Interest in a club based National Competition has been simmering in recent years due to the pandemic but after a bit of thought, it still makes a lot of sense. With no NRC on the horizon, the 2022 rugby season will finish for most in late August, early September this year. There's an empty window in the Australian rugby calendar and no third tier competition to give club and development players something to aspire to. The tribalism that saw crowds flock to suburban grounds to watch the likes of Warringah, GPS and Norths win grand finals pre Covid shows where the hearts of a lot of Australian rugby fans lie.  But how do you fit something like this in around the current club season? I think we can look to the Northern Hemisphere for help and mimic the format of the Heineken or European Cup.  Here’s how it could work.  Based on the previous seasons results, the top six club sides from Sydney, top four from Brisbane and Canberra and a side from Melbourne and Perth