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		<title>Isolated Clubs At Heart of RSL Decisions</title>
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			<title>Biggs says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/super-league-/5171-isolated-clubs-at-heart-of-rsl-decisions.html#comment-15453</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It's as simple as: 1. blow up the RSL 2. Make D1 your premier club rugby (some leagues may be dominated during the regular season but sweet 16 and on would be super competitive) 3. Create Regionalized Rep Rugby (preferably right after club season. similar to the old MLR or NASC) 4. Bring back the NA4 (but only 4 US teams maybe North, South, East, and West?) chosen from the rep and D1 squads. These squads should include current and potential eagles]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Biggs</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:36:46 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Seattle RFC says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Fred - Whatever happened to the Seattle Rugby Club? Does it still exist? Are they really OPSB now? Looks like two teams combined to make one competitive Super League club. Less clubs means less players. Quote Royle, Seattle RFC is around and has continued to play well in the BC Division 1. This year they lost in the Semi-Finals to the eventual league winner.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Seattle RFC</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:50:09 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>rugbyfan1 says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/super-league-/5171-isolated-clubs-at-heart-of-rsl-decisions.html#comment-15387</link>
			<description><![CDATA[the teams in the super league have spent, conservatively, 15 million dollars since its inception...mostly for travel / acommadations.... what i am saying is that with colorad playing souther cal for bragging rights...you could fill a 4000 seat staduim...everyone would be interested / have an interest....right now ..no one really cares if the denver barbarians win...except the denver barbarians...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rugbyfan1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:10:09 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>gkrazy says:</title>
			<link>http://www.rugbymag.com/super-league-/5171-isolated-clubs-at-heart-of-rsl-decisions.html#comment-15324</link>
			<description><![CDATA[rja - it's about consecutive games not seasons broken up by several months of inactivity. at the college level, it's not like USA rugby or the colleges have NCAA issues. rugby is not NCAA. incentives? why not take a page out of the NCAA playbook and play tough? it should be less about one individual school (or several schools) and more about what can advance US rugby at this point. sort of like which came 1st the chicken or the egg? i think we have to show a valid, viable product before we can start talking about initial incentives. more long term thinking here. it's no wonder that a small part of our country opted out of USA rugby years and years ago and they still manage to field teams, develop players, etc. in fact, I think one MT player went to Life a few years back and is now in the eagle pool, correct me if i'm wrong]]></description>
			<dc:creator>gkrazy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:18:35 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>rja1 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["its more players like you that need to speak up. imagine a D1 season 10-12 games followed by a RSL type season of 10-12 games with 7's after that" That exists now. I play MARFU DI and for the 2010 fall/2011 spring, I played 20 games total. For the 2011 fall/2012 spring, I played 19 games total. gkrazy, I think most people would agree with you there needs to be one season. The problem is you have to get everyone to agree, and they don't. The CPD had one set schedule and the Northeast schools threatened to break it off after one year. You can say that's being selfish, but what do you or USA Rugby give to them to make it worth their while so that they reduce their competitiveness and level of play and number of players? Nothing. USA Rugby is not powerful enough in this country to tell anyone what to do, and whenever they do make a decree we get 100 comments on this site and others of how it's a horribly ran bureaucracy nothing in touch with their constituents.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>rja1</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:57:25 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>gkrazy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[its more players like you that need to speak up. imagine a D1 season 10-12 games followed by a RSL type season of 10-12 games with 7's after that. top guys could play close to 30 games]]></description>
			<dc:creator>gkrazy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:04:47 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>gkrazy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[started play in the MW, moved to the rockies and then back to the MW, yes now in So Cal. we started indoors in february, moved outside in march and played games by the end of march. heck in the rockies, we practiced outside in the snow. everyone in So Cal complains locally about the rain - if it starts, we get kicked off all fields for both practice and playing. go figure. ever region has challenges. do you want US rugby to grow? show me another major sport that has such a confusing mixed up schedule?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>gkrazy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:56:57 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>marooned says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...as well as creating a higher level of Rugby competition to filter the elite talent into, something needed as the standard of Rugby athlete coming out of the Colleges and such is evident in the performances of the Eagles U20s t the JWRT. Play each other home and away (10 games). Market it to the Rugby public through the clubs that fall under each teams umbrella and set up a web based stream site to make it accessible to the wider Rugby community. In time they could elect add more teams (and hence more competitive local leagues)or merge it with the developing Canadian Rugby Championship which currently has 4 teams and are looking to increase it to 5 then 6 in the next few years (bringing it to 12 teams, play each other once for 11 games plus finals). As for scheduling, play it in the late spring/summer months to avoid conflict. Call it the Rugby Football League.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>marooned</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:49:30 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>Tom OHara says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[For all the reasons stated so far, there has to be a standardized season nationwide for ALL levels of rugby: club, collegiate and high school. And, for reasons that should be obvious,that season should be as far away from football as possible. High school rugby leagues all around the U.S. manage to get it done in the spring and they have the same problems with weather, final exams, graduation, etc. as the colleges. Timewise, clubs can afford to go later, and maybe they should-- perhaps have the regular season run from March through May, with playoffs through June and a Final Four on the weekend closest to Fourth of July. One advantage: a later club season would alleviate some of the current playoff/title game/tournament congestion and overload we have now in late May, early June: high school, collegiate and club at multiple levels, the CRC, the RSL, etc., etc.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tom OHara</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:41:12 --500</pubDate>
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			<title>marooned says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Information passed to me down the grape vine via another poster on another site who received an email suggested that the RSL may soon cease to exist. According to this email, the current RSL teams would fall back into D1 to further bolster the level of competition that currently exists at that level. The weaker D1 teams would go down to D2 and so on to elevate the standards of each respective division. So this argument maybe be void if true. The question should be, what would be a better replacement for the RSL. Personally, I liked the premise behind the old Major League Rugby concept. Identify the 6 strongest Rugby city or 'regions' in the form of leagues and create a new tier of representative Rugby. Make that in order to participate you first have to first play a season in the corresponding league structure in that city/region. This would ideally create 6 strong D1 leagues nationally (as it would naturally attract the best players)...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>marooned</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:38:07 --500</pubDate>
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