Better than the LV Cup.
There would have to be pretty strict conditions - such as no sides automatically qualify for any European qualification places.
I don't think the league would need enlarging by more than 1 team in the longer term - the current 2 divisions could become 3 with automatic 2 up and 2 down from each league.
That 1 extra slot would allow the Welsh sides to nominate 2 teams to automatically join the existing premiership (and 2 to join div 2) - then in the first year 3 sides would be relegated from divs 1 & 4 from Div 2 with just 2 going up. After that a reversion to 2 up 2 down.
Anglo-Welsh league, anyone?
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Re: Anglo-Welsh league, anyone?
There is a terrible intensity about Welsh Rugby, its followers and players, that make the various rivalries in the English game look petty and petulant.
A team of Tigers standing deserves a better rival than the motley crew of Wanderers teams of the last few years.
We need a new best enemy and the Welsh are able to provide several excellent candidates. Bring it on!
A team of Tigers standing deserves a better rival than the motley crew of Wanderers teams of the last few years.
We need a new best enemy and the Welsh are able to provide several excellent candidates. Bring it on!
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Now it seems the clubs/franchises have turned down a meeting with the WRFU, sounds like proper turmoil.
"If you want entertainment, go to the theatre," says Edinburgh head coach Richard Cockerill. "Rugby players play the game to win.15/1/21.
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Welsh rugby needs something as it slides down the priority sport table there. The WRU have IMO single-handedly destroyed the game there over 3 decades by their autocratic behaviour. Perhaps PRL seems a far more professional body than WRU or indeed our darling RFU with financial advantages to the regions. It certainly would be to the advantage of Dragons who get sod-all out of the present arrangement and are closer to Barf than to Llanelli.
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A game played on grass in the open air by teams of XV.
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A game played on grass in the open air by teams of XV.
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Would the Welsh teams still be allow 16 men on the pitch against premiership sides.
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Wow...this was discussed basically as nothing more than a political ploy for gallagher etc to put pressure on the WRU...but I guess it doesn't take much for you English supremacist lot to go all silly and to tell the welsh off huh.
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Who are you calling English?
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Re: Anglo-Welsh league, anyone?
i dont like the sound of it just stick with hc or if we had to change it a australian newzealand and english competition
Re: Anglo-Welsh league, anyone?
1 you assume we are all English!welshy08 wrote:Wow...this was discussed basically as nothing more than a political ploy for gallagher etc to put pressure on the WRU...but I guess it doesn't take much for you English supremacist lot to go all silly and to tell the welsh off huh.
2 my post is from the viewpoint of one who lived in Wales and watched the Whites when I wasn't playing, and whose eldest played for Wales at junior level
3 I actually worked with one of the big 3 from the turn of the 90s
4 I want the best for Welsh rugby - and it isn't the current setup.
5 A regular Tigers - Ospreys/Cardiff game? Bring it on!
So put a sock in the heavyweight chip syndrome - most of us want the best for Wales and rugby in general.
Leicester Tigers 1995-
Nottingham 1995-2000
Swansea (Whites) 1988-95
A game played on grass in the open air by teams of XV.
Nottingham 1995-2000
Swansea (Whites) 1988-95
A game played on grass in the open air by teams of XV.