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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="ratsapprentice" data-source="post: 896542" data-attributes="member: 67273"><p>Why are you using them as a benchmark though? It's a different type of sport entirely...</p><p></p><p>You would agree that, for example, American Football is a much closer match than Soccer?</p><p>NFL teams play 16 games per regular-season and have between 7 and 5 months off/pre-season.</p><p>That's not also taking into account the significantly reduced volume of in play time per game. (although the impacts are, on the whole, greater)</p><p></p><p>That's literally half the number of games, and double the time off that an English international rugby player has every year. That's a much, much more reasonable period in which to get into good condition for the season, and to maintain it over too.</p><p></p><p>Comparing our sport to Soccer is <em>unbelievably</em> dumb at best, and wilfully ignorant at worst.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ratsapprentice, post: 896542, member: 67273"] Why are you using them as a benchmark though? It's a different type of sport entirely... You would agree that, for example, American Football is a much closer match than Soccer? NFL teams play 16 games per regular-season and have between 7 and 5 months off/pre-season. That's not also taking into account the significantly reduced volume of in play time per game. (although the impacts are, on the whole, greater) That's literally half the number of games, and double the time off that an English international rugby player has every year. That's a much, much more reasonable period in which to get into good condition for the season, and to maintain it over too. Comparing our sport to Soccer is [I]unbelievably[/I] dumb at best, and wilfully ignorant at worst. [/QUOTE]
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