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Re: Draw for Premiership Cup is 6th July
DIR By: Camquin
Date: July 17, 2018, 8:35 am
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Boonie
Therein lies the rub.
In the past fuding was so poor national league clubs were losing
money on a cup run.
However, there was at least some funding for travel in the
league.
Now that has been cut back to almost nothing.
So few national league treasurers would look kindly on
beingasked to give up league fixtures to make room for a cup -
with the risk of going out in your first game, away a long way
from home.
Would Harlequins and every other Premiership side give up £250k
of funding to put into the cup.
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Re: Draw for Premiership Cup is 6th July
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: July 17, 2018, 9:12 am
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I'd also say that the gulf between levels was a lot less as
little as 20 years ago. Players had only just turned
professional, so levels of fitness, skills, etc weren't orders
of magnitude greater for the top clubs as they were for clubs
one or two levels below them. Now, could you *seriously* think
that any club apart from a couple of championship teams could
offer any sort of resistance to even struggling Premiership
teams like we were last season? Much as I love to see Quins
running in tries, posting cricket scores on lower level teams
doesn't really appeal to me.
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Re: Draw for Premiership Cup is 6th July
DIR By: never sleep
Date: July 17, 2018, 9:18 am
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I think that a full strength Ealing team would probably beat one
of last year's average Anglo Welsh teams. Saints was the
exception as they fielded a fairly strong team.
The difficulty would come with dual-registered players. If
Richmond were to play Quins, then who would Luc Jones play for?
I think that Richmond without Luc Jones would lose whereas
Richmond with Luc Jones as playmaker would be a different story.
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