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June Internationals: Japan v Wales, First Test (08/06/13)
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF Mr Fish" data-source="post: 574407" data-attributes="member: 20892"><p>It's an interesting situation in Japan, because they have a much better rugby infrastructure than countries like Argentina, with their own highish quality domestic league. Of course it isn't filled with top players, so it doesn't allow them to improve as much as teams like Argentina when their players are going up against the best in the world in Europe. Japan's competition would be weakened by sending player overseas, but it would increase the quality of their international team. I think the ideal situation is the Japanese playing Super Rugby - which doesn't significantly interfere with the Top League. It's great seeing Tanaka and Horie involved with the Highlanders and the Rebels, respectively, and I hope that we see more of this in the future - not to mention a potential PI/Japanese team or two. </p><p></p><p>As already mentioned by Cymro, the 2019 World Cup will be awesome, especially if the Japanese really get behind it. It might even be worth paying a visit to Japan...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF Mr Fish, post: 574407, member: 20892"] It's an interesting situation in Japan, because they have a much better rugby infrastructure than countries like Argentina, with their own highish quality domestic league. Of course it isn't filled with top players, so it doesn't allow them to improve as much as teams like Argentina when their players are going up against the best in the world in Europe. Japan's competition would be weakened by sending player overseas, but it would increase the quality of their international team. I think the ideal situation is the Japanese playing Super Rugby - which doesn't significantly interfere with the Top League. It's great seeing Tanaka and Horie involved with the Highlanders and the Rebels, respectively, and I hope that we see more of this in the future - not to mention a potential PI/Japanese team or two. As already mentioned by Cymro, the 2019 World Cup will be awesome, especially if the Japanese really get behind it. It might even be worth paying a visit to Japan... [/QUOTE]
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