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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 586239" data-attributes="member: 12699"><p>You aren't understanding what I am getting at, what I am saying is national unions should have no part in running professional rugby teams. This is why I called pro rugby the equivalent of a communist planned economy because the unions are placing their own small interests ahead of the growth of the game globally. The whole of the Pro12 is a terrible example of how to run a professional league because teams are designed with the sole intention of feeding the national team at the expense of the competitions they actually play in and it is completely unsustainable financially. Picture what the Pro12 is going to look like in 20 years and private English and French clubs continue to grow and can offer bigger and bigger salaries, it is going to be a farce of a league. </p><p> </p><p>Rugby needs to invest more in their club game if they want to game to grow and it's not going to be the IRB that does the investing it is going to have to be through private means. Super Rugby is a great product but with the unions continuing to exert massive control over it, it is a shadow of what it could. I personally think the way forward for pro rugby is through franchising and a privatized European club game and southern hemisphere league. This will only benefit the players and further raise the calibre of rugby being played worldwide due to increased revenue and capital being spent on the game which in turn will lead to increased salaries for the players. Not only that it will also help tier 2 and 3 countries develop by giving their players a place to play which will benefit the international game immensely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 586239, member: 12699"] You aren't understanding what I am getting at, what I am saying is national unions should have no part in running professional rugby teams. This is why I called pro rugby the equivalent of a communist planned economy because the unions are placing their own small interests ahead of the growth of the game globally. The whole of the Pro12 is a terrible example of how to run a professional league because teams are designed with the sole intention of feeding the national team at the expense of the competitions they actually play in and it is completely unsustainable financially. Picture what the Pro12 is going to look like in 20 years and private English and French clubs continue to grow and can offer bigger and bigger salaries, it is going to be a farce of a league. Rugby needs to invest more in their club game if they want to game to grow and it's not going to be the IRB that does the investing it is going to have to be through private means. Super Rugby is a great product but with the unions continuing to exert massive control over it, it is a shadow of what it could. I personally think the way forward for pro rugby is through franchising and a privatized European club game and southern hemisphere league. This will only benefit the players and further raise the calibre of rugby being played worldwide due to increased revenue and capital being spent on the game which in turn will lead to increased salaries for the players. Not only that it will also help tier 2 and 3 countries develop by giving their players a place to play which will benefit the international game immensely. [/QUOTE]
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