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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 923274" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>I don't usually like three red kings but they're dead right here. Including McGrath, Murphy or even Marmion in figures like these illigitimises any point he's trying to make, the number becomes meaningless and if his numbers are wrong even by a small amount he deserves to be called out, he's the vice-chairman of world rugby, go tell an intern to spend a few days getting water tight results rather than grabbing it off of one guy's youtube video.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"% of players who qualified through three year eligibility", "% of players who qualified through a parent or grandparent", "% of players who played for a country having never lived there before the age of 18". These, or a combination of the three are all pretty objective, are a better indicator of whoever is abusing whatever "bad rule" he doesn't like and apart from the last one they're all verifiable.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>How many English/Irish/Italian/Scottish/Japanese emigrate to Fiji/Tong/Samoa? You can't use that point before you say this:</p><p></p><p></p><p>That's also a reference that only morons use anymore, to be honest its brought up by Kiwis more than anyone else.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So extend the eligibility period? Wait, he's already done that. Abandon the granny rule? Then you'd have players who have the right to be citizens of certain countries not being allowed to play rugby for them, that's a legal case WR won't win. Allow Tier 1 players to switch to tier 2 nations? The NZRU are pushing that one. Introduce a World League that will stop the world's top 10 nations (Could be 8, I don't know) from playing Tier 2 nations in the Autumn? Yeah do that one Agustin...</p><p></p><p>Yeah... His agenda is "Make Argentina look good in any way possible", not much more to it, he chases the impossible like getting Georgia into a 6n to disguise it but it's a thin veil. I'm all for progressive high ups in WR but lets not pretend the one from a T1 nation with a chip on his shoulder is what Tonga, Samoa and Fiji need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 923274, member: 45598"] I don't usually like three red kings but they're dead right here. Including McGrath, Murphy or even Marmion in figures like these illigitimises any point he's trying to make, the number becomes meaningless and if his numbers are wrong even by a small amount he deserves to be called out, he's the vice-chairman of world rugby, go tell an intern to spend a few days getting water tight results rather than grabbing it off of one guy's youtube video. "% of players who qualified through three year eligibility", "% of players who qualified through a parent or grandparent", "% of players who played for a country having never lived there before the age of 18". These, or a combination of the three are all pretty objective, are a better indicator of whoever is abusing whatever "bad rule" he doesn't like and apart from the last one they're all verifiable. How many English/Irish/Italian/Scottish/Japanese emigrate to Fiji/Tong/Samoa? You can't use that point before you say this: That's also a reference that only morons use anymore, to be honest its brought up by Kiwis more than anyone else. So extend the eligibility period? Wait, he's already done that. Abandon the granny rule? Then you'd have players who have the right to be citizens of certain countries not being allowed to play rugby for them, that's a legal case WR won't win. Allow Tier 1 players to switch to tier 2 nations? The NZRU are pushing that one. Introduce a World League that will stop the world's top 10 nations (Could be 8, I don't know) from playing Tier 2 nations in the Autumn? Yeah do that one Agustin... Yeah... His agenda is "Make Argentina look good in any way possible", not much more to it, he chases the impossible like getting Georgia into a 6n to disguise it but it's a thin veil. I'm all for progressive high ups in WR but lets not pretend the one from a T1 nation with a chip on his shoulder is what Tonga, Samoa and Fiji need. [/QUOTE]
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