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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: 870835" data-attributes="member: 39697"><p>Who said anything about seniors? It is a thread about U20 so leave that aside.</p><p></p><p>About Italy, they clearly are better than when joined, Romania used to beat them last time in 2004 and nowdays they are too good. It is their system and Union that is</p><p></p><p>Evidence about getting better with better exposure can be found watching Argentina after they joined The Championship, Japan's 2015 WC after being exposed constantly to T1 matches and T1 coaching, all Pacific sides who regularly play T1 and even if they lack cohesion they are at a certain level because they are accustomed with that level.</p><p></p><p>Georgia U20 is on par with big nations and is growing constantly for some years, Romania's SL is the only fully professional one from T2 (except Japan) and didn't shrink but grew constantly even if not in a spectacular way. Salaries are decent and many players prefer to stay home than head to Federale 1 or Elite, English second tier or even Pro D2. </p><p></p><p>Your only argument is Italy and there are many other things to be considered such as the dire way FIR dealt with local championship and the lack of foresight with changing national team generations. With all that, they beat SA this year, isn't it? Or that doesn't count ?</p><p></p><p>So there are plenty of signs local rugby is growing in Georgia and Romania therefore even a U20 8N (which won't happen) would be fine</p><p></p><p>Believe me, domestic game resisted pretty well without any International match, probably you are also not aware that Romania featured in all RWCs since 1987 and <strong>we didn't played Tier 1 opposition since 2006 (except RWCs)</strong>. So you're argument with looking too much for international T1 games is based on ignorance and nothing else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amz, post: 870835, member: 39697"] Who said anything about seniors? It is a thread about U20 so leave that aside. About Italy, they clearly are better than when joined, Romania used to beat them last time in 2004 and nowdays they are too good. It is their system and Union that is Evidence about getting better with better exposure can be found watching Argentina after they joined The Championship, Japan's 2015 WC after being exposed constantly to T1 matches and T1 coaching, all Pacific sides who regularly play T1 and even if they lack cohesion they are at a certain level because they are accustomed with that level. Georgia U20 is on par with big nations and is growing constantly for some years, Romania's SL is the only fully professional one from T2 (except Japan) and didn't shrink but grew constantly even if not in a spectacular way. Salaries are decent and many players prefer to stay home than head to Federale 1 or Elite, English second tier or even Pro D2. Your only argument is Italy and there are many other things to be considered such as the dire way FIR dealt with local championship and the lack of foresight with changing national team generations. With all that, they beat SA this year, isn't it? Or that doesn't count ? So there are plenty of signs local rugby is growing in Georgia and Romania therefore even a U20 8N (which won't happen) would be fine Believe me, domestic game resisted pretty well without any International match, probably you are also not aware that Romania featured in all RWCs since 1987 and [B]we didn't played Tier 1 opposition since 2006 (except RWCs)[/B]. So you're argument with looking too much for international T1 games is based on ignorance and nothing else. [/QUOTE]
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