England v Baa Baas match called off because several Baa Baas went out to a restaurant.

[JaJaDingDong]

England v Barbarians called off after players breach Covid rules www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/54656359

Idiots. What made them think that would be ok? And that a group of enormous men like them wouldn't get noticed.
They've even had a social room laid on just for them in their hotel.
Arrogant tossers. All of them.

Fluid that's such a shame. You must have been so disappointed.

Super Saturday - last day of 6 nations - is next week, though I think the Ireland match s starting shortly is a 6 nations game too.
Wales v France is a friendly warm up.

I'm wondering if the Wales game next week can go ahead. It's in Llanelli because the millennium stadium is currently a nightingale hospital, but Wales is in quite a strict lockdown for the next few weeks.

I guess they might think about that on Friday JaJa.

@RunBackwards

Awww and there was me thinking it was only footballers who ever let the side down and rugby was played by socially responsible gents with perfect manners

Think that applies more to the fans than the players.

What plonkers eh? Everything laid on for them and they still can't manage it.

@JaJaDingDong

DH thinks some of the others are Fijian players. I think the respective RFUs should give them a short ban or some other punishment.

Chris Robshaw Richard Wigglesworth Sean Maitland Jackson Wray Tom De Glanville Joel Kpoku Fergus McFadden

Are the names of the players I've seen,.so far, are the ones who couldn't grasp what 'stay in the hotel' means.

Apparently they went out twice! 7 on the first night, 11 on the second.
Unbelievable.

Fergus Mc Fadden the wee shite.

He has just finished playing for my boys, Leinster.

Hi @JaJaDingDong, the Wales v Scotland game will take part as they're allowed to do sport as long as it's within a bubble. I personally think the venue should be changed. But if they think it's safe then hey ho.
Gutted over England v Barbarians but at least the Edinburgh game is on.

Oh and the video of the dirty dozen is circulating on social media. No idea how they thought they would get away with it.

For me it gets worse.

Just discovered good friends got married in secret yesterday, the lowest of low key weddings, they had taken one of the tables at the club and that was to be their way of sharing in a socially isolated way their happy weekend with some of their friends, they would have had their table and there would have been so much good will in the room for them.

Oh Fluid

You should tweet them, or write to them via the Barbarians to make them realise how thoughtless and irresponsible they were.

I am halfway through a stinking letter to all of them.

Good for you.

It is a work in progress, but if anyone is interested I am happy to post it here.

Oh Fluid not surprised you feel doubly let down.

I'd be interested in seeing it please.

In the name of God come down from your ivory towers and find out what is going on, on the ground.

In case you hadn’t noticed there is a pandemic, people are dying from Covid 19, truth be told some people are probably dying from loneliness.

The world as we all know went into super lockdown and everything stopped.
However, Covid didn’t go away and we have had to find ways around the situation.

The RFU went to great lengths to create a bubble for everyone so that you guys could play and we could watch the England vs Barbarians game.

My rugby club holds hundreds, there were sixty, yes sixty socially distanced seats available on Sunday to watch the match.

Sixty, can you imagine the impact on the bar takings? Clubs up and down the country are teetering on a knife edge financially and were relying on that income to keep the wolf from the door for another few months.

I personally have had the longest lock down ever, I was diagnosed with breast cancer last September I then rolled from a lumpectomy into utterly vile chemo followed by radiotherapy, I finished the day they locked us down. I have an underlying heart condition so have shielded quite hard.

I took a long time to assess and weigh up the risk of going to the club and decided that it was worth the risk to watch a match see friends from a distance.

In the meantime you guys decided that a few drinks were worth undoing all the work of the RFU, and pi**ing on rugby supporters up and down the country, from what I hear you weren’t even discreet about it. Not once, but twice.

There is an Irish saying:

Deoch isteach, chiall amach.

Drink in – sense out.

Unless you were drinking in camp pre your decision you didn’t even have that excuse when you slithered out of your bubble and ruined so much.

I could go on at length about how let down I feel and how I thought that rugby was different and how you have brought the game into disrepute, but I won’t I will close by saying shame on you all.

And to Fergus Mc Fadden I am embarrassed that you ever wore a Leinster jersey, so to you I say

Mo naire thú. (This is Irish for shame on you, but has quite a harsh guttural delivery, I might prick his conscience.)

Im sorry @FinallyFluid that sounds like a great night you all had planned. I'm hoping the Scotland player gets dropped from our team. It's the second time he's been caught for this.

Who wrote words in bold FinallyFluid?

I did @CherryValanc

My friend's father used them in a letter of complaint a long time ago, and when he received a reply from the CEO he was writing to he told GB that his letter caught his attention immediately, they have always stuck with me.

You certainly come over as being furious 😁

I'd be interested in hearing whether or not you get a response - who are you going to send the letter to?

I'm wondering whether to send my own now, inspired by you.