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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2023 Six Nations] Scotland vs Wales - 11 February 2023
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<blockquote data-quote="Amiga500" data-source="post: 1120139" data-attributes="member: 56767"><p>Agreed.</p><p></p><p>That talent would have been largely developed in the 2000-2010 era - the birth of professionalism across the sport. So when everyone was kinda groping around finding the right approach Wales got lucky (in terms of natural talent finding a way to develop to near its potential).</p><p></p><p>Now, everywhere else has moved on. That's not to say Wales' problems are unique. Dublin is now a conveyor belt of talent generation of a scale that that all the other provinces on Ireland are struggling with. </p><p></p><p>Scotland seem to have sorted their sh_t out, and managed to find a way to develop players outside of the traditional border heartlands.</p><p></p><p>England are still infighting away of course and the RFU as useless as ever - see Wasps and Woscester - but they have the raw numbers coming through each year for it to be impossible not to have a few gems.</p><p></p><p>France are probably gonna win the world cup later this year.</p><p></p><p>Italy are making headway in the URC. Expect the national side to uptick as a result.</p><p></p><p>Wales? What's changed? WRU fighting with the regions again in 2023... or was that 2018? Oh, no, it was actually 2013.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amiga500, post: 1120139, member: 56767"] Agreed. That talent would have been largely developed in the 2000-2010 era - the birth of professionalism across the sport. So when everyone was kinda groping around finding the right approach Wales got lucky (in terms of natural talent finding a way to develop to near its potential). Now, everywhere else has moved on. That's not to say Wales' problems are unique. Dublin is now a conveyor belt of talent generation of a scale that that all the other provinces on Ireland are struggling with. Scotland seem to have sorted their sh_t out, and managed to find a way to develop players outside of the traditional border heartlands. England are still infighting away of course and the RFU as useless as ever - see Wasps and Woscester - but they have the raw numbers coming through each year for it to be impossible not to have a few gems. France are probably gonna win the world cup later this year. Italy are making headway in the URC. Expect the national side to uptick as a result. Wales? What's changed? WRU fighting with the regions again in 2023... or was that 2018? Oh, no, it was actually 2013. [/QUOTE]
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