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<blockquote data-quote="rusty_lock" data-source="post: 410775" data-attributes="member: 43030"><p>Interesting thread. Canada is miles away from any kind of real professional rugby. I'm not sure who posted it but someone said that the CRC is a semi-professional league, I wish it was. I'm not really sure where you are getting that information. I know several players on a couple different teams personally and none are paid directly for playing in the CRC. The objective is to be seen by national selectors and go from there. Rugby Canada has a program through Sport Canada that funds elite level players, all of whom play in the CRC. This is the same program that funds our olympic athletes. This program funds 22 players to the tune of $1500 per month. This allows them to train full time and gives them access to <a href="http://www.piseworld.com/" target="_blank">PISE </a>(Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence). The vast majority of players in the CRC play for nothing except the experience and the opportunity to be seen by national selectors.</p><p></p><p>Internationally based players, those players under contract to professional clubs in the UK or France, (i.e. Cudmore, Van der Merwe, Tkachuk, Carpenter et al.) do not come home to play in the CRC. The only overseas players coming home to the CRC are those players that are playing for the North Wales developmental team "RGC 1404" now known as WRU North Wales Senior Academy XV. Aproximately 9 Canadians are on that that squad as part of joint venture by the CRU and the WRU to help develop rugby in North Wales and give aspiring Canadian players an opportunity to play at a higher level than they would get with their local clubs in BC, Ontario or New Foundland. This program is very controversial in Canada. Many people feel that shipping our best and brightest young players away to North Wales for half a year each year is counter productive to expanding the game locally. My personal opinion is it is good short term strategy but will never produce the results that Canada needs to sustain or improve our position internationally.</p><p></p><p>Could the CRC morph into a true semi-professional league? I hope so as that is our only hope of keeping up with the countries that are fully professional like Italy, Japan and Scotland. The framework is there, now all we need is the finances to get it up and running and some visionary leadership to bring the various stakeholders together to make it happen. My fear is that the visionary leadership is the part that will ultimately be missing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rusty_lock, post: 410775, member: 43030"] Interesting thread. Canada is miles away from any kind of real professional rugby. I'm not sure who posted it but someone said that the CRC is a semi-professional league, I wish it was. I'm not really sure where you are getting that information. I know several players on a couple different teams personally and none are paid directly for playing in the CRC. The objective is to be seen by national selectors and go from there. Rugby Canada has a program through Sport Canada that funds elite level players, all of whom play in the CRC. This is the same program that funds our olympic athletes. This program funds 22 players to the tune of $1500 per month. This allows them to train full time and gives them access to [URL="http://www.piseworld.com/"]PISE [/URL](Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence). The vast majority of players in the CRC play for nothing except the experience and the opportunity to be seen by national selectors. Internationally based players, those players under contract to professional clubs in the UK or France, (i.e. Cudmore, Van der Merwe, Tkachuk, Carpenter et al.) do not come home to play in the CRC. The only overseas players coming home to the CRC are those players that are playing for the North Wales developmental team "RGC 1404" now known as WRU North Wales Senior Academy XV. Aproximately 9 Canadians are on that that squad as part of joint venture by the CRU and the WRU to help develop rugby in North Wales and give aspiring Canadian players an opportunity to play at a higher level than they would get with their local clubs in BC, Ontario or New Foundland. This program is very controversial in Canada. Many people feel that shipping our best and brightest young players away to North Wales for half a year each year is counter productive to expanding the game locally. My personal opinion is it is good short term strategy but will never produce the results that Canada needs to sustain or improve our position internationally. Could the CRC morph into a true semi-professional league? I hope so as that is our only hope of keeping up with the countries that are fully professional like Italy, Japan and Scotland. The framework is there, now all we need is the finances to get it up and running and some visionary leadership to bring the various stakeholders together to make it happen. My fear is that the visionary leadership is the part that will ultimately be missing. [/QUOTE]
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