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5 minutes ago, come on shire said:

Also, it's just been announced that Peter Murchie's retired with immediate effect.

he has been a coach with Stade Niçois (as part of the SRU performance pathway) since he left Glasgow in the summer

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Scotsman carried new details of SRU's 'Super 6' plan at the weekend.

Applications are due by March, decision in April, with announcement in May ("presuming they have enough candidates" it adds somewhat ominously).

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-union/ayr/will-super-six-be-the-saviour-or-slayer-of-club-rugby-1-4650338



Each 'franchise' must have a 5-man board: 3 chosen by themself, 1 chosen by SRU, plus the coach (over whom Scott Johnson has power of veto).

Season is now only 10 league games (5H 5A) not 15, with unspecified playoffs and B&I matches to make 20 games overall.


SRU will pay £75k for coach wages and £62.5k for players wages to be matched by the clubs giving total player wage bill of £150k.

Coaches can decide who to sign but only if they "keep the confidence" of Scott Johnson.

They have to contract 35 players and not pay more than £12k to any player, so players will have to combine part-time rugby with part-time outside employment. If my maths is right - unless clubs exceed their £62.5k contribution the average wage will be only £4,300.

Coach can terminate contracts of players who get injured and would miss more than 1/3 of season.

Pro-team players can be made available to Super 6 clubs. Due to new strict amateurism rules there will be an outright ban on Super 6 players being available to league clubs.
There was a sentence in that article that to me, suggests they may not get 6 applications. Is there much interest by the club's to make it a successful league.
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From previous reports it sounds like provincial sides - Ayr, Currie, Aberdeen, maybe Stirling - but how will they raise the £.

It'll be a bold Border or Edinburgh side to leave all their neighbours.


Edinburgh already has a pro rugby side so it’s doubtful that there’s a market for a semi pro side in Edinburgh proper.

I’m not even sure it could make sense in Currie

People who aren’t drawn away from Meggatland or Goldenacre by Edinburgh vs Leinster aren’t going to be tempted to cross the bypass for Currie vs. Ayr

The semi pro league only makes sense in local markets that are significant but not quite big enough to support a pro team



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From reading the article Melrose have not made up there mind. The whole everyone else has to be amateurs could push the border sides to setting up their own league if the SRU are not careful, as the club's that are left behind won't want to lose their best players to the super 6 but if they are not allowed to pay how can they keep them, so a border semi pro/ some get paid some dont league may be set up to keep Melrose gala Jed etc happy

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