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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 234070"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Logorrhea @ Dec 15 2008, 12:29 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=367264" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>we have lots ofplayers available. even the most xenophobic englishman cannot blame our failures on foreigners. Look at the football team - all of a sudden it's doing well. Have we cut the number of foreigners in English football? no.</p><p></p><p>IMO the league is fine as it is. Maybe if they made the frankly pointless Anglo Welsh Cup get played during the international weekends then it might save the Premiership from low attendances for 8 rounds of the season.</p><p></p><p>As it is, if Bristol and Newcastle cannot afford to stay in the top flight then they will get relegated and someone else can join their place. My club Richmond went bankrupt, as did London Scottish; 10 years ago when we were both doing well in the Premiership. We both got dropped down to the lowest level of the league hierarchy, and have since both got promoted so we're in National 3 South. And we're quite happy playing rugby at a decent, amateur level. For big games we get maybe 1500 people in the stands.</p><p></p><p>Conclusion: we like the league system; professional clubs can always survive as amateur ones if the money dries up. There's no need for a franchise system; it's not in keeping with the way rugby's structured in this country and would do more harm than good, since the people who go to games on a wet windy afternoon during internationals are the hardcore fans of a club who'll stay through thick and thin anyway. They are the core of rugby and won't easily adapt to the changes in a franchise system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 234070"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Logorrhea @ Dec 15 2008, 12:29 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=367264']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> we have lots ofplayers available. even the most xenophobic englishman cannot blame our failures on foreigners. Look at the football team - all of a sudden it's doing well. Have we cut the number of foreigners in English football? no. IMO the league is fine as it is. Maybe if they made the frankly pointless Anglo Welsh Cup get played during the international weekends then it might save the Premiership from low attendances for 8 rounds of the season. As it is, if Bristol and Newcastle cannot afford to stay in the top flight then they will get relegated and someone else can join their place. My club Richmond went bankrupt, as did London Scottish; 10 years ago when we were both doing well in the Premiership. We both got dropped down to the lowest level of the league hierarchy, and have since both got promoted so we're in National 3 South. And we're quite happy playing rugby at a decent, amateur level. For big games we get maybe 1500 people in the stands. Conclusion: we like the league system; professional clubs can always survive as amateur ones if the money dries up. There's no need for a franchise system; it's not in keeping with the way rugby's structured in this country and would do more harm than good, since the people who go to games on a wet windy afternoon during internationals are the hardcore fans of a club who'll stay through thick and thin anyway. They are the core of rugby and won't easily adapt to the changes in a franchise system. [/QUOTE]
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