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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 3100040, member: 8988"] The problem with the relegation system is the league can't support some of the clubs as it is now. Imagine throwing a few more in that can't rely on TV incomes to survive. At current, despite their grand history, the ISC and Metropolitan cups are little more than NRL reserve grade sides. They live and die, not by their results, but by their ability to bring juniors through the ranks. If they have to compete to succeed, a lot will change. Certainly, some players might get loaned out to lower teams, but it would be at the lower teams discretion, and with no commitment to necessarily play him as the Big club wants. Imagine someone like Dearden playing hooker to fill a gap, or perhaps a forward playing wing because that's where they need him. Furthermore, you couldn't just take them back week to week as we do now. It would soon become apparent that the team of non-loaned players would be much better off thank to not losing their halfback, hooker or fullback week to week. Since fringe players getting to play in spine positions is core to their development, it would definitely take some adjustment. What happens to the club loaned a halfback whilst they linger in div 2, only to find themselves promoted and playing the side they borrowed him from? Or would a club promoted face a mass exodus of players as the senior club takes its players back? What if a have borrowed from a div 1 team get suspended playing his own side? [/QUOTE]

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