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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 763602" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>I'd drop it to 15 by combining Munster and Connacht, don't think a cup competition would be required either, I think that 30 games should be the absolute maximum amount of club games for a team in a season. I do think switching the season to a summer calendar, keeping the leagues and ECC bt dropping league play offs will be equally beneficial. </p><p></p><p>Rugby in the NH, much like the South would be split into a continental club season followed by a domestic and international season by playing a B&I cup type competition during the summer internationals, summer 6nations and EOYT's. </p><p></p><p>The gap is being overstated after the world cup, of all the SH teams the only one that you could say with certainty would win next years 6nations if they replaced Italy or France is New Zealand with Australia probably being favourites at the start of the tournament. I'm also of the view that the differing calendars flatter the SH somewhat, the RWC is a perfect example, these guys have been playing rugby for months with club and country and are at the business end of their season whereas it is the very start of the NH season and we've been thrown into rugby at the highest level and the result has either been the side was undercooked (England and maybe France who knows?) or, due to not being exposed to this kind of intensity for the best part of four months, an injury list thatwould desroy any team's hopes of winning a RWC (Wales and Ireland). Consider how different it would have been had we just finished a 6nations, or some lighter variant (Two groups of three and a final maybe?), three weeks before the cup! The players would be at peak match fitness and raring to go in a world cup. </p><p></p><p>It's the same with the Summer Tours, and you see it in how weak Argentina whose players had been playing in Europe are at this time, the club season has just ended and the NH sides players are expected to be able to fly across the world having just finished a 36-44 game season, fatigue is guaranteed and why we and Argentina struggle at this time of the year, the SH guys meanwhile are on the back of their club season ready to go and claim their place with the national side. For they EOYT the SH guys have played nowhere near this amount of rugby which is why this is the most competitive International period of the year and why the form NH sides can win all of their games at this time due to home advantage.</p><p></p><p>The calendar is the biggest weakness in the highest echelons of NH rugby right now and is a **** up that really needs to be changed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 763602, member: 45598"] I'd drop it to 15 by combining Munster and Connacht, don't think a cup competition would be required either, I think that 30 games should be the absolute maximum amount of club games for a team in a season. I do think switching the season to a summer calendar, keeping the leagues and ECC bt dropping league play offs will be equally beneficial. Rugby in the NH, much like the South would be split into a continental club season followed by a domestic and international season by playing a B&I cup type competition during the summer internationals, summer 6nations and EOYT's. The gap is being overstated after the world cup, of all the SH teams the only one that you could say with certainty would win next years 6nations if they replaced Italy or France is New Zealand with Australia probably being favourites at the start of the tournament. I'm also of the view that the differing calendars flatter the SH somewhat, the RWC is a perfect example, these guys have been playing rugby for months with club and country and are at the business end of their season whereas it is the very start of the NH season and we've been thrown into rugby at the highest level and the result has either been the side was undercooked (England and maybe France who knows?) or, due to not being exposed to this kind of intensity for the best part of four months, an injury list thatwould desroy any team's hopes of winning a RWC (Wales and Ireland). Consider how different it would have been had we just finished a 6nations, or some lighter variant (Two groups of three and a final maybe?), three weeks before the cup! The players would be at peak match fitness and raring to go in a world cup. It's the same with the Summer Tours, and you see it in how weak Argentina whose players had been playing in Europe are at this time, the club season has just ended and the NH sides players are expected to be able to fly across the world having just finished a 36-44 game season, fatigue is guaranteed and why we and Argentina struggle at this time of the year, the SH guys meanwhile are on the back of their club season ready to go and claim their place with the national side. For they EOYT the SH guys have played nowhere near this amount of rugby which is why this is the most competitive International period of the year and why the form NH sides can win all of their games at this time due to home advantage. The calendar is the biggest weakness in the highest echelons of NH rugby right now and is a **** up that really needs to be changed. [/QUOTE]
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