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Has rugby union over-reached itself?
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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugby_Guy" data-source="post: 117746"><p>The way I understand it, the beginning of the professional era of rugby brought a very sudden influx of cash into the game which people went crazy spending. As such, you had clubs with three or four teams ( I believe, I'm going on stories I've heard here) where the players were basically paid full-time. People then started to realize that this was getting expensive and the whole thing crashed. So in the beginning we had the problem of too much money, but now we have too many games. I'm absolutely certain that the future of the sport is going to lie in making high-profile professional competitions like the Heineken Cup flourish while discarding useless tournaments like the EDF energy Cup and also reducing the number of international tests played as well as reducing the length of the season in many cases.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugby_Guy, post: 117746"] The way I understand it, the beginning of the professional era of rugby brought a very sudden influx of cash into the game which people went crazy spending. As such, you had clubs with three or four teams ( I believe, I'm going on stories I've heard here) where the players were basically paid full-time. People then started to realize that this was getting expensive and the whole thing crashed. So in the beginning we had the problem of too much money, but now we have too many games. I'm absolutely certain that the future of the sport is going to lie in making high-profile professional competitions like the Heineken Cup flourish while discarding useless tournaments like the EDF energy Cup and also reducing the number of international tests played as well as reducing the length of the season in many cases. [/QUOTE]
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