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On the plus side, there won't be any more pointless tours buggering things up for the clubs. While you're at it, scrap the Autumn internationals.
Summer tours have always been milking exercises designed to line the bigwigs coffers, harking back to the amateur days when that was the only way to make money.. Real rugby is played at club/regional level and that's where the real passion is.
I for one won't miss them (or autumn internationals should they suffer the same fate).
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You're just tired of getting whooped on your our backyard
It's funny that NH was harping about ELVs because it so called took away rugby's traditional strengths. Advocating the end of SH vs NH tours is taking away a very traditional strength of Test rugby, instead the NH wants the new up and coming stronghold called club rugby.
We all got double standards.
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Not at all mate. What I am tired of though is seeing players needlessly flogged to death at the end of a hard, attritional season.
Regards the ELVs... I'm in favour of many (in fact probably most) of them.
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As far as I know the SH end of year tour is near the beginning of the NH season.
More importantly, do you have an opinion about the possible end of the traditional SH vs NH tours? We all know how guys like to keep things "traditional" [/b][/quote]
There is no "tradition" about these tours, they're only a regular fixture of the past decade or so. And careful of that chip on your shoulder, it may just split you in half.
Still, it'll be interesting to see what you're like when SA dump SANZAR and jump into bet with the RFU and FFR.
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SH teams have been touring Europe on regular /occasional basis for about 100 years now, when the pro era began this tradition grew stronger. But now that they are interfering with their rich clubs, some Unions have opted to change nature of the tours. I just find it funny how the NH was taking the moral high ground with the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" concerning the ELVs, but now that they broke the tradition of the SH tours because it suits them, they reckon it's ok. That's why I said "We all got double standards". Ireland, Wales and Scotland are exceptions.