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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 127141"><p>Don, the only reason why the Argentines have a semi-professional league or have farmed out their players abroad isn't out of any administrative masterstroke, its purely out of the incompetence of the amateurish Union! </p><p></p><p>If Scotland dumped both pro teams and focused on its (frankly awful) internal leagues then that would sound the death knell for Scottish rugby as a major force in Europe. It would just go back to being the reserve of public (private) schools of the lowlands and North East of Scotland and of the Borders and people in the rest of Scotland (i.e. anyone outside of Edinburgh, Borders and Aberdeen) will just stop and think "hang on, whats the point in sending my kids to learn their trade in Rugby if we can't really compete with anyone anymore".</p><p></p><p>Don, the last thing Scotland needs to enter a period of enforced isolation, because of the fact that it'd probably never come out of it again. It'd be like never waking from an enforced coma.</p><p></p><p>What the SRU needs to do is cut their losses and franchise both teams out and give them an agreed level of funding without any administrative tricks or hiding behind clauses or whatever. Scotland needs David Moffett basically, they need someone from the outside to blitz the debt, balance the books and make some painful decisions which a Scot could never do. If not, they'll die a slow and painful death, simple as that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 127141"] Don, the only reason why the Argentines have a semi-professional league or have farmed out their players abroad isn't out of any administrative masterstroke, its purely out of the incompetence of the amateurish Union! If Scotland dumped both pro teams and focused on its (frankly awful) internal leagues then that would sound the death knell for Scottish rugby as a major force in Europe. It would just go back to being the reserve of public (private) schools of the lowlands and North East of Scotland and of the Borders and people in the rest of Scotland (i.e. anyone outside of Edinburgh, Borders and Aberdeen) will just stop and think "hang on, whats the point in sending my kids to learn their trade in Rugby if we can't really compete with anyone anymore". Don, the last thing Scotland needs to enter a period of enforced isolation, because of the fact that it'd probably never come out of it again. It'd be like never waking from an enforced coma. What the SRU needs to do is cut their losses and franchise both teams out and give them an agreed level of funding without any administrative tricks or hiding behind clauses or whatever. Scotland needs David Moffett basically, they need someone from the outside to blitz the debt, balance the books and make some painful decisions which a Scot could never do. If not, they'll die a slow and painful death, simple as that. [/QUOTE]
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