The reality of Tadhg Furlong's IRFU contract negotiations

Right now, the Premiership and RFU run the Premiership Rugby Cup which replaced the old Anglo-Welsh Cup., my idea would just serve as a better version of the latter. The best analogy I could give would be like an FA Cup for British rugby, which sits alongside the leagues. Welsh and English sides (especially in the southwest of England) miss the Anglo-Welsh Cup, and the Prem clubs all miss having 11 meaningful home fixtures instead of 9. A British Cup, structured the way I laid out, addresses both of those desires.

Right now, the Premiership Cup as is, is an afterthought played almost entirely by Prem academy sides and they still mostly stomp the Championship sides. I think a British Cup would get both a much more lucrative TV deal, and better attendance than the current Premiership Cup, while still keeping some of the Championship clubs involved too.

Here is the rest of your quote. That someone making this up is called the Financial Times.

Don't waste your thoughts, and your power, by jumping the gun though. We have to wait and see how Jordan develops, and who Razor gets as his replacement attacking coach. Don't want to be bleeting (no offence) all the time until that happens and then..

Being able to watch Heartland Rugby is surely a pleasure you don't get anywhere else huh. You can see the potential ABs that never were out there at the local park. Superb stuff

Yes that would be a great start if they truly did see value in the idea. Could it grow from there to replace the leagues do you think?

You have a glorified perspective on NZ rugby from all these affiliations of yours I suspect👍

Also, no one would even think that Lienster and most of the Irish teams don't have the best systems. Like I said "It's just a very specific requirement about how he does it now.". Whether that makes him better or not is irrelevant, as it would be if he switched and became an All Black, it wouldn't do him any good (and I really doubt they could use him half as well either).

The Championship does look like the better place to for Celtic clubs to join up with though, if they are really think about whats better for long term future. Much like with how people wanted the governance to go in NZ, all those 'money' professionals that will supposedly 'unlock' the game could more that likely turn it into a disaster ala Australian Rugby.

Here though I think this clearly has to be CVC wanting to make the most money from both of their leagues. Certainly don't want that greed to play a part like some posters have said, but it could be a really positive thing for all parties. As I guess how it has gone for all SR parties.

You're making Ed the Duck's opinions look bad with your comments SteveD. Suggest you stop? ;)

URC deal more than doubled when SA joined, so you have to think at least 25mil of that number is from SuperSport and only for the SA teams. It will also be fake, just a inflation number that is converted to mean 25mil worth inside South Africa, but if that money went outside, wouldn't total 10mil in real money.

Revenue also trumps everything in business. Most big new ventures run at a loss, heavily investing their revenue to balance the sheets better. As CVC owns some of both competitions I don't think you are going to see their relative year on year revenue growth. But we do get information on the clubs themselves, and the prem heavily outweigh the traditional URC teams (no idea how teams like the Sharks will be doing, although not relevant here anyway).

It's nothing against SA, when someone says theres more money in England, it a saying that usually means 'a bigger pot' to get potential revenue from. It's simple economics when it comes down to it a lot of the time is the suggestion, which of course, is perfectly if you don't believe (because theres always more too it), but sprouting silly stuff in return just makes you a laughing stock.