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3 hours ago, Doonhamer doon south said:


In theory a pro 12 b would be a good thing although I would probably go for two leagues of 10 personally. Promotion relegation playoff between them. But realistically I can't see it.

With the pro 12 now I personally think bringing the exiles in for the Italians would be a better all round option for boosting the league. The other option I think the SRU should maybe take advantage of is the looming collapse of the italians. Should Italy lose both teams and an American franchise comes in I think the SRU should revive a third pro team. Just to get it in the league. I would expect them to be under strength and finish near the bottom for the first few seasons but I think Scottish rugby is generally on the up. Maybe it's time.
 

I think the issue of a Pro12 b would be that it would not get the media coverage required and the sponsorship / tv deals / finance wouldn't be their to support it. The main purpose of it being to get the Georgians, Spanish & Germans up to tier 1 level, and to give development time to younger players it probabaly wouldn't work with some decent money behind it.

There has always been talk of bring in the exiles but would they want to be part of the Pro12?

On the scottish pro league i beleive it was jst the case of giving the 8 best teams (although with stadia criteria) a set amount of money each year to pay players, and also dish out the institute of sport / surplus Glasgow & edinburgh teams to a smaller number of teams, hence building the quality. I believe the money available though has been spent on giving the 2 teams bigger budgets, which would have to be cut significantly to fund either a 3rd pro team or a pro league.

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Because apparently there is no football on Tv today (first Saturday I've had off that I've not been out this year and apparently there's no football) I'm watching the English rugby semi-finals. Who should I support?

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Just BT Sport these days. Working weekends was enough for me to cancel sky but thought there would be something on. Some German football but don't really care about that. Might put on the Roma match this evening.

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I know the uk has that no love football at 3pm rule but seems like a terrible shame neither of the two relegation candidates are on Tv. Two huge football games in the top flight this weekend but the televised match is a dead rubber.

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Two wins from two for Scotland in the Sevens. It's weird watching a sport expecting Scotland to win... even weirder when they regularly live up to those expectations!

Wasn't always that way but Mccrae has done a fine job in last two seasons as coach. Interesting to see what he does as embra defensive coach. Certainly plenty of room for improvement there.
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