Are you an idiot? Are you someone with no taste? Do you have no feel for real rugby but love gimmicks and plastic/fake things?
If so, you may be the kind of moron that finds kits like this (new from Edinburgh Rugby) amusing:
Oh, how Stade. How witty and amusing. How charming.
Well done Edinburgh, I'm sure this will help Scottish rugby be taken even more seriously by both the rugby public and the public you need to win over to survive.
The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) and the New Zealand government are taking dramatic steps to ensure their holding of the 2011 Rugby World Cup is deemed a success and avoids becoming a financial disaster.
The revealed 'action plan' has been put together in light of the gloomy economic predictions regarding the potential losses of Rugby New Zealand 2011 Limited (RNZ 2011).
RNZ 2011 boss Martin Snedden is budgeting for a loss of around NZ$40million from the sport's showpiece and the figures are a major embarrassment to both the IRB and NZRU in light of the fact previous tournaments have grossed massive amounts of money for event organisers.
The most shocking part of the 'action plan' from the NZRU is that players on this Autumn's European tour are being asked to beg and busk during their spare time to help raise extra funds. Coach Graham Henry has confirmed that he has related to his players that they will be expected to put in a lot of hours 'off the paddock' in helping their country to achieve some level of financial stability.
For the full story click here.
Many people have complained that the Ospreys, in light of their resources, have had very little success since their creation a few years ago in the great carve up/butchery of Welsh domestic rugby.
We disagree. They have in recent seasons been amongst the market leaders in producing godawful rugby jerseys.
Their partnership with Kooga has been so innovative they even added lots of gold to their jerseys this year to complement the tacky 'fake tan and gold jewellery' style of many of their star players (Lee Byrne we are looking at you in particular).
However, they've really raised the bar with their press release for their latest abortion of a kit.
We'll let Bill Newton of Kooga say it in his own poetic way:
“This new shirt is particularly striking, and is a radically different shirt to anything we have supplied them with before. The strong sublimated pattern of swirling greens is a strong representation of the region, and being very much on trend right now I would expect that this shirt will prove to another hit with supporters.”
If I lived anywhere that could accurately be represented by 'a strong sublimated pattern of swirling greens' I'd either move or claw my eyes out with a chopstick. People of 'Ospreylia' take a stand before Kooga scar you forever.
We don't have an image to download yet, so to see the amazing press release and fantastic kit design click here.
What makes it all even more laughable/tragic is the Ospreys website is full of banners saying "REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE''. Well, wouldn't it help people from the region to remember who they are if they could stop having the team play in different outfits (and they are outfits, rather than kits) every other game?
We'll leave you with some previous sins against style:
