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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 963851" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>It might well have been by now, I'm just going by what I read in a thread in another forum. They may well have been paid, but nobody in theat thread has mentioned it. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As you say Hartpury didn't do anything against the competition regulations, but my problem lies with those regulations. Previously in The Championship, DRs allowed clubs to strengthen their squads and to maintain a big enough squad for the competition within budget while getting game time for promissing younger players. The RFU's changes courtesy of Nigel Melville's go far to far and enable clubs with the right connections to field an ever changing Barbarians side without the hastle of building a squad of their own players. This is against the spirit of league and indeed club rugby. All of the hard work done at Richmond to climb back up through the leagues from the very bottom, living within their means and building incrementally has been trumped overnight by one rule change that means a team whose biggest asset appears to be their list of contacts. IIRC, it used to be capped at 4 players in a match day squad. That number is about right to me.</p><p></p><p>I don't think that there's a comparison to the other sides you've mentioned. Pirates don't take that many players (tops of 6 I'd have thought) and they tend of be season long. It's a far cry from the rotating door policy at Hartpury.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 963851, member: 58362"] It might well have been by now, I'm just going by what I read in a thread in another forum. They may well have been paid, but nobody in theat thread has mentioned it. As you say Hartpury didn't do anything against the competition regulations, but my problem lies with those regulations. Previously in The Championship, DRs allowed clubs to strengthen their squads and to maintain a big enough squad for the competition within budget while getting game time for promissing younger players. The RFU's changes courtesy of Nigel Melville's go far to far and enable clubs with the right connections to field an ever changing Barbarians side without the hastle of building a squad of their own players. This is against the spirit of league and indeed club rugby. All of the hard work done at Richmond to climb back up through the leagues from the very bottom, living within their means and building incrementally has been trumped overnight by one rule change that means a team whose biggest asset appears to be their list of contacts. IIRC, it used to be capped at 4 players in a match day squad. That number is about right to me. I don't think that there's a comparison to the other sides you've mentioned. Pirates don't take that many players (tops of 6 I'd have thought) and they tend of be season long. It's a far cry from the rotating door policy at Hartpury. [/QUOTE]
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