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France vs All Blacks (21/11/21) 09.00am NZDT @ Stade de France, Paris
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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1063856" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>there's not much reason to expect the all blacks to continue their dominance. This current generation of players hasn't grown with a culture of people who care about rugby, they haven't played rugby in the schoolyard or the backyard like they used to. We no longer have a style starkly different from the northern hemisphere. We don't have the same money in the system as france and england . The northern hemisphere has been improving as Southern Hemisphere coaches and players have gone north over the last twenty years, combining Southern Hemisphere skills and styles with that of the northern hemisphere, plus money fueled professionalism. The player base in NZ has gone down, although our pacific population has increased significantly which I'm sure will keep us competitive at the top level for some time to come. Competitive doesn't mean dominant though.</p><p></p><p>Our dominance over the past twenty years was due to us being most well equipped for professional rugby, having already had a number of coaches with innovative and professional approaches in the amateur days, and players who had grown up in a rugby dominant culture which disappeared with the advent of professionalism meaning the majority of people stopped watching rugby because they had to pay for it, and with the internet age there became a greater variety of ways people could feel part of a community. In all tier one nations professional rugby has been around for long enough now that the top players, while in school, would have been working on their skill sets with the idea that they could play rugby professionally. So the skill gap is no longer there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1063856, member: 65365"] there’s not much reason to expect the all blacks to continue their dominance. This current generation of players hasn’t grown with a culture of people who care about rugby, they haven’t played rugby in the schoolyard or the backyard like they used to. We no longer have a style starkly different from the northern hemisphere. We don’t have the same money in the system as france and england . The northern hemisphere has been improving as Southern Hemisphere coaches and players have gone north over the last twenty years, combining Southern Hemisphere skills and styles with that of the northern hemisphere, plus money fueled professionalism. The player base in NZ has gone down, although our pacific population has increased significantly which I’m sure will keep us competitive at the top level for some time to come. Competitive doesn’t mean dominant though. Our dominance over the past twenty years was due to us being most well equipped for professional rugby, having already had a number of coaches with innovative and professional approaches in the amateur days, and players who had grown up in a rugby dominant culture which disappeared with the advent of professionalism meaning the majority of people stopped watching rugby because they had to pay for it, and with the internet age there became a greater variety of ways people could feel part of a community. In all tier one nations professional rugby has been around for long enough now that the top players, while in school, would have been working on their skill sets with the idea that they could play rugby professionally. So the skill gap is no longer there. [/QUOTE]
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