Maybe unpopular idea, certainly has been in the past. Further I have reservations if it would work today, and the longer left the harder to do.
The idea is to create a competition run by investors who own the teams, and the competition, means selling existing teams to investors or existing teams paying some money to play.
Anyone that’s can recall my pleading of the past will understand the systems I like the best is the US franchise systems. The best of which I think is the MLS and the model copied by MLR in the US
Why revisit, especially when I think the time has passed.
Well, if media reports over the last few days are correct, the A-L which on most measures’ lags behind rugby, has sold two licences one to an Auckland based team 20 million paid, and it appears Perth has been sold for 20 million of which WA gov is kicking in 7 million. Canberra has buyers but they appear to be struggling to get the 20 million buy in price.
Again, it comes back to systems and structures, and whether rugby in Australia prepared to separate itself from running the professional competition. However, we now have a working example in MLR.
Link to MLR, tis worth a look, its very young and growing very fast.
www.majorleague.rugby