Choose Rugby


CHOOSE RUGBY.

Choose a club. Choose a team. Choose a family. Choose a f*cking big prop; choose jumpers, tactics, big mean forwards and lightning fast backs. Choose good health, low blows, and dental insurance. Choose fixed stares and intimidating hakas. Choose a starting line-up. Choose a top-end scrum machine on hire purchase in a range of f*cking colours. Choose ICU and wondering where the f*ck you've woken up on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that icecold bench watching mind-numbing, spirit-enriching live matches, stuffing f*ucking cold pies into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of the night, pishing your last in a miserable outhouse, nothing less than a legend to the selfish, f*cked-up brats you trained to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose Rugby.


ESCOLHA RUGBY.

Escolha Rugby. Escolha um clube. Escolha um time. Escolha uma familia. Escolha um prop do c*ralho; escolha segunda-linhas, táticas, grandes e crueis forwards, e rápidos backs. Escolha uma boa saúde, golpes baixos, e o plano dental. Escolha olhares fixos e hakas intimidantes.
Escolha um ponto de partida line-up. Escolha seus amigos. Escolha agasalho e kitbags combinando. Escolha uma máquina potente de scrum comprada ou de alugada em uma gama de cores do c*ralho. Escolha UTI e se perguntando onde diabos você acordou numa manhã de domingo. Escolha sentar naquele banco assistindo entorpecido mentalmente, com espírito enriquecedor aos jogos ao vivo, estufando de tortas frias do c*ralho em sua boca. Escolha apodrecer no final da noite, xingando seu passado em uma casinha miserável, nada mais do que uma lenda para os egoístas, pirralhos f*dido você treinou para substitui-lo. Escolha o seu futuro. Escolha Rugby.


Sunday 10 October 2010

SuperDuper League 2011 : The Proposal


I believe the format of Brasil's national league would improve by being changed.













The dog's dinner image above shows what we have at present - no its not the Super XV, its the Super 8, and no its not the ABR, it is now the CBRu, oh do pay attention 007.


This year's Super League had eight teams, playing each other once (seven matches). There were five teams from Sao Paulo state, and one each from Rio de Janeiro,  Parana, and Santa Catarina states. 
The CBRu (Brasil Rugby Confederation) plans to add two teams next year, one from Rio Grande do Sul state, and one more from Sao Paulo state. (i.e. nine matches for each team.)
There is also a playoff for this year's last placed team, and they could be replaced by a team from Minas Gerais state. 

This will increase every team's travel expenses substantially, which is a BAD THING. 
Currently there is very little money in Brasilian rugby, the game is mostly amateur and without major sponsors. So...


I believe the sport's elite teams would be better served if the national championship had an initial regional format, leading into fully national knockout semifinals and final.  
Based on the current top teams, this would give us the following divisions:

Region 1, South (three states) -  four teams playing home and away: Desterro, Curitiba, Farrapos, Charrua. 

Region 2, Sao Paulo state - four or five teams playing home and away: Bandeirantes, SPAC, Pasteur, Rio Branco, Sao Jose dos Campos. 

Region 3, South-East (three states) - four teams playing home and away: Niteroi, Rio Rugby, Belo Horizonte, plus 1 other. 

This structure gives 6 or 8 quality games for each team, with reduced travel costs. The three group winners plus best runner-up go to semifinals (with these travel costs paid by the Confederation). 

The regions can expand to have more teams in them, and other regions can be formed, as and when required.



But it all needs a new name, as frankly my deahs "SuperLeague" is just soo passé.  How about the...  

AWESOME LEAGUE TM 

        24/7 ATTACK !  TM




THAT will pull in the sponsors! 



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