Brumby Runner
Jason Little (69)
@Brumby Runner the ACT don't have a thriving Club comp, not the player base not currently playing Super Rugby. But anyway the point isn't for specific teams perse, but frankly USyd would be far better than the Vikings, but I'm sure most everyone except you would agree.
@Bullrush you could easily have NZ coaches teach Aussie or SA coaches or whatever. Again not saying all those specifics are what they should have done, but point is they are options.
The point is there are many things the NZ teams or SANZAAR could have done to ensure the competition remained more competitive top to bottom.
ZC, I am bemused by this comment. There was another poster who suggested the Vikings, not me. I simply responded to your comment that the Vikings and Brumbies would find it hard to co-exist, or something to that effect. I pointed out that Sydney Uni and the Waratahs would be similar, because it seems that the majority of Tahs players advancing from the Shute Shield come out of Sydney Uni. There are howls of disgust on these threads almost every year from SS fans who are pissed off that half the Tahs revert to Sydney Uni at the end of Super and in time to make the SS finals.
I have no great liking for the idea that the Vikings could enter a NRC type competition alongside the Brumbies, but if finances were the determining factor, I daresay they would be a whole lot more successful than a standalone Sydney Uni team.