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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 254362"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Frntline @ Mar 29 2009, 12:22 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=387692" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p>the NA4 is a terrible tournament if you can even call it one. All it is the US playing Canada seeing who's the best and not making the player any better cause its only 4 games it just like a stupid select side if anything the money should go to making/marketing a good USA/Canada Pro/Semi-Pro League (id. the Super Leagues we both have).</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Totally agree with you there except the USA super league is way better run IMO then RCSL.... which by the way is dead now... The problem with Canadian Rugby is the powers that be have continually tried to alienate the clubs in this country and it has weakened the game considerably. The RCSL in Canada was poorly run from the start being that all the clubs were regional select sides that took the best players away from the club game and I gthink it did a lot of damage to rugby in Canada.</p><p></p><p>The NA4 was created as a tournament to give USA and Canada's top players a High Performance platform the prob was like all things done by rugby Canada is they included zero input from the clubs. Our biggest problem with this country is they have tried to implement policies used in the United Kingdom and Europe not taking into consideration the fact that the realities of the game in North America are totally different to those of Europe... really shortsighted by the IRB... Canada's HPD director Geraint John has continually talked about HPD and brought up the Celtic model which is totally stupid as he doesn't take into consideration the fact that canada is an immense country geographically and the economics just don't work here for rugby like they do in Europe.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 254362"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Frntline @ Mar 29 2009, 12:22 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=387692']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> the NA4 is a terrible tournament if you can even call it one. All it is the US playing Canada seeing who's the best and not making the player any better cause its only 4 games it just like a stupid select side if anything the money should go to making/marketing a good USA/Canada Pro/Semi-Pro League (id. the Super Leagues we both have). [/b][/quote] Totally agree with you there except the USA super league is way better run IMO then RCSL.... which by the way is dead now... The problem with Canadian Rugby is the powers that be have continually tried to alienate the clubs in this country and it has weakened the game considerably. The RCSL in Canada was poorly run from the start being that all the clubs were regional select sides that took the best players away from the club game and I gthink it did a lot of damage to rugby in Canada. The NA4 was created as a tournament to give USA and Canada's top players a High Performance platform the prob was like all things done by rugby Canada is they included zero input from the clubs. Our biggest problem with this country is they have tried to implement policies used in the United Kingdom and Europe not taking into consideration the fact that the realities of the game in North America are totally different to those of Europe... really shortsighted by the IRB... Canada's HPD director Geraint John has continually talked about HPD and brought up the Celtic model which is totally stupid as he doesn't take into consideration the fact that canada is an immense country geographically and the economics just don't work here for rugby like they do in Europe. [/QUOTE]
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