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<blockquote data-quote="DC" data-source="post: 110517"><p><strong>What you are suggestion is regionalism through the back door. You are suggesting imposing a system where some clubs will be shoved into a top, trans national league while others are asked ti languish in obscurity. Fans will be given a stark choice (especially those in the South West) : find another team to support or fart around for a few years in Division 2 or 1. </strong></p><p></p><p>Come to England, talk to any Rugby fan and suggest that system and you'll be laughed out of the pub or house you're in.</p><p></p><p>I mean, sod the Super 14, they're artificial, they wear the same crappy team kits all made by the same kit maker and they're all the *****es of their respective Rugby Union. The only teams who have the balls to argue back are the South African ones. </p><p></p><p>What Europe needs is to just pool its leagues (the GP, ML and the Top 14) and just do away with ALL cups except ONE. Essentially just have a playoff system just like the NHL or the NFL for their Stanley Cup and their Superbowl. Simple, easy and keeps all the existing leagues intact. Perfect.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Ah then what hypocrites the fans of those particular clubs would be would they not?</p><p></p><p>"Oh we love our club with all our hearts no matter what."</p><p></p><p>Just goes to show what hypocrites they would be if they decided to stop supporting their club because they were in a lower league. And languish you say? I don't see how that would happen considering they'd still make good draws to their games, also say you live in Newcastle for example, all of Newcastles games would be broadcast on your particular station. Similar to what they do with the NFL, MLB, NBA here. Instead of showing a particular match per week, you would get your cities clubs match and the national matches of the week. So say that Saracens played Leicester, the people in London and the Leicester area would receive the Sarries vs Leicester match and a few more throughout the day of say for example Newcastle vs LLanelli and Leinster vs Munster or something. But the bottom line is if you live in a city you get your clubs match as a priority.</p><p></p><p>So you get your cities club match, plus the national broadcast ones. Then this open doors for bigger TV deals to take place like TV Packages like Guinness Premiership Full Pitch where you get ''X'' amount of games for ''X'' amount of money. Similar to our NBA Full Court or NFL Sunday Ticket packages.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="DC, post: 110517"] [b]What you are suggestion is regionalism through the back door. You are suggesting imposing a system where some clubs will be shoved into a top, trans national league while others are asked ti languish in obscurity. Fans will be given a stark choice (especially those in the South West) : find another team to support or fart around for a few years in Division 2 or 1. [/b] Come to England, talk to any Rugby fan and suggest that system and you'll be laughed out of the pub or house you're in. I mean, sod the Super 14, they're artificial, they wear the same crappy team kits all made by the same kit maker and they're all the *****es of their respective Rugby Union. The only teams who have the balls to argue back are the South African ones. What Europe needs is to just pool its leagues (the GP, ML and the Top 14) and just do away with ALL cups except ONE. Essentially just have a playoff system just like the NHL or the NFL for their Stanley Cup and their Superbowl. Simple, easy and keeps all the existing leagues intact. Perfect. [/b][/quote] Ah then what hypocrites the fans of those particular clubs would be would they not? "Oh we love our club with all our hearts no matter what." Just goes to show what hypocrites they would be if they decided to stop supporting their club because they were in a lower league. And languish you say? I don't see how that would happen considering they'd still make good draws to their games, also say you live in Newcastle for example, all of Newcastles games would be broadcast on your particular station. Similar to what they do with the NFL, MLB, NBA here. Instead of showing a particular match per week, you would get your cities clubs match and the national matches of the week. So say that Saracens played Leicester, the people in London and the Leicester area would receive the Sarries vs Leicester match and a few more throughout the day of say for example Newcastle vs LLanelli and Leinster vs Munster or something. But the bottom line is if you live in a city you get your clubs match as a priority. So you get your cities club match, plus the national broadcast ones. Then this open doors for bigger TV deals to take place like TV Packages like Guinness Premiership Full Pitch where you get ''X'' amount of games for ''X'' amount of money. Similar to our NBA Full Court or NFL Sunday Ticket packages. [/QUOTE]
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