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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 774010" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories aside, yes. Rugby has been professional for 20 years now and Wales is a capitalist country, subject to UK and EU law. Why should an ambitious team be denied the opportunity to better themselves just to save the blushes of their competitors within the free market economy that is pro / semi-pro rugby? You seem unhappy to be sat outside the effective ring fence that the regions create, yet you seek to effectively ring fence Merthyr.</p><p></p><p>The club I support (Redruth RFC funnily enough) has a lot of similarities with Ponty. We're a small town in a very poor area with a much wealthier club 20 miles or so down the road who have cherry picked the best of the talent developed and / or identified by us since the advent of professionalism. I've long since made my peace that the challenge for every club is to make the best of the hand dealt to them - in Redruth's case, strong support and am proud that the club's custodians have done this and still manage to compete a level higher than they did at the advent of league rugby in England, against teams from much bigger towns and cities in much wealthier areas of the country.</p><p></p><p>The BIC is not the property of the PP or its member clubs, it is a competition that invites the WRU to enter 4 teams. In the past, they chose to give this opportunity to the PP, this season, they have chosen to follow the IRU's lead and give it to the regions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 774010, member: 58362"] Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories aside, yes. Rugby has been professional for 20 years now and Wales is a capitalist country, subject to UK and EU law. Why should an ambitious team be denied the opportunity to better themselves just to save the blushes of their competitors within the free market economy that is pro / semi-pro rugby? You seem unhappy to be sat outside the effective ring fence that the regions create, yet you seek to effectively ring fence Merthyr. The club I support (Redruth RFC funnily enough) has a lot of similarities with Ponty. We're a small town in a very poor area with a much wealthier club 20 miles or so down the road who have cherry picked the best of the talent developed and / or identified by us since the advent of professionalism. I've long since made my peace that the challenge for every club is to make the best of the hand dealt to them - in Redruth's case, strong support and am proud that the club's custodians have done this and still manage to compete a level higher than they did at the advent of league rugby in England, against teams from much bigger towns and cities in much wealthier areas of the country. The BIC is not the property of the PP or its member clubs, it is a competition that invites the WRU to enter 4 teams. In the past, they chose to give this opportunity to the PP, this season, they have chosen to follow the IRU's lead and give it to the regions. [/QUOTE]
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