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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2019 Six Nations] England vs Italy (09/03/2019)
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<blockquote data-quote="spartan32" data-source="post: 935930" data-attributes="member: 72322"><p>Is there any team in international rugby at top flight that hasn't got at least one imported player? It's just the way the game is these days. We are the biggest rugby nation in the world and we still can't resist the temptation of having some ringers. Give it a few more years and countries will all be represented by teams that look more like clubs than countries. Wonder if that really matters? Although I wonder what world rugby would look like if you could only field players who were actually</p><p>Born in that country? Could really help the likes of Tonga, Fiji, etc who get poached all the time. </p><p></p><p>I do also wonder how dedicated some players are to their adopted countries. Will Brad Shields give as much to England as he would to NZ. Will Manu chose Country over Cash? I guess we will never know. Although I don't blame Italy for grabbing players from all over, otherwise they'd be in all sorts of strife.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spartan32, post: 935930, member: 72322"] Is there any team in international rugby at top flight that hasn’t got at least one imported player? It’s just the way the game is these days. We are the biggest rugby nation in the world and we still can’t resist the temptation of having some ringers. Give it a few more years and countries will all be represented by teams that look more like clubs than countries. Wonder if that really matters? Although I wonder what world rugby would look like if you could only field players who were actually Born in that country? Could really help the likes of Tonga, Fiji, etc who get poached all the time. I do also wonder how dedicated some players are to their adopted countries. Will Brad Shields give as much to England as he would to NZ. Will Manu chose Country over Cash? I guess we will never know. Although I don’t blame Italy for grabbing players from all over, otherwise they’d be in all sorts of strife. [/QUOTE]
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