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Andy Goode's nemesis Dave Ward may have made a terrible career choice

Dave Ward's post-Harlequins plans could be in doubt (Photo by Henry Browne/Getty Images)

Harlequins’ Dave Ward could be set for an unsettling few weeks as the financial crisis enveloping Championship club Carnegie has potentially thrown into doubt his planned summer move to the Yorkshire outfit.

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The Rugby Paper are reporting that the second tier strugglers are facing swingeing cutbacks after investor Jon Wright withdrew his promise of a £3.3million budget for next season for reasons that remain unclear.

Ward was one of eight senior players already contracted for next season. Despite having a deal at Harlequins that would have taken him through to summer 2020, the 33-year-old decided to knock that option on the head and instead take up an offer at Carnegie that would not only continue his playing career but also give him his first steps on the coaching ladder.

Faced with the threat of possible relegation from the Championship following a terrible start to this season, Carnegie managed to muster together enough finance to allow director of rugby Chris Sterling, whose own future is now uncertain, recruit mid-campaign.

That influx led to the strong revival that now sees them moving into sixth position following Sunday’s win over Doncaster. However, with the financial outlook again uncertain amid speculation that Carnegie’s budget might only be a third of the initially promised £3.3m, Ward’s planned arrival could become a casualty along with the club’s famed academy set-up.

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Seventeen of the club’s young recruits have played age-grade internationals for England or Scotland in the last four years, among them Dan Lancaster, son of Stuart, who represented the Scots. But that conveyor belt could be halted amid the feared budgetary cuts.

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Ward made headines earlier this season following a situation with Wasps’ Thomas Young which sparked a Twitter spat involving Goode, the former England international who is now a RugbyPass columnist.

Goode branded the Harlequins hooker a coward following the 12th minute incident he was yellow-carded for in front of a packed Twickenham.

“Pretty conclusive pictures here of Dave Ward spitting directly at Thomas Young whilst looking at him before his premeditated trample on his ankle. Absolute coward,” write Goode in a tweet where he also tagged Ward.

Former England skipper Chris Robshaw took exception to Goode’s targeting of Ward. “You’re entitled to your opinion, but to @ him the way you have because of your own personal agenda isn’t play on,” he tweeted in reply.

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I’d have loved to see Bledisloe Cup rugby on Anzac Day.

Yes, but by now you must realize you don’t hold common opinions, let alone can think for New Zealand rugby’s best interests.

The preparation of the All Blacks is timed to the minute and introducing a test match in the middle of the Super Rugby Pacific season has the potential to throw that carefully managed system into chaos.

I don’t think that should come into it, it’s a business decision when it comes down to it. First though, it hasn’t passed the “is it OK to do?” has it.

I get that surrendering the cup isn’t something the current crop of NZR staff and governors eye with any relish, but I’ll continue to argue that it would ultimately be good for our rugby.

That view would be an oxymoron in their (most peoples) eyes.

I’ll be interested to know what fans think of seeing the proposed Anzac Day clash scuppered. Like, genuinely interested.

I hadn’t been expecting anything, but that’s likely because if it was in the spotlight to expect something, I would have expected the status quo to come out on top like every other time.

But RA’s Bledisloe proposal gives us an opportunity to wonder about how sacred the timing of this competition is and whether we couldn’t reimagine how the season is configured.

Isn’t that being determined now in conjunctin with World Rugby/every other union?

Perhaps RA’s desire to start Anazc Bledisloes from 2026 was a bit premature. Maybe 2028 or 2030 would give everyone enough time to decide how the game can be accommodated.

It could be their is reason to change in that time frame, but why on Nations League years? More pointedly, shouldn’t it be every year?

the idea that the Bledisloe Cup could become Anazc Day’s marquee sports event

I could probably easily get out of the idea these sorts of days aren’t for sport/fun to take center stage. It’s a mentality I don’t think holds everywhere already. But I’m happy to follow what those that really do care about the day (never been a dawn service person) think.

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