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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 547435" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>Everything feic said and the Irish Player Welfare programme needs to be stopped as it is totally uneffective. If Ireland were winning 85-90% of their games it would be fine but the truth is that our national team is slightly above par at best. If Irish teams did play their top sides every week it would encourage other sides to do the same and lucrative T.V deals will be struck (I realise their is a lot of anti-sky but I'm talking solely for growth of league purposes). This will leas to teams having more money salary caps would be raised and you could see big names from abroad being attracted to the league.</p><p></p><p>The league also needs to be worth something to the teams and not as back up to the HEC and if only 8 teams were certain of a HEC position (8Eng, 8, P12, 7Fra + Amlin winner) there would be much more to play for. The unions are literally sitting on a gold mine and don't realise it.</p><p></p><p>As for a reserve league, maybe an LV cup style competition would work better (3 groups of 4 split into 2 groups of 6 after matches games played midweek) it would also get midweek television for BBC, RTE, S4c etc... </p><p></p><p>With more money the exodus of players would stop (hopefully it doesn't start for Ireland) and the league could become the top league in Europe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 547435, member: 45598"] Everything feic said and the Irish Player Welfare programme needs to be stopped as it is totally uneffective. If Ireland were winning 85-90% of their games it would be fine but the truth is that our national team is slightly above par at best. If Irish teams did play their top sides every week it would encourage other sides to do the same and lucrative T.V deals will be struck (I realise their is a lot of anti-sky but I'm talking solely for growth of league purposes). This will leas to teams having more money salary caps would be raised and you could see big names from abroad being attracted to the league. The league also needs to be worth something to the teams and not as back up to the HEC and if only 8 teams were certain of a HEC position (8Eng, 8, P12, 7Fra + Amlin winner) there would be much more to play for. The unions are literally sitting on a gold mine and don't realise it. As for a reserve league, maybe an LV cup style competition would work better (3 groups of 4 split into 2 groups of 6 after matches games played midweek) it would also get midweek television for BBC, RTE, S4c etc... With more money the exodus of players would stop (hopefully it doesn't start for Ireland) and the league could become the top league in Europe. [/QUOTE]
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