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<blockquote data-quote="The_Wol" data-source="post: 980594" data-attributes="member: 37787"><p>Use the Premier Rugby/Shute Shield as a relegation tournament for QLD and NSW, top 2 teams of each competition make it through to the next level, include one team from Canberra rugby, two teams from Victorian premier rugby and two from Western Australia. Logistically there isn't too much of a difference in regards to travel costs.</p><p></p><p>The question about amateurs if their club goes pro wouldn't really change, currently Shute Shield is Semi Professional and Brisbane Premier Rugby is Semi professional (though more under the table than Shute), NRC is very much semi professional with a professional gloss. The benefit of the existing club idea is you have professional players playing for a club they have history with, and fans of a club they have history with getting behind their teams. </p><p></p><p>I never played for Brothers, but I would go to watch games where David Croft fronted up for them after the Reds season, and enjoyed it immensely when Reds players would come out and train with my club when the season was over because that was their junior club. Now you lose that aspect of being a part of professional rugby while being an amateur. It's that disconnect with the rugby community that is hurting the sport (And the fact Aus clubs keep getting rolled by NZ and South Africa).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The_Wol, post: 980594, member: 37787"] Use the Premier Rugby/Shute Shield as a relegation tournament for QLD and NSW, top 2 teams of each competition make it through to the next level, include one team from Canberra rugby, two teams from Victorian premier rugby and two from Western Australia. Logistically there isn't too much of a difference in regards to travel costs. The question about amateurs if their club goes pro wouldn't really change, currently Shute Shield is Semi Professional and Brisbane Premier Rugby is Semi professional (though more under the table than Shute), NRC is very much semi professional with a professional gloss. The benefit of the existing club idea is you have professional players playing for a club they have history with, and fans of a club they have history with getting behind their teams. I never played for Brothers, but I would go to watch games where David Croft fronted up for them after the Reds season, and enjoyed it immensely when Reds players would come out and train with my club when the season was over because that was their junior club. Now you lose that aspect of being a part of professional rugby while being an amateur. It's that disconnect with the rugby community that is hurting the sport (And the fact Aus clubs keep getting rolled by NZ and South Africa). [/QUOTE]
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