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[2018 Rugby Championship] Round 2: New Zealand v Australia (25/08/2018)
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<blockquote data-quote="ncurd" data-source="post: 913936" data-attributes="member: 72205"><p>I'll place some contrast together</p><p>,</p><p>In a medium sized town in south west England which has a strong rugby union following,</p><p></p><p>Cricket - Year can barely can put an 11 together, me and one other person played it outside of school. House cup had to merge years together to get enough players. 1 lesson on the sport in the entirity of school.</p><p></p><p>Rugby Union - Year can put a team together with some competition, most in team played outside of school. No lessons on rugby due to physical nature and mix-gendered lessons. In general you could not take up rugby until the age of 12.</p><p></p><p>Football - Year was south west school champions competing on national level (NO ONE went professional although one came close). Huge competion to get on the team. As well as 8 football lessons a year well over 66% of boys played it for an hour in breaks. As well as persistently at home and in youth teams.</p><p></p><p>Don't care what you say its NZ's national sport and its ingrained from a very young age, same as the Canada Ice Hockey example. Playing numbers only tell part of the story.</p><p></p><p>NZ are superb no doubt about it but lets not try and **** about with the reason why they come from that position of strength. If it was the no.1 sport in any nation with those higher player numbers they'd probably dominate even more than the ABs do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ncurd, post: 913936, member: 72205"] I'll place some contrast together , In a medium sized town in south west England which has a strong rugby union following, Cricket - Year can barely can put an 11 together, me and one other person played it outside of school. House cup had to merge years together to get enough players. 1 lesson on the sport in the entirity of school. Rugby Union - Year can put a team together with some competition, most in team played outside of school. No lessons on rugby due to physical nature and mix-gendered lessons. In general you could not take up rugby until the age of 12. Football - Year was south west school champions competing on national level (NO ONE went professional although one came close). Huge competion to get on the team. As well as 8 football lessons a year well over 66% of boys played it for an hour in breaks. As well as persistently at home and in youth teams. Don't care what you say its NZ's national sport and its ingrained from a very young age, same as the Canada Ice Hockey example. Playing numbers only tell part of the story. NZ are superb no doubt about it but lets not try and **** about with the reason why they come from that position of strength. If it was the no.1 sport in any nation with those higher player numbers they'd probably dominate even more than the ABs do. [/QUOTE]
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