As so-called keepers of the sport at national level continue the dirty scrum, the keepers of the cradle at school level are biding their time to benefit by marketing the junior pawns:
It has now been confirmed that Sri Lanka Rugby has become a laughing stock in the eyes of the world as two factions tussle for power in a dirty scrum to run the affairs of what was once a sport administered by gentleman of the highest calibre.
One faction wants to thrive on the support of so-called Provincial Unions to be elected while the other wants to restore supremacy of the voting rights of the eight top clubs in the fray like in the past and rugby is now being played out in court which stopped an election of office-bearers early this week.
It is not only the lay followers who are left in total confusion at what is happening to the administration of rugby, but the Media too has been totally baffled by the whole damn mess.
One faction backed by the Provincial Unions claim they are right and that Their People must be elected while the other faction supposedly backed by the clubs and the international body say they too are right to govern the affairs of rugby and an election of office-bearers that was set for January 21 was called off when the latter Faction obtained a court order.
While all this was happening Asia Rugby and World Rugby had been watching the antics played by men of a beggar nation like Sri Lanka that has asked for more borrowed time from World Rugby that has demanded a new Constitution to fall in line with the rest of the world fraternity or else face a ban.
Not only on the world stage, but in Sri Lanka too the sport of rugby is being frowned upon and become a laughing stock gone totally out of hand while unscrupulous elements on both sides go for each others’ blood and bones off the field.
Those who run the cradle of the country’s rugby, in this case schools rugby, are also waiting to cash in at the forthcoming season that will become another ground for schoolboy pawns at the mercy of sadistic old boys and their highly paid coaches while the corporate entities or so-called sponsors are licking their fingers waiting for April to dawn to announce their packages while pontificating themselves as Promoters but in reality using the occasion for business mileage.
The assault on a referee at a schools match last year and the brutalizing of players even at practices at leading schools in past seasons have also been swept under the carpet and forgotten while the grown up adults have become cry babies squabbling among themselves both at school and national level in a way that rugby is everything to them and their world ends if they cannot cling onto it like parasites.
The Sunday Observer has also being told that officials of rugby playing clubs and their players have also submitted a petition to the powers that be in the government to stop messing around with rugby and take firm decisions to ensure World Rugby does not go ahead with its legitimate threat to ban both the governing body called Sri Lanka Rugby and the team come the January 31 deadline for change and an end to the dirty scrum.
Another appalling issue swept under the carpet is Sri Lanka Rugby in 2014 violating Immigration laws and providing three Fijian players with Sri Lanka passports so they could be part of the island’s team that ensured they also played in an Asian championship that only infuriated World Rugby that slapped a massive fine that the country could not pay and was deducted from international funding.
All this while administrators over the past 12 years until now have practiced a thing called Political Correctness as the true, impeccable, saintly, honest, dignified and perfect humans ever to set foot on earth.
Most of them or nearly everyone has been nothing but cowards unable to face journalists in the open.
