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<blockquote data-quote="welshglory" data-source="post: 798013" data-attributes="member: 38673"><p>I should expand on my point.</p><p></p><p>What i'm saying is that it isn't as effective as it should be in terms of being a development competition. At the end of the day it is a league system and they are "professional" clubs whose aim is to be promoted to the premiership/win the league if you're Bedford.</p><p></p><p>The vast majority of elite players in England come through the RFU age grade systems and premiership club academies. They hardly ever come through the national leagues and championship etc... To start developing top elite players and be able to retain them yourself, you need to have an RFU Academy licence, which are regionally based and bid on by rival clubs anyway.</p><p></p><p>So it's kind of just a league for rejects with a sprinkling of dual loaned young prospects from the Premiership if you think about it. Just like the Welsh Premiership and AIL league. Which clubs from the Championship and National Leagues can you honestly see doing an Exeter in the near future?</p><p></p><p>I believe the RFU want to change the system, that's why they refuse to increase funding. The Premiership clubs want to ring fence and see no use for most of the Championship clubs, bar a few that's why they refuse to bring them under their umbrella like the Top clubs do with the Pro D2.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="welshglory, post: 798013, member: 38673"] I should expand on my point. What i'm saying is that it isn't as effective as it should be in terms of being a development competition. At the end of the day it is a league system and they are "professional" clubs whose aim is to be promoted to the premiership/win the league if you're Bedford. The vast majority of elite players in England come through the RFU age grade systems and premiership club academies. They hardly ever come through the national leagues and championship etc... To start developing top elite players and be able to retain them yourself, you need to have an RFU Academy licence, which are regionally based and bid on by rival clubs anyway. So it's kind of just a league for rejects with a sprinkling of dual loaned young prospects from the Premiership if you think about it. Just like the Welsh Premiership and AIL league. Which clubs from the Championship and National Leagues can you honestly see doing an Exeter in the near future? I believe the RFU want to change the system, that's why they refuse to increase funding. The Premiership clubs want to ring fence and see no use for most of the Championship clubs, bar a few that's why they refuse to bring them under their umbrella like the Top clubs do with the Pro D2. [/QUOTE]
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