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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 1034863" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>Yeah there's a lot of pots calling the super League kettle black for sure. Sky Sports are dead set against it when they started it all by rebranding the premier league and essentially making it a closed shop unless you have substantial funds to compete. BT have no sympathy from me considering they wanted to do the exact same with French and English rugby teams.</p><p></p><p>There's plenty of examples but I remember thinking a couple of years ago when Newcastle fans were delighted to be rumoured to be bought by a middle Eastern oligarch that the sport was truly ****** but the thought of the world's biggest sport being reduced to a tournament of 20 teams honestly baffles me. I think European rugby should be looking at something similar but I'd be thinking of a huge 40 something team European league or a two tiered system, the difference here bring that the Pro X clubs are already franchises, England's are heading that way quickly and rugby is in a position where they'll be the same and rugby needs to start compensating their players more if possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 1034863, member: 45598"] Yeah there's a lot of pots calling the super League kettle black for sure. Sky Sports are dead set against it when they started it all by rebranding the premier league and essentially making it a closed shop unless you have substantial funds to compete. BT have no sympathy from me considering they wanted to do the exact same with French and English rugby teams. There's plenty of examples but I remember thinking a couple of years ago when Newcastle fans were delighted to be rumoured to be bought by a middle Eastern oligarch that the sport was truly ****** but the thought of the world's biggest sport being reduced to a tournament of 20 teams honestly baffles me. I think European rugby should be looking at something similar but I'd be thinking of a huge 40 something team European league or a two tiered system, the difference here bring that the Pro X clubs are already franchises, England's are heading that way quickly and rugby is in a position where they'll be the same and rugby needs to start compensating their players more if possible. [/QUOTE]
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