It is an expensive business preparing budgets for a First Division club – it is like running a company – and you can’t automatically pluck money out of thin air to pay people.Do you think the 120-day rule should be:a) reduced; b) increased; c) retained; d) abolished?If you just abolish it it will start a flood away of players, but I am not sure that it [the rule] will last too long. At the moment there are no rules no regulations and no guidance. I think in the real world it [going professional] will happen more quickly than that.Wait until next season.Immediately. It has gone professional all over the world then you can’t stop it in one country.Immediately.It’s too late it has already gone professional.It should wait until next season, on the basis that nobody had budgeted for it and could not be expected to find the resources to pay players. It is very important that change is properly managed and controlled. I don’t think that clubs have had sufficient time to respond to a totally unexpected decision made by the international board.

Therefore, by allowing unrestrained professionalism straight away, there is distinct advantage to those clubs with multi-millionaires behind them Other clubs need more time to reorganise their finances. These men are life’s second XV, who don’t understand the game, and are trying to make decisions that no-one will have any respect for.It would be better to wait until next season but I don’t think that is possible. It [the moratorium] is a good thing but they have got a commission of laymen together, who are doing it in their spare time, and they won’t have covered anywhere near all the problems There are a hell of a lot of problems to cover. I think the mood is such that it is all gaining momentum and now is the right time.It should come in concurrently with the internationals being paid.It should go professional immediately, because you can’t put a stop to things that are already happeningIt already has, hasn’t it? Certainly as far as Newcastle are concerned it seems to have gone professional already. BATH

John Quin, Secretary
BRISTOLDave Tyler,Club directorGLOUCESTERMike Coley, Club directorHARLEQUINSDick Best,Director of rugbyLEICESTERTony Russ,Director of rugbyORRELLSALEPaul Turner,CoachSARACENSMark Evans,CoachWASPSJeff Probyn,Chairman of rugbyWESTHARTLEPOOLSteve Smith,Press officerShould club rugby go professional immediately or wait until the next season?Immediately. Thirty-three of the 39 teams to go 3-1 up in a World Series went on to win it.

Among those failing to do so were the 1958 Milwaukee Braves.Maddux said: “For me the main thing will be to control my emotions – it’s going to be an exciting night.”. I thought he was really outstanding,” said Cox.The Braves are appearing in their third of the last four World Series played, but are without a championship since 1957, when the franchise was in Milwaukee. On the mound for the Braves, starter and winning pitcher Steve Avery went six innings yielding just three hits and a run, with three strikeouts and five walks.”It was an exciting night for me: my first World Series win, and we’re ahead 3-1 now,” said Avery, who came in just 0-1 after five World Series starts.”Avery left the game on a three-hitter. “I like three- and-one, I like Maddux, and I like the way our guys swung the bat tonight.”"I’ve faced more pleasing prospects,” said his Cleveland counterpart, Mike Hargrove, about facing Maddux, “but there are 26 other clubs sitting home wishing they had a chance to do what we’re going to have a chance to do tomorrow.”The Braves had 11 hits to Cleveland’s six, with David Justice’s two-run single in the seventh the key blow. No side effects were reported and, being entirely natural in origin, Cartequine will not produce any unfortunate results in post- race drug tests..