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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 1134196" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>Until recently they were the official bands. World Rugby have blurred the lines and made all previous tier 1 & 2 nations "High Performance teams" which is terrible in practice for the previous tier 2 sides, they don't gain any voting power and it indicates that WR don't see value in developing then further. </p><p></p><p>Portugal and Chile on the other hand are both developmental teams and in a different band / tier to the rest of the RWC teams.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I think that's fair but I also don't think anyone can hold this opinion and complain about uncompetitive RWC pools and WR not doing anything to grow the game in the same breath. (Not that you have, just expanding on why I think tiers and player switches between tiers are far from bad ideas)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 1134196, member: 45598"] Until recently they were the official bands. World Rugby have blurred the lines and made all previous tier 1 & 2 nations "High Performance teams" which is terrible in practice for the previous tier 2 sides, they don't gain any voting power and it indicates that WR don't see value in developing then further. Portugal and Chile on the other hand are both developmental teams and in a different band / tier to the rest of the RWC teams. I think that's fair but I also don't think anyone can hold this opinion and complain about uncompetitive RWC pools and WR not doing anything to grow the game in the same breath. (Not that you have, just expanding on why I think tiers and player switches between tiers are far from bad ideas) [/QUOTE]
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