Originally Posted by
TOCC
which isnt really a whole lot in essence...
Me personally, I like the concept of a national competition....
but, it was created in such a bad way, i mean the teams in Perth, Melbourne and Canberra might have worked because the lesser level of club rugby there.
But in Brisbane and Sydney, the ARC was a artificial level of rugby was inserted in between two levels of traditional rugby. It was a slap in the face towards clubs who have worked quite hard to improve themselves, only to be consigned to drop down a tier. Now i know some of the Sydney clubs played a large part in the downfall of the ARC, but if the ARC was created properly then they wouldnt have needed that.
Yes i was dissapointed to lose it, but Gary Flowers created it in a way that made it extremely difficult to be succesful financially. Having the ARU losing $5million/year just for the sake of giving players a 2month exposure to semi-professional rugby does not make sense to me.