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Premiership to expants to 14 teams and be ringfenced?
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<blockquote data-quote="goodNumber10" data-source="post: 711109" data-attributes="member: 71068"><p>I think we're going to have to disagree then mate.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As i said either through promotion of clubs (France) or the player path is still open (NZ/Australia/SA). </p><p></p><p>In Australia for example you play through the groups until you hit the Premier grade, premiergrade is then a feeder for the state run teams that compete in the NRC, if you play NRC by default you are eligible for, lets say, the Waratahs - if you're called up you go up, the club can't refuse you and you go back down based on the requirements of the state.</p><p></p><p>So even though the club path isn't open the player path is you can essentially work from the top to bottom and when you hit the top you are called in..</p><p></p><p>I don't believe this would be the case if we ring fenced the clubs in the UK because they are not embedded in the RFU in the same way the tiered structure in the SANZAR is where it is geared directly to prgressing people to play for the national team - not to fulfill the destiny of the money overlord. </p><p></p><p>The pro 12 and specifically Wales is a great example of how i think it would impact badly on the clubs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodNumber10, post: 711109, member: 71068"] I think we're going to have to disagree then mate. As i said either through promotion of clubs (France) or the player path is still open (NZ/Australia/SA). In Australia for example you play through the groups until you hit the Premier grade, premiergrade is then a feeder for the state run teams that compete in the NRC, if you play NRC by default you are eligible for, lets say, the Waratahs - if you're called up you go up, the club can't refuse you and you go back down based on the requirements of the state. So even though the club path isn't open the player path is you can essentially work from the top to bottom and when you hit the top you are called in.. I don't believe this would be the case if we ring fenced the clubs in the UK because they are not embedded in the RFU in the same way the tiered structure in the SANZAR is where it is geared directly to prgressing people to play for the national team - not to fulfill the destiny of the money overlord. The pro 12 and specifically Wales is a great example of how i think it would impact badly on the clubs [/QUOTE]
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