List of controversial Aszar Rugby Cup matches: Difference between revisions

 

= "Scab Slaughter Saturday" (2008) =

The first two weeks of the ARC 2008 season had been cancelled due to ongoing strike action, largely over players' pensions. By the third week, a handful of the teams had drafted temporary players, generally from other sports or retirees, to cross the picket lines and provide a full fifteen players. Although most of the scheduled Week 3 games went ahead, they were boycotted by most fans and sports journalists generally preferred to cover the picket lines outside the stadium instead of the amateurish rugby going on inside it. The Faisluns 1st XV, the only team in the league at the time to have come entirely from corporate backing instead of Aszar rugby's traditional union roots, managed to field nearly their entire original team - all but three crossed the pickets. Vasri'ia United, however, showed up to their scheduled away game with a team made entirely of rookies.