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<blockquote data-quote="BPM" data-source="post: 1097732" data-attributes="member: 59968"><p>Interesting post, but I'm not sure I agree with a fair chunk of it.</p><p></p><p>I agree that losing regular competition with the South African club sides is detrimental to NZ and Australia but I think you'd be in a minority in welcoming them to the URC/European competitions.</p><p></p><p>I accept that they've raised the standard of the URC, but that wasn't overly hard when you consider how poor the Welsh teams have been for a long time now and Benetton and Zebre are perennial also rans. I really <strong>don't</strong> like bringing them into European competitions, especially when you consider the likely next step is SA in the 6 Nations which I would flipping hate.</p><p></p><p>All of the above is opinion, but as a point of fact, the money in England is not 'huge' by any means. Quite the opposite. Premiership clubs are not propped up by the unions as they are for Irish, Welsh and Scottish teams and as most clubs are loss making, they aren't in a position to offer big money at all. Yes, there are marquee players but these are 2 per club. To suggest it's even close to being similar to the money in France is straight up incorrect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BPM, post: 1097732, member: 59968"] Interesting post, but I’m not sure I agree with a fair chunk of it. I agree that losing regular competition with the South African club sides is detrimental to NZ and Australia but I think you’d be in a minority in welcoming them to the URC/European competitions. I accept that they’ve raised the standard of the URC, but that wasn’t overly hard when you consider how poor the Welsh teams have been for a long time now and Benetton and Zebre are perennial also rans. I really [B]don’t[/B] like bringing them into European competitions, especially when you consider the likely next step is SA in the 6 Nations which I would flipping hate. All of the above is opinion, but as a point of fact, the money in England is not ‘huge’ by any means. Quite the opposite. Premiership clubs are not propped up by the unions as they are for Irish, Welsh and Scottish teams and as most clubs are loss making, they aren’t in a position to offer big money at all. Yes, there are marquee players but these are 2 per club. To suggest it’s even close to being similar to the money in France is straight up incorrect. [/QUOTE]
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