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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 399673" data-attributes="member: 13739">Fair enough, your knowlage of the Welsh Prem is far superior to mine. Pitty that RGC has been kinda put on the backburner, although it was always going to take time imo, due to the lack of quality clubs to underpin it in the North. It will take time for the academy to hit it&#039;s stride, hopefully translating into one or two high quality club sides that can feed the regional side. At a rough guess, based on almost nothing but a small amount of knowlage of the difference in quality between the clubs in the North and South, I don&#039;t think we&#039;ll see RGC as a true region competing against the Magners teams for another 10 years or longer, not by using home-grown talent. If they got the same funding though, they could lure some players from the other regions to complement what is and will be coming out of the academy, along with a few foreigners.&nbsp;It&#039;s almost a decision as to whether the region is left to grow steadily over a large period of time, or fund it properly and do something more along the lines of Austrailia did with the rebels, and buy in quality players to draw the crowds, kick starting the region to some degree. I&#039;m not sure which is the best approach, possibly a mixture of the two, as I&#039;m hoping is the stratergy at the moment. Start off slow and allow the academy to develop, then when it&#039;s producing a stream of potential players reaching the correct age, increase the funding in order to buy a team which the youngsters can slot into when ready.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 399673, member: 13739"] Fair enough, your knowlage of the Welsh Prem is far superior to mine. Pitty that RGC has been kinda put on the backburner, although it was always going to take time imo, due to the lack of quality clubs to underpin it in the North. It will take time for the academy to hit it's stride, hopefully translating into one or two high quality club sides that can feed the regional side. At a rough guess, based on almost nothing but a small amount of knowlage of the difference in quality between the clubs in the North and South, I don't think we'll see RGC as a true region competing against the Magners teams for another 10 years or longer, not by using home-grown talent. If they got the same funding though, they could lure some players from the other regions to complement what is and will be coming out of the academy, along with a few foreigners. It's almost a decision as to whether the region is left to grow steadily over a large period of time, or fund it properly and do something more along the lines of Austrailia did with the rebels, and buy in quality players to draw the crowds, kick starting the region to some degree. I'm not sure which is the best approach, possibly a mixture of the two, as I'm hoping is the stratergy at the moment. Start off slow and allow the academy to develop, then when it's producing a stream of potential players reaching the correct age, increase the funding in order to buy a team which the youngsters can slot into when ready. [/QUOTE]

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