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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 204014"><p>Oh dear god, so much speculation! Now I'm not trying to put a downer on here but who are SANZAR or the members of individually speaking to to propell this talk of massive expansion? I want names, I want organisations and I want businessmen with pockets deep enough to endure a year of morbid curiosity from the locals followed by fifteen years of being stuck in the wilderness whose only fans are local rugby nuts and ex-pats?</p><p></p><p>I'm looking at the list of 'likely' cities and only Buenos Aires and Tokyo jump out at me as the most obvious. The rest are just shots in the dark and I think Nigel Melville & Kevin Roberts (remember him?) at USA Rugby would have something to say about SANZAR suddenly charging into the United States of America. Something along the lines of "we'd like a BIG cut of the pie, please!"</p><p></p><p>If you <em>really</em> want to compete with Europe, some of the nations are going to have to bite the bullet and consider privatisation. Franchises are all well and good but privately owned clubs are even better. </p><p></p><p>None of this has been thought through and I get the nasty feeling that the chaps at Rugby World have just had one of our "if we were SANZAR, what would we do" kind of brainstorming meetings because they were short of an article...or three.</p><p></p><p>Like I said, I don't want to sound cynical but this sounds waaay too good to be true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 204014"] Oh dear god, so much speculation! Now I'm not trying to put a downer on here but who are SANZAR or the members of individually speaking to to propell this talk of massive expansion? I want names, I want organisations and I want businessmen with pockets deep enough to endure a year of morbid curiosity from the locals followed by fifteen years of being stuck in the wilderness whose only fans are local rugby nuts and ex-pats? I'm looking at the list of 'likely' cities and only Buenos Aires and Tokyo jump out at me as the most obvious. The rest are just shots in the dark and I think Nigel Melville & Kevin Roberts (remember him?) at USA Rugby would have something to say about SANZAR suddenly charging into the United States of America. Something along the lines of "we'd like a BIG cut of the pie, please!" If you [i]really[/i] want to compete with Europe, some of the nations are going to have to bite the bullet and consider privatisation. Franchises are all well and good but privately owned clubs are even better. None of this has been thought through and I get the nasty feeling that the chaps at Rugby World have just had one of our "if we were SANZAR, what would we do" kind of brainstorming meetings because they were short of an article...or three. Like I said, I don't want to sound cynical but this sounds waaay too good to be true. [/QUOTE]
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