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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 722241" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>New Zealand rugby aren't going to change their position. Funny you have a lot of posters who seem to have very little understanding of how domestic rugby is run in the SH, becoming spurious experts on what they have to do. Clearly the current selection policy for the All Blacks isn't hindering them too greatly.</p><p></p><p>The reality is that even if we lose players like Piatau, he's not at all irreplaceable. We have so many tiers of rugby that when one drops another will come in, however that system would seriously suffer if we start selecting players from overseas. The decision not to select overseas based players from England is simply one of the more clever decisions they have made in a long time. So England can't select Armitage - how many countless other English players are now playing for English teams on the back of that policy? Is selecting one player for an international team worth losing 20 to domestic rugby? No, it's idiotic.</p><p></p><p>The reality is that Australia was always negotiating from weakness, and they obviously predicted that the draw of playing for a Australian Super Rugby side and the Wallabies wasn't enough to retain players. Fair enough, it's a poorly run Union truth be told. However the All Blacks can take those occasional losses on the chin, we have more than enough depth to survive without players leaving. Our sabbaticals already allow for a certain amount of give-way for our best players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 722241, member: 38640"] New Zealand rugby aren't going to change their position. Funny you have a lot of posters who seem to have very little understanding of how domestic rugby is run in the SH, becoming spurious experts on what they have to do. Clearly the current selection policy for the All Blacks isn't hindering them too greatly. The reality is that even if we lose players like Piatau, he's not at all irreplaceable. We have so many tiers of rugby that when one drops another will come in, however that system would seriously suffer if we start selecting players from overseas. The decision not to select overseas based players from England is simply one of the more clever decisions they have made in a long time. So England can't select Armitage - how many countless other English players are now playing for English teams on the back of that policy? Is selecting one player for an international team worth losing 20 to domestic rugby? No, it's idiotic. The reality is that Australia was always negotiating from weakness, and they obviously predicted that the draw of playing for a Australian Super Rugby side and the Wallabies wasn't enough to retain players. Fair enough, it's a poorly run Union truth be told. However the All Blacks can take those occasional losses on the chin, we have more than enough depth to survive without players leaving. Our sabbaticals already allow for a certain amount of give-way for our best players. [/QUOTE]
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