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<blockquote data-quote="Feicarsinn" data-source="post: 507424" data-attributes="member: 22777"><p>There's been a Premier rugby team in Newcastle since 1998. That's 14 seasons. In my opinion that's long enough for a club to be able to stand on it's own two feet. If they go down now, I don't see why they should deserve any special help from the RFU due to geography.</p><p></p><p>Your argument is that rugby needs to be developed in certain areas. Taking that argument to it's natural extreme, the club system in England should be abolished in favour of regional teams. So the like of Leicester and Northampton would be combined, as would Bath and Bristol, and the London teams. Then you'd have a championship of about 8 or 10 regional teams with players centrally contracted to the RFU and the destruction of the club game would follow. If you really want to develop rugby in the North, that's the way to do it.</p><p></p><p>Personally I'd just let the game develop naturally. Newcastle don't deserve to stay up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feicarsinn, post: 507424, member: 22777"] There's been a Premier rugby team in Newcastle since 1998. That's 14 seasons. In my opinion that's long enough for a club to be able to stand on it's own two feet. If they go down now, I don't see why they should deserve any special help from the RFU due to geography. Your argument is that rugby needs to be developed in certain areas. Taking that argument to it's natural extreme, the club system in England should be abolished in favour of regional teams. So the like of Leicester and Northampton would be combined, as would Bath and Bristol, and the London teams. Then you'd have a championship of about 8 or 10 regional teams with players centrally contracted to the RFU and the destruction of the club game would follow. If you really want to develop rugby in the North, that's the way to do it. Personally I'd just let the game develop naturally. Newcastle don't deserve to stay up. [/QUOTE]
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