I agree. It is a different scenario to someone like crusaders aswell, whereby there will be much higher travel expenses. Roughyeds idea about an irish select team is a good one, but its going to be very difficult to properly fund any type of team to play in the championship or super league.

5 years is wildly optimistic. It will fall flat on its face if assembled to fit it in that timescale.

Its not the whole point, but it is a big one. And we should see Crusaders bringing through the best welsh players into an SL enviroment over the next few years

If they last that long

Of course it is, thats the whole point.

Which of course they would, and they would certainly be able to bring players through into an SL enviroment if only they had less visibility, lower crowds, less sponsorship, in a poorer stadium and didnt play at SL level apparently.

So can we just accept that you dont really know of any good or logical argument as to why "actual real welsh players (whose development was largely funded by crusaders btw), playing in a poorer quality stadium, at a lower level, with less support, less visibility, less sponsorship mean that SWS are firstly 'better' than Crusaders and secondly more sustainable than Crusaders?"

No more than a side from Hull existing to play and develop talent from East Yorkshire