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<blockquote data-quote="Kempistry" data-source="post: 697274" data-attributes="member: 70932">To give you some context my club beat the Montreal Irish twice this year and got pounded like 70-20 by Balmy Beach, albeit with a weakened team. It isn&#039;t that teams like the Montreal Iriah are lacking for equal competition closer to home. The Ottawa Irish are playing in the Al Charron Cup way off in Newfoundland or wherever but lost a combined 100-20 in two games against a local team. They don&#039;t need to travel for competition, only variety. I think it&#039;d be more interesting to have some sort of representative rugby superior to club level but maybe sub CRC. Not sure how you do that. If you took all the best players from Quebec then you might compete with a Balmy Beach or whomever. Quebec recently put together a representative sevens team to play a tournament and I think they did well. I think that&#039;s a better option supposing you can get decent competition. Or alternatively permanently split leagues by tier so that the best players, as much as possible, are all playing against each other. Again geography is the main impediment to all these great ideas!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kempistry, post: 697274, member: 70932"] To give you some context my club beat the Montreal Irish twice this year and got pounded like 70-20 by Balmy Beach, albeit with a weakened team. It isn't that teams like the Montreal Iriah are lacking for equal competition closer to home. The Ottawa Irish are playing in the Al Charron Cup way off in Newfoundland or wherever but lost a combined 100-20 in two games against a local team. They don't need to travel for competition, only variety. I think it'd be more interesting to have some sort of representative rugby superior to club level but maybe sub CRC. Not sure how you do that. If you took all the best players from Quebec then you might compete with a Balmy Beach or whomever. Quebec recently put together a representative sevens team to play a tournament and I think they did well. I think that's a better option supposing you can get decent competition. Or alternatively permanently split leagues by tier so that the best players, as much as possible, are all playing against each other. Again geography is the main impediment to all these great ideas!! [/QUOTE]

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