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<blockquote data-quote="C A Iversen" data-source="post: 189741"><p>Throw away comment. Always fallen back on by the clever people in the North who are sooo clever they never string any evidence together, lol!</p><p></p><p>We do not pick any players from any of the pacific nation's national development programs, age-grades or national sides. If any of those unions had a Super 14 club or any professional competition, we'd be the first nation with our hands up to the IRB to regulate this world-wide so England, France, Australia and ourselves don't destroy them.</p><p></p><p>The poaching from the Northern Hemisphere will be addressed with regulation in the next 4-5 years (it hasn't quite reached crisis point yet), I completely believe it'll have to be though.</p><p></p><p>As for the comments from others. How come when we have a $100million dollar deal with adidas we can't compete with clubs with a 10,000-15,000 attendance? That's blind fools logic! That money isn't annual or bi-annual. I believe the deal was for 10 years! The actual figure it's worth after taxes is about $6 million dollars a year. To maintain the All Blacks. We can't pay 5 Super 14 clubs with that! New Zealand is far from being the rich rugby nation! </p><p></p><p>The NH club of 10,000-15,000 fanbase is only shooting for about one of our players. What about all the clubs with 20,000-30,000? There's more than a few of those. There are also those in the North whose local economies are bigger than our whole countries with more people in one city.</p><p></p><p>We are talking about a multitude of ridiculously disproportionate economies going after the players from one relatively small one! The population over here is only 4 million, the ability to generate enough money to keep fighting this is not infinite. </p><p></p><p>The national sides from the north will be kicking our All Black behinds all over the place in 4-5 years and laughing at how "weak the fabled All Blacks" are and how big and heroic they are.</p><p></p><p>If you guys want to justify playing the All Blacks "C" or maybe even "D" team in 5 years to win, then you go on, you big brave tough-guy northerners!</p><p></p><p>Hand us the biggest and most realistic excuse possible! :lol:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="C A Iversen, post: 189741"] Throw away comment. Always fallen back on by the clever people in the North who are sooo clever they never string any evidence together, lol! We do not pick any players from any of the pacific nation's national development programs, age-grades or national sides. If any of those unions had a Super 14 club or any professional competition, we'd be the first nation with our hands up to the IRB to regulate this world-wide so England, France, Australia and ourselves don't destroy them. The poaching from the Northern Hemisphere will be addressed with regulation in the next 4-5 years (it hasn't quite reached crisis point yet), I completely believe it'll have to be though. As for the comments from others. How come when we have a $100million dollar deal with adidas we can't compete with clubs with a 10,000-15,000 attendance? That's blind fools logic! That money isn't annual or bi-annual. I believe the deal was for 10 years! The actual figure it's worth after taxes is about $6 million dollars a year. To maintain the All Blacks. We can't pay 5 Super 14 clubs with that! New Zealand is far from being the rich rugby nation! The NH club of 10,000-15,000 fanbase is only shooting for about one of our players. What about all the clubs with 20,000-30,000? There's more than a few of those. There are also those in the North whose local economies are bigger than our whole countries with more people in one city. We are talking about a multitude of ridiculously disproportionate economies going after the players from one relatively small one! The population over here is only 4 million, the ability to generate enough money to keep fighting this is not infinite. The national sides from the north will be kicking our All Black behinds all over the place in 4-5 years and laughing at how "weak the fabled All Blacks" are and how big and heroic they are. If you guys want to justify playing the All Blacks "C" or maybe even "D" team in 5 years to win, then you go on, you big brave tough-guy northerners! Hand us the biggest and most realistic excuse possible! :lol: [/QUOTE]
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