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SaleTown
Mini and Juniors Joined: 03 Sep 2024 Location: Sale Status: Offline Points: 2 |
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There are so many issues with this.
Just two off the top of my head. I wonder if the RFU understand the potential legal backlash from clubs if a team is parachuted (especially if they don't have a team or coaches and haven't played a game of rugby in two years) in above a club that can evidence that they exceed the arbitrary minimum standards?
The other item is that's quite interesting is the financial stability section. The only financial Stability they require is for 2025/2026. That's not stability. Clubs like Caldy (who will struggle to satisfy the minimum criteria), with a second and third team with 100's of M&J's and volunteers are a far more sustainable club than clubs who have one professional team backed by a sugar daddy who might drop dead/go broke/lose interest at any moment. Rugby is full of clubs/teams that pumped money in season by season and then crashed and burned when the money disappeared. This proposal appears to be rewarding that model, not preventing it. The reality is, in a hundred years, clubs who own their own property (or a long lease at least), have diverse revenue streams away from match day, have minis and juniors as members of the club, have a solid plan to spend within their means and create a welcoming family atmosphere will survive. The others I'm not so sure about. |
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Thatbloke
World Cup Winner Joined: 02 Sep 2017 Location: Newport Status: Online Points: 1748 |
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I'm sure Big Eddie will clarify soon enough but I don't think Caldy (and clubs of a similar ilk) will aspire to be part of this jamboree? It's criminal that the RFU refuses to recognise what such clubs have achieved through sheer hard work and financially sustainable ambitions only to throw it all back in their faces and say "you're not wanted" (carefully disguised within minimum standards)
Shameful
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Breakdown
First XV regular Joined: 11 Apr 2023 Location: SW London Status: Online Points: 78 |
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This part is so Orwellian that I think I almost threw up on my keyboard at its utter deviousness, disinformation and transparent malignancy:
"There will be a play-off transition mechanic to drive a jeopardy narrative between the adjacent leagues." |
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Broken down. Beyond repair.
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Thatbloke
World Cup Winner Joined: 02 Sep 2017 Location: Newport Status: Online Points: 1748 |
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You could perhaps add "to be manipulated by whatever means to ensure that clubs we want in a certain league remain in that league"
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