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<blockquote data-quote="C A Iversen" data-source="post: 297392"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (feicarsinn @ Jan 9 2010, 01:41 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=430935" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>As I said in my inital post, I based my rankings <strong>partly</strong> on improvement from teams. Argentina are significantly more of a world force than they were going into the year 2000. England are not. Nothing against England or any other team. New Zealand have managed to stay number one ranked in world rugby for more of the decade than any other team and this in the 2nd decade of professionalism. Thats a huge achievement given professionalism involves money and money is short on supply for that team. Other teams should've produced more results against them by now. South Africa have been steadily building as possibly <strong>the</strong> international team of the next decade, so certainly deserve their spot on my rankings. Ireland have also produced much more in the 00's than the 90's.</p><p> </p><p> World cups are big, but they are not everything. they are a tournament, not an ongoing critical analysis.</p><p> </p><p> These are just my rankings, perhaps stop worrying so much about my opinion and post your own maybe?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="C A Iversen, post: 297392"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (feicarsinn @ Jan 9 2010, 01:41 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=430935']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> As I said in my inital post, I based my rankings [b]partly[/b] on improvement from teams. Argentina are significantly more of a world force than they were going into the year 2000. England are not. Nothing against England or any other team. New Zealand have managed to stay number one ranked in world rugby for more of the decade than any other team and this in the 2nd decade of professionalism. Thats a huge achievement given professionalism involves money and money is short on supply for that team. Other teams should've produced more results against them by now. South Africa have been steadily building as possibly [b]the[/b] international team of the next decade, so certainly deserve their spot on my rankings. Ireland have also produced much more in the 00's than the 90's. World cups are big, but they are not everything. they are a tournament, not an ongoing critical analysis. These are just my rankings, perhaps stop worrying so much about my opinion and post your own maybe? [/QUOTE]
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