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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 586389" data-attributes="member: 12699"><p>I will agree with this; however, it doesn't account for other nations like Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Slovenia, Austria, Italy, etc... becoming considerably stronger. I think privatization could help the game of rugby immensely and I will point to the KHL as an example of how this could work. The KHL has only been around since 2008 and it was born out of the Russian Super League. Right now it has 28 teams with 21 in Russia and 7 in 7 other countries but it is continuously expanding and is moving into non-traditional ice hockey markets as well as bringing in teams from traditional hockey markets as well. Next year, one of the biggest clubs in Finland, Jokerit, is going to join the league and I suspect others will start to follow suit. There is also a team from Italy, Hockey Milano Rossoblu, who are planning to join the league in 2014-2015 pending construction of a new bigger arena for them and Italy is by no means a major ice hockey country. </p><p></p><p>The IIHF, which is ice hockey's equivalent of the IRB, has placed its cards with the KHL as well. It wants a Pan-European league so their is a plan right now in place to replace the current model of European Ice Hockey, which is a promotion-relegation system based on national leagues (sounds a lot like rugby to me) with a Pan-European League broken up into two conferences with four divisions each. What they are looking at is a pro league of 64 teams across Europe that would be able to compete with the NHL and the plan is slowly coming together. Not only would this substantially raise the product of some of the present teams that would be part of the league, it would also bring far more money into the sport. </p><p></p><p>I am using this example to show you all that I believe this is what should happen in rugby. We need to break-down national leagues and take the power away from the unions. Privatize the leagues and let big business take control of the teams, you will come out in the end with a superior product and the sport of rugby will be better off for it. I believe the increased amount of capital will strengthen the sport and this will translate to a more competitive international game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 586389, member: 12699"] I will agree with this; however, it doesn't account for other nations like Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Slovenia, Austria, Italy, etc... becoming considerably stronger. I think privatization could help the game of rugby immensely and I will point to the KHL as an example of how this could work. The KHL has only been around since 2008 and it was born out of the Russian Super League. Right now it has 28 teams with 21 in Russia and 7 in 7 other countries but it is continuously expanding and is moving into non-traditional ice hockey markets as well as bringing in teams from traditional hockey markets as well. Next year, one of the biggest clubs in Finland, Jokerit, is going to join the league and I suspect others will start to follow suit. There is also a team from Italy, Hockey Milano Rossoblu, who are planning to join the league in 2014-2015 pending construction of a new bigger arena for them and Italy is by no means a major ice hockey country. The IIHF, which is ice hockey's equivalent of the IRB, has placed its cards with the KHL as well. It wants a Pan-European league so their is a plan right now in place to replace the current model of European Ice Hockey, which is a promotion-relegation system based on national leagues (sounds a lot like rugby to me) with a Pan-European League broken up into two conferences with four divisions each. What they are looking at is a pro league of 64 teams across Europe that would be able to compete with the NHL and the plan is slowly coming together. Not only would this substantially raise the product of some of the present teams that would be part of the league, it would also bring far more money into the sport. I am using this example to show you all that I believe this is what should happen in rugby. We need to break-down national leagues and take the power away from the unions. Privatize the leagues and let big business take control of the teams, you will come out in the end with a superior product and the sport of rugby will be better off for it. I believe the increased amount of capital will strengthen the sport and this will translate to a more competitive international game. [/QUOTE]
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