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June International Test: South Africa vs. Ireland [1st Test] (11/06/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="Duck a l&#039;Orange" data-source="post: 802629" data-attributes="member: 72315"><p>Now I'm quite ignorant of the situation in South Africa, but the approach of the government to bringing diversity to rugby is so shortsighted.</p><p></p><p>The government itself needs to be funding development schemes and grassroots clubs in areas where this hasn't happened before. Is rugby on the curriculum in schools everywhere? Or only some? Get everyone to play rugby, have the structure in place to develop new players across the country, then wait fifteen years.</p><p></p><p>That way you tap a whole new pool of talent, rather than cramp the use of the existing one. Shoehorning people of different ethnicities into the team is not the same as lasting change. That's like painting over the cracks.</p><p></p><p>The only thing the quota system is doing lastingly and effectively, is reducing the quality of rugby from one of the best teams in the world- they'll end up with no-one playing rugby at all.</p><p></p><p>Which they might like, as that would be 100% racially diverse and unbiased...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Duck a l'Orange, post: 802629, member: 72315"] Now I'm quite ignorant of the situation in South Africa, but the approach of the government to bringing diversity to rugby is so shortsighted. The government itself needs to be funding development schemes and grassroots clubs in areas where this hasn't happened before. Is rugby on the curriculum in schools everywhere? Or only some? Get everyone to play rugby, have the structure in place to develop new players across the country, then wait fifteen years. That way you tap a whole new pool of talent, rather than cramp the use of the existing one. Shoehorning people of different ethnicities into the team is not the same as lasting change. That's like painting over the cracks. The only thing the quota system is doing lastingly and effectively, is reducing the quality of rugby from one of the best teams in the world- they'll end up with no-one playing rugby at all. Which they might like, as that would be 100% racially diverse and unbiased... [/QUOTE]
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