LeCheese
Greg Davis (50)
Absolutely agree that exisiting teams must remain, and we need to be careful not to dilute their support. Purely theorising, but if we’re wanting a domestic comp, why not make it truly national and bring in an Adelaide and/or Darwin based team?Personally I am strongly against not using the existing teams in a new comp. The Waratahs and Reds are some of our best IP and have established membership bases. For a new comp that needs everything to go right it would be insane to do away with that in favour of entirely new teams everywhere like the NRC had (even if some of them are basically just the Super Rugby team by another name).
New teams probably will struggle but we also don't improve our competition by bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator.
As I said, I’m just spitballing and this wouldn’t be easy task, but Adelaide is no stranger to rugby, and being the first pro team for a football code (or any code?) in Darwin could have some recruiting benefits.