Scrum V Live. Scrum V Dead.
In 2014, protesters took to the streets of Dublin to campaign against impending levies on domestic water usage in the emerald isle. How ridiculous, I thought. Water is a commodity; I pay for mine – what are they moaning about? Upon reading that BBC Wales had lost its right to air The Guinness Pro 14 as of next season, I was ready for a protest of my own. Scrum V Live on a Friday night is an institution. How dare they? Meanwhile, rugby revelers in England, France, Australia, South Africa & New Zealand would have been vindicated in thinking that my petulance was in itself ridiculous. Live rugby is a commodity; “we pay for ours – what are the Welsh lot moaning about?” Welsh rugby fans, like Irish water fans before them, have become accustomed over time, to getting a good thing without having to part with a chunk of the pay packet in return. What we can draw from both examples, is that when a rather agreeable norm is whipped away from us, it is easy to go full throttle o