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Not so. But, as you say, it's done now.

New clubs have always been discriminated against. Whether phoenix or genuine expansion. It's almost like the game wants as few clubs as possible

Silence is golden.

That's what we should be wanting to achieve. Which is why the Circle of Clubs is not the daft idea some would have us believe.

I didn't say it was.

Well, not really. NFL kick-off isn't from halfway. If we kicked off from, say the 20m line, the first ptb wouldn't be in such a disadvantageous position territorially.

But is that not because the game is being played between teams of roughly equal ability with an uncertainty of outcome?

I can see you're beginning to have doubts of your own.

I go back to my point that a pre season comp is not the cash cow you believe it to be.

Coaches don't want cohesion and narrative. They want to give twenty-odd players a bit of a preseason run out to see how they go in a match situation.

There is an option. Nothing to stop three or four clubs getting their heads together and putting together a few fixtures. I don't think it would be the crowd-puller that you seem to think it would be.

Duuno. I'm not saying I wouldn't mind a go but I don't see it as much of a spectator sport.

Archery.

Darts, snooker - anything that's not a real sport.