The absurd decision from the Rugby Football Union to remove "Saxons" from a team name for woke diversity reasons

​I see that the Rugby Football Union has dropped the name “Saxons” from one of its senior England representative teams having decided given its drive to “to reflect diversity in society.”

From now on the team will be known as England A- they are nothing but creative in the RFU marketing department!!!

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​Must say I am puzzled by this decision.
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Perhaps I have missed it but as far as I can see nobody of any colour has complained about the word Saxon and they would be right not to.

​It comes from southern Germany as they had the temerity to invade and effectively conquer us in the 5th century. Alfred the Great was one of their more successful  old boys.

He prevented England from falling to the Danes (God knows what ruby would have made of the expression I’d love a Danish) and promoted learning and literacy.

Martin “chariots” Offiah , a great ruby union and rugby league star for two decades, is quoted in The Times as saying; “Adding names like Saxon was a bit misguided.”

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I don’t agree with either the RFU or Mr Offiah. I can understand the argument against slave owner names I cannot understand the argument where a historical name with no connection to the oppression of minorities is ditched.

Perhaps somebody would from the RFU would like to make the case. The questions they should answer are the following.
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1. Has anybody complained?
2. In what way is the word Saxon viewed as a threat to minorities?  
3. Who in the RFU believes that the word has put off people of colour playing rugby.

There will be lots of more questions. A piece of madness.

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