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<blockquote data-quote="coolbawn" data-source="post: 592054" data-attributes="member: 70385">Hmm. Do you actually watch the Rabo matches ?! I imagine not. Did you see the intensity of the matches, the all-out joy of, say,&nbsp; Leinster winning last year and their abject disgust at being pipped by the Ospreys the year before ? Even English and French clubs rest players when they can so are we to believe that those championships are not &quot;tooth and claws competitions&quot; ?!The difference is that your clubs are now owned by people who insist on maximizing their profit short-term - at the expense of the Rabo league preferably and probably to the detriment of the English playing community. Probably the English national team will suffer soon as the number of English players falls.Raboland has developed a formula that works, is getting more and more popular (attendances, TV audiences and online viewing/hits) and is helping the Irish do well at provincial level and the Welsh and Italians at national level. Destroy that and you won&#039;t have much meaningful rugby to watch outside your league and if your clubs don&#039;t have the incentive of a proper Euro league to qualify for, what then ?It&#039;s complex and I&#039;m sure I&#039;m contradicting myself somewhere so I&#039;ll shut up now and get back to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coolbawn, post: 592054, member: 70385"] Hmm. Do you actually watch the Rabo matches ?! I imagine not. Did you see the intensity of the matches, the all-out joy of, say, Leinster winning last year and their abject disgust at being pipped by the Ospreys the year before ? Even English and French clubs rest players when they can so are we to believe that those championships are not "tooth and claws competitions" ?! The difference is that your clubs are now owned by people who insist on maximizing their profit short-term - at the expense of the Rabo league preferably and probably to the detriment of the English playing community. Probably the English national team will suffer soon as the number of English players falls. Raboland has developed a formula that works, is getting more and more popular (attendances, TV audiences and online viewing/hits) and is helping the Irish do well at provincial level and the Welsh and Italians at national level. Destroy that and you won't have much meaningful rugby to watch outside your league and if your clubs don't have the incentive of a proper Euro league to qualify for, what then ? It's complex and I'm sure I'm contradicting myself somewhere so I'll shut up now and get back to work. [/QUOTE]

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