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<blockquote data-quote="Beerfalo" data-source="post: 697566" data-attributes="member: 71326"><p>North America in Super Rugby eh. Sounds as crazy as Japan fielding a team in a SA conference. I can hear Super Rugby fans *****ing as I type haha. It could be an interesting set up in the future though I'm pretty sure it will never happen. A "realistic" future conference could be two American based teams, a Canadian and two Japanese franchises. I'm thinking LA and San Jose for America, Vancouver for Canada and Tokyo and ??? for Japan(I don't know Japan). They'd obviously need some T1 "mercenaries" to bolster the ranks but hopefully they'd look at a lot of domestic players. I could definitely see a future LA team throwing money at some older All Blacks to try and make a splash. I mean it is the LA way.</p><p></p><p>The travel time/distance would definitely suck but at least there's direct flights between each of the North American cities and Tokyo. I think the flight time is actually similar between Tokyo and the NA cities and Tokyo and the Aussie/NZ cities, just big time zone differences. The NA teams would also be quick flights from each other and are in the same time zone which is helpful. Venues could be BC Place(Vancouver), Avaya Stadium(San Jose) and StubHub Center/Future LAFC Stadium(Los Angeles). Just need to find investors/sponsors/owners to throw money at these teams and the greedy heads of Super Rugby. Can't be that hard right....</p><p></p><p>Then we have club rugby feeding the CRC teams. The CRC teams feed the Vancouver Bears(I like bears and this is my hypothetical team). Then the Bears and Europe feeds the CMNT. I'd like to see less and less 7s players jumping right into 15s play for the CMNT. </p><p></p><p><strong>Non-Super Rugby Talk but still CRC DREAM SECTIOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN</strong></p><p>Realistically my 16 team dream NARC isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever. But there might be two CRC expansion options, one of which I already talked about and really want. Rugby Canada needs to help the Voyageurs jump up to the senior level. Eastern Ontario/Quebec may not field the strongest team but it would give their players a chance that they don't really get with The Rock. Then there are the Seattle Saracens who need an increase in competition. If they don't get moved up to the CDI Premier League or transfer to the PRP maybe Rugby Canada could invite them to play in the CRC? They seem to make up a good chunk of the domestic Eagles and they play under the Canadian umbrella already(at least for now) so it could be a fit. Two new teams could give the 10(5H-5A) good/great quality games and give us three West teams and three East. Of course a TV deal would be nice as well, even if there's not much money at first it couldn't hurt to have TSN promoting the sport and league.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beerfalo, post: 697566, member: 71326"] North America in Super Rugby eh. Sounds as crazy as Japan fielding a team in a SA conference. I can hear Super Rugby fans *****ing as I type haha. It could be an interesting set up in the future though I'm pretty sure it will never happen. A "realistic" future conference could be two American based teams, a Canadian and two Japanese franchises. I'm thinking LA and San Jose for America, Vancouver for Canada and Tokyo and ??? for Japan(I don't know Japan). They'd obviously need some T1 "mercenaries" to bolster the ranks but hopefully they'd look at a lot of domestic players. I could definitely see a future LA team throwing money at some older All Blacks to try and make a splash. I mean it is the LA way. The travel time/distance would definitely suck but at least there's direct flights between each of the North American cities and Tokyo. I think the flight time is actually similar between Tokyo and the NA cities and Tokyo and the Aussie/NZ cities, just big time zone differences. The NA teams would also be quick flights from each other and are in the same time zone which is helpful. Venues could be BC Place(Vancouver), Avaya Stadium(San Jose) and StubHub Center/Future LAFC Stadium(Los Angeles). Just need to find investors/sponsors/owners to throw money at these teams and the greedy heads of Super Rugby. Can't be that hard right.... Then we have club rugby feeding the CRC teams. The CRC teams feed the Vancouver Bears(I like bears and this is my hypothetical team). Then the Bears and Europe feeds the CMNT. I'd like to see less and less 7s players jumping right into 15s play for the CMNT. [B]Non-Super Rugby Talk but still CRC DREAM SECTIOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN[/B] Realistically my 16 team dream NARC isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever. But there might be two CRC expansion options, one of which I already talked about and really want. Rugby Canada needs to help the Voyageurs jump up to the senior level. Eastern Ontario/Quebec may not field the strongest team but it would give their players a chance that they don't really get with The Rock. Then there are the Seattle Saracens who need an increase in competition. If they don't get moved up to the CDI Premier League or transfer to the PRP maybe Rugby Canada could invite them to play in the CRC? They seem to make up a good chunk of the domestic Eagles and they play under the Canadian umbrella already(at least for now) so it could be a fit. Two new teams could give the 10(5H-5A) good/great quality games and give us three West teams and three East. Of course a TV deal would be nice as well, even if there's not much money at first it couldn't hurt to have TSN promoting the sport and league. [/QUOTE]
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