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EP Kings included in eight-team Currie Cup
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_stormer2010" data-source="post: 622951" data-attributes="member: 39190"><p>I personally am willing to suffer 1/4 of the games being miss-matches for a few years for the potential I see this creating for SA rugby.</p><p></p><p>Like Heinikin said above, if all Bok players are rested that already takes away a chunk of the benefit the bigger teams hold over the smaller ones. So the top 4 teams (no Bokke in the Lions or Kings) are weaker in CC than SR.</p><p>On the other side of the coin, 8 teams means a greater sense of stability and would encourage players to stay with the lower teams of the top 8 (simply because the bottom 6 are far below these top 8 IMO) and would make the backers of the lower end of the top 8 more scope for devcelopment; more income and a bigger draw card to lure better players. So, hopefully, the smaller teams can draw just better players and manage to keep some loyal.</p><p></p><p>That is of course a hope only and we'll have to wait and see but I think it is a model that can be more stable longer term and allows SA rugby more options.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_stormer2010, post: 622951, member: 39190"] I personally am willing to suffer 1/4 of the games being miss-matches for a few years for the potential I see this creating for SA rugby. Like Heinikin said above, if all Bok players are rested that already takes away a chunk of the benefit the bigger teams hold over the smaller ones. So the top 4 teams (no Bokke in the Lions or Kings) are weaker in CC than SR. On the other side of the coin, 8 teams means a greater sense of stability and would encourage players to stay with the lower teams of the top 8 (simply because the bottom 6 are far below these top 8 IMO) and would make the backers of the lower end of the top 8 more scope for devcelopment; more income and a bigger draw card to lure better players. So, hopefully, the smaller teams can draw just better players and manage to keep some loyal. That is of course a hope only and we'll have to wait and see but I think it is a model that can be more stable longer term and allows SA rugby more options. [/QUOTE]
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