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<blockquote data-quote="dirty harry" data-source="post: 1213014" data-attributes="member: 86934">I actually quite like this U20 idea. Brings the younger players on, spends time with the seniors etc...I&#039;m not sure how viable a full u20 season would be, like you said costs are pretty big, and taking another 25 people to SA would be expensive. Maybe an inter region comp though, where U20s play a against their regional for the first half of the season, and the 2nd half they play a 5 team tournament in the format you propose pre URC game weekends.Keeping costs down firs half being local, and then the top 5 teams of 1 from each nation spend 6 weeks playing 5 games each, leading to a winner. I don&#039;t hate a 2nd URC division, but I think it would have to be invitational. Could SA potentially enter Cheetahs, Georgia could fund 1 team, Scotland probably could afford 1, Ireland could afford to run 4 more provinces, maybe A teams of the current with limitations of non promotion, but certainly Wales and Italy couldn&#039;t I wouldn&#039;t have thought. Unless a financial backer could get a Ponty team up and running, but considering they don&#039;t play in the new Welsh competition now, seems unlikely. The WRU have ****** welsh rugby so hard, the valleys is adrift.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dirty harry, post: 1213014, member: 86934"] I actually quite like this U20 idea. Brings the younger players on, spends time with the seniors etc... I'm not sure how viable a full u20 season would be, like you said costs are pretty big, and taking another 25 people to SA would be expensive. Maybe an inter region comp though, where U20s play a against their regional for the first half of the season, and the 2nd half they play a 5 team tournament in the format you propose pre URC game weekends. Keeping costs down firs half being local, and then the top 5 teams of 1 from each nation spend 6 weeks playing 5 games each, leading to a winner. I don't hate a 2nd URC division, but I think it would have to be invitational. Could SA potentially enter Cheetahs, Georgia could fund 1 team, Scotland probably could afford 1, Ireland could afford to run 4 more provinces, maybe A teams of the current with limitations of non promotion, but certainly Wales and Italy couldn't I wouldn't have thought. Unless a financial backer could get a Ponty team up and running, but considering they don't play in the new Welsh competition now, seems unlikely. The WRU have ****** welsh rugby so hard, the valleys is adrift. [/QUOTE]

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