IF it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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That's the simple message to the board of Central West Rugby Union, who are looking to force the Dubbo Rhinos into splitting their two senior men's sides into different competitions in 2015.
When I first got wind of the idea late last week the first thing that came to my mind was there had been an element of whinging from other clubs within the GrainCorp Cup North competition.
I don't know if that's the case, but it's my suspicion.
After all, the small towns in that competition were going along merrily and there's always an assumption that having a club from a large centre in a competition automatically means they will win it.
Often that is the case, but as we've seen from the Narromine Gorillas in the Blowes Cup and Parkes Spacemen in Group 11 in recent times, it doesn't always work that way.
Those clubs have come from smaller centres to win competitions, and in the case of Narromine they won a competition featuring sides from Dubbo, Bathurst and Orange.
Heck, even though the Rhinos Gold did win the GrainCorp Northern competition this year they were beaten by Yeoval in the major semi-final and the grand final, against the same side, was a very tight contest won 19-14 by the Dubbo team.
Hardly the stuff of a big-town team coming into a small competition and dominating it.
Add to that the fact the Rhinos Black side fell into the finals and were eliminated in swift fashion and there's nothing to suggest having the two teams in the same competition was a bad thing.
Central West Rugby's stance is that by forcing one of the teams into the southern pool of the GrainCorp Cup it will help the Rhinos prosper.
They say the Rhinos had 90 registered players on the books this season and, effectively, that they're too strong to pool their resources into two teams in one competition.
I've already outlined above the Rhinos weren't dominant, despite winning the grand final, and there's no way they will have 90 players on their books if one of the teams has to go as far as West Wyalong to play a game of football.
The glory for them in being in the northern competition is the fact they can go to places as close as Wellington and Yeoval, play their footy and be back at home in order to support the sponsor or be home with their family at a decent hour.
Imagine a weekend where one team is at home, the other is playing away in West Wyalong and the Sheilas are playing somewhere different as well.
How is it helping the club grow when you conceivably have both the player and supporter base split three ways, and they can't even come together that night to celebrate their day of football?
Central West's charter is to grow the game of rugby in this region, and this year they had some pretty good football played across each competition.
It ain't broke, so there's no need to try and fix it.