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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2018 6 Nations] Round 5 : England v Ireland (17/03/2018)
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<blockquote data-quote="Not Mike Brown&#039;s Sock" data-source="post: 896540" data-attributes="member: 72041"><p>Obviously, I'm not saying we should copy them, but we already play significantly less games in a season than they do and it does all just come down to management at the end of the day. Maybe we should stop trying to find structural excuses for why we are not the all blacks and just focus on playing our own game to the best of our ability. Irish rugby is doing well at the moment, but good form comes and goes. There is no point the RFU throwing a tantrum because we aren't number 1 and destroying over 150 years of history in some cases</p><p></p><p>*just saw your edit* I can't see a way that a league which is already so in debt can lose it's status as the premier league in it's country and somehow maintain the same level of viewership and/or investment. If it looses that, then the clubs collapse. Just look at what happend to London Welsh after dropping one teir</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Obviously, and there is a **** ton of debt in the Prem, but, and this may just be me personally, I would take Quins success over a long period before a six nations ***le any day. That might be the difference. If thats not your attitude towards Tigers then fair enough, but one of the things I have always loved about rugby is the grassroots element of it and I feel like the franchise or reigional system loses that. Quins and Bath have both hit 150 years recently and it just isnt fair to destory that because England are in a rut</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Not Mike Brown's Sock, post: 896540, member: 72041"] Obviously, I'm not saying we should copy them, but we already play significantly less games in a season than they do and it does all just come down to management at the end of the day. Maybe we should stop trying to find structural excuses for why we are not the all blacks and just focus on playing our own game to the best of our ability. Irish rugby is doing well at the moment, but good form comes and goes. There is no point the RFU throwing a tantrum because we aren't number 1 and destroying over 150 years of history in some cases *just saw your edit* I can't see a way that a league which is already so in debt can lose it's status as the premier league in it's country and somehow maintain the same level of viewership and/or investment. If it looses that, then the clubs collapse. Just look at what happend to London Welsh after dropping one teir Obviously, and there is a **** ton of debt in the Prem, but, and this may just be me personally, I would take Quins success over a long period before a six nations ***le any day. That might be the difference. If thats not your attitude towards Tigers then fair enough, but one of the things I have always loved about rugby is the grassroots element of it and I feel like the franchise or reigional system loses that. Quins and Bath have both hit 150 years recently and it just isnt fair to destory that because England are in a rut [/QUOTE]
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