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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1178198" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>I was going to say - that's called Rugby League.</p><p></p><p>As far as I'm aware, there's 1 seat at WR per nation; if the clubs want to go their own way, and split from the RFU, and take that seat at WR, they'd need to actually do so, convince at least half (more likely a supermajority) of English rugby clubs (that's not just the Prem, that's the 2,000 or so clubs out there) to ditch the RFU and start their own, with all systems in place (eg insurance, referees, school liasons etc etc, and then applying for membership of WR) - which seems a tad more complicated than calling an EGM and sacking the entire RFU board, and starting again from within the system.</p><p></p><p>If just a handful of clubs want to leave the RFU and set up on their own, then I guess they technically could - they just won't come under the World Rugby umbrella, and won't have anyone else to play with.</p><p>Trying to set up on their own AND still have access to everything World Rugby, would be like trying to Brexit, AND still have access to everything EU (except that instead of being 1 out of 27, it'd be 5 out a 270,000</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1178198, member: 73592"] I was going to say - that's called Rugby League. As far as I'm aware, there's 1 seat at WR per nation; if the clubs want to go their own way, and split from the RFU, and take that seat at WR, they'd need to actually do so, convince at least half (more likely a supermajority) of English rugby clubs (that's not just the Prem, that's the 2,000 or so clubs out there) to ditch the RFU and start their own, with all systems in place (eg insurance, referees, school liasons etc etc, and then applying for membership of WR) - which seems a tad more complicated than calling an EGM and sacking the entire RFU board, and starting again from within the system. If just a handful of clubs want to leave the RFU and set up on their own, then I guess they technically could - they just won't come under the World Rugby umbrella, and won't have anyone else to play with. Trying to set up on their own AND still have access to everything World Rugby, would be like trying to Brexit, AND still have access to everything EU (except that instead of being 1 out of 27, it'd be 5 out a 270,000 [/QUOTE]
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