A little quiet talk yeah I am sure that will really do the trick. Don't worry boys not only are you underpaid and playing for a team that is massively under invested in and that your employer doesn't have a Chairman or a CEO and will probably not have a Diretor of Rugby or national coach shortly but hey us amateurs know what we are doing - we just don't want to tell anyone our grand plan yet. Also the band which is due to play Abide with me as the ship sinks hasn't turned up yet.

It is tribute to the loyalty of the players of Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Borders that they haven't defected after the treatment they have received over the last two years.

Now as fans I don't think we could criticise any player who decides to make a living for themselves somewhere else a bit more secure and where the asylum is actually not run by the inmates.

To the players if you are going to strike then make sure it is a Scotland international rather than during the Celtic league, as I think the committee would see a Pro team striking as the perfect excuse to close it down while a strike at a 6 nations game would give the SRU exactly what they deserve a major financially headache

Agree with you disillusioned.

Although I don't think there will be any strike action with Internationals either. Wouldn't there be legal action on striking during the six nations? Wouldn't that have more cash disappearing from an already empty SRU cash pot to stump up for possible legalities and legal challenges by sponsors and bodies of the other five nations?

Kenny Logan came out in midweek surrounding all this the "strike scenario".

No disrespect to Kenny and certainly no disrespect to players such as Gordon Bulloch and Jon Petrie but why haven't the latter two stepped up to the plate and spoken as Kenny did?

Kenny has nothing to lose. He's made his money from the game down South, he's retired from the International setup.

Wouldn't it have had a bigger impact if the like's of Bulloch or Petrie had come out and said something along the same lines as Kenny?

I think it just re-inforeces the fact there may not be any strike action.

I think Kenny stepped up because he is a paper's favourite. A famous wife etc. Plus he is one of the players almost at the end of his career so if any action was taken against him then it wouldn't hurt so much? I believe.

Although I think your right. Can't see stike action so much just now.

I agree with you both that there will not be any strike action. And I agree that if some of the current senior Scottish players actually stood up and made the stand that Kenny did there would be a lot of flapping about in the blazer world of the SRU.

My point about the internationals rather than the Celtic league games is purely down to this; that the guys who play for the Prof teams are underpaid and the fans who pay money on a weekly basis into the SRU coffers have been treated incredibly unfairly adn being frank no one on the SRU committee really cares a jot about it so really the only effective threat would be to threaten the financial lifeline of the SRu ie the internationals.

AS for Kenny's motives, I have met the guy in his various guises over the years and the one thing that is underestimated about Kenny is his passion and commitment to Scotland and Scottish rugby. At the world cup he was the only Scottish player to show genuine positive emotion about winning the game against Fiji and anyone at Glasgow who has the misfortune to talk to Kenny after Glasgow have lost will know the guy actually cares about the team.
If more Scottish players had the same mentality and attitude then Glasgow would be genuine contenders for the Celtic league.

Get real! Let the players go on strike... breach of contact. Sack them, then recruit players on half the wages and there would be plenty of volunteers.