@rugbyexpansion @burotu13 @T2Rugby There is no requirement or real need for them now to sign overseas players. But they choose to. So saying they would survive without them seems a moot point .
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Dear 🇦🇺 Australia. Please do NOT transplant your own domestic issues onto the entire sport as a whole.
The sport risks TERRIBLE policy if they don't understand that Polynesians in Aus playing League should NOT be a priority for WORLD Rugby.
Tier 2 Rugby@T2Rugby
Listening to the Rugby Unity podcast with Eddie Jones & Ewen McKenzie and the discussion is "League, League, League, League". That is fine, but please will Aussies remember that is Australia centric. Hardly anybody else cares about League outside their low population region.
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Unpopular opinion: a treadmill mile and an outside running mile are NOT the same.
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Listening to the Rugby Unity podcast with Eddie Jones & Ewen McKenzie and the discussion is "League, League, League, League".
That is fine, but please will Aussies remember that is Australia centric. Hardly anybody else cares about League outside their low population region.
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@rugbyexpansion @burotu13 @T2Rugby But they choose not to. As there is so much talent in the PI-NZ-Aust.
So much for being a rugby expansionist
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@markwelch7 @burotu13 @T2Rugby I mean of course there are a lot more than national teams but i’m sure club teams would also still survive without.
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@SRHNarborough @BallymoreKing @T2Rugby People comment based on their perspective. So it’s hard to ignore RL in the region. The countries you listed have (in mens) won 5 RWCs, the greatest 7s teams in history, as well players that play for clubs and most international teams around the world. Let alone coaches
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@BallymoreKing @T2Rugby Your comment implies this is a much wider problem than originally claimed. I am pointing out that it really isn't, and you're being a tad pedantic by suggesting it being Oceania-wide.
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@OGHustle_Rugby @KoroTeeps There is a question of what is super rugby for? Serving the national team or the comp itself?
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@KoroTeeps It's the product and how it's delivered as a whole that's slowly killing domestic rugby.
The ABs will always attract big crowds but anything under it is dying a slow death.
Even as a diehard rugby fan I'm starting to lose interest in SR especially with the way Stan delivers it
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"If the Warriors are playing at the same time as Super Rugby, it’s the Warriors playing on Sky Sport 1 on TV. Super Rugby is relegated to Sky Sport 2,” Ken Laban said.
nzherald.co.nz/world/all-blac…
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@GilchristMedia @ricsalizzo It’s the same in Aust. Just give the keys to European rugby clubs and NRL
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@ricsalizzo Ric you know that would never work. The comp would have to be semi-professional because NZ Rugby can't afford to sustain 14 teams. Players would be paid peanuts so the vast majority of our talent would head overseas
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Maybe we just have two rugby competitions in NZ . Full on NPC and All Blacks . Top NPC teams play in a champions cup
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@NewsCop_media @PlanetRugby NZ did alright out of it. Aust & SA tried news teams to grow & invigorate the tournament. Japan and Arg had teams. NZ has sat tight on 5 teams and not had to change too much at all.
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@PlanetRugby I think NZ is partly to blame for this. They should have reformed their governance sooner and were probably too generous in helping out Oceanic neighbours (looking mainly at Australia). Saying that, the wolf is at their door and they need to step up. Where's the blunderbus? 🤔🙂
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Ex-All Black claims New Zealand have been 'left in the stone ages' as he calls for Super Rugby to be disbanded #Echobox=1776366123" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">planetrugby.com/news/ex-all-bl…
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Wtf is this thing that Trump’s secret service guy is holding?
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@mward1246 @wrhys_writes Not so sure he was messed around. Aust age group player , u20s World Cup for Aust, 1st Melbourne born and bred pro Rebel player. I am sure he has said he contract offers in Aust, the same time as the Scotland deal on the table. Capped by them after a handful of games in Scot
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@wrhys_writes Indeed Rhys - tho I think you know much more about his family than me!
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I mean, mostly **yawn**, but journalists really need to catch up to the fact that people migrate to different countries for numerous reasons these days
Was Cully moaning when Harry Potter, Tom Lynagh, Josh Canham, Lukhan Salakaia-Loto & Taniela Tupou decided they are Australian?
Matt Ward@mward1246
Cully @SMHsport nails it again “there must be a distinction between feeling Scottish, Irish or Welsh and actually being Scottish, Irish or Welsh, and rugby has lost its way in defining that gap. smh.com.au/sport/rugby-un…
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@brumby_fan Then he should do how many Australian born/developed players have played for other countries
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I’d love to see this list of 20.
Jim Demps@jim_demps
Pot, kettle, Wallaby. The country that literally started national team recruitment with Tian Strauss and Pat Noriega has found the moral high ground. I bet I could name 20 fully capped wallabies who only moved to Australia as adults without breaking stride.
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The #IPL has to be one of the greatest sporting phenomenons in the world at the moment
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@StevenSaidThis @joeroganhq Trump a globalist....haha!!
Thats the very people he
Is standing up against and exposing!
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Russell Crowe: Australians are lucky to have a Prime Minister "motivated by trying to help everybody."
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@Rugby_Scoop Slightly unfortunate collision given Frost steps back and gets (slightly) lower. But Frist is dlstill very upright so 16 shouldn’t be that high. That’s the way it’s been ruled for a number of years now
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@rustyrockets Sadly, we are already in World War III. We have been there for about 45 years, Russell. It’s just that we are just now joining the fight and we have a Commander in Chief and a Defense Secretary committed to winning it.
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