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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 1162284" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>I would have much preferred a European championship every two years (and something comparable in the SH) but with the World League being approved that is effectively a dead option. </p><p></p><p>The way ahead would appear to be for a commercially attractive Tier2 like Japan, Spain, Germany, Brazil, US or Canada to do well in the World League, attract crowds (if allowed to play a home game!) and TV revenue. This would get some Tier1 unions comparing the limited commercial value of a Wales or Scotland (neither of whom have meanginful TV rights) against that new opportunity (e.g. "remind me why are we protecting these guys again?"). That is step 1.</p><p></p><p>Step 2 would then be getting so many Tier2s to be as potentially profitable for Tier1 that the boundaries cease to exist and the door is flung open for nations like Georgia, Uruguay or Portugal, regardless of their commercial value (as it is in football).</p><p></p><p>I could live 40 more years and would be unlikely to see it. But even this difficult path did not exist until yesterday.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 1162284, member: 74121"] I would have much preferred a European championship every two years (and something comparable in the SH) but with the World League being approved that is effectively a dead option. The way ahead would appear to be for a commercially attractive Tier2 like Japan, Spain, Germany, Brazil, US or Canada to do well in the World League, attract crowds (if allowed to play a home game!) and TV revenue. This would get some Tier1 unions comparing the limited commercial value of a Wales or Scotland (neither of whom have meanginful TV rights) against that new opportunity (e.g. "remind me why are we protecting these guys again?"). That is step 1. Step 2 would then be getting so many Tier2s to be as potentially profitable for Tier1 that the boundaries cease to exist and the door is flung open for nations like Georgia, Uruguay or Portugal, regardless of their commercial value (as it is in football). I could live 40 more years and would be unlikely to see it. But even this difficult path did not exist until yesterday. [/QUOTE]
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