
No real punishment at all.
If the man in the street cheated HMRC a fraction of the amount Rangers did, they’d have had all their assets stripped, and lost absolutely everything.

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It was a slap on the wrist in Scottish footballing terms. They kept their squad, ground, name, trophy’s won whilst cheating and were able to keep signing decent players, Enabling then to bounce right back in consecutive seasons.
No real punishment at all.
If the man in the street cheated HMRC a fraction of the amount Rangers did, they’d have had all their assets stripped, and lost absolutely everything.

trophies

[William Treseder]

trophies

Thanks. Good to see you’re keeping an eye on things 👍