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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Georgia and Romania to participate in an 6N plus 2 tournament.
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<blockquote data-quote="amz" data-source="post: 870808" data-attributes="member: 39697"><p>You are not probably aware that Romania have a fully professional league since 2011 if I remember well and last year a 7th team was added and there are prospects to add an 8th team so certainly the game is growing domestically. </p><p></p><p>Georgia also is doing efforts to rely on more sources of players than those who go to France and recently organized an U20 WC where they did pretty well with most players from local clubs.</p><p></p><p>It is true that both new teams can get a heavy beating at some point but as I understand it is a development competition and I don't see how you do expect minnows to grow if not exposed to better competition. And btw, Romania U19 beat Scotland U19 20-10 in 2014 so I don't think we'll see margins bigger than what we see in 6N U20.</p><p></p><p>Finally, I don't get your argument with calendar at U20 level, they're not fully professional and surely academy sides can cope without one two players who are called up to national U20 team.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amz, post: 870808, member: 39697"] You are not probably aware that Romania have a fully professional league since 2011 if I remember well and last year a 7th team was added and there are prospects to add an 8th team so certainly the game is growing domestically. Georgia also is doing efforts to rely on more sources of players than those who go to France and recently organized an U20 WC where they did pretty well with most players from local clubs. It is true that both new teams can get a heavy beating at some point but as I understand it is a development competition and I don't see how you do expect minnows to grow if not exposed to better competition. And btw, Romania U19 beat Scotland U19 20-10 in 2014 so I don't think we'll see margins bigger than what we see in 6N U20. Finally, I don't get your argument with calendar at U20 level, they're not fully professional and surely academy sides can cope without one two players who are called up to national U20 team. [/QUOTE]
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