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<blockquote data-quote="Melhor Time" data-source="post: 430254" data-attributes="member: 20116"><p><strong>Psychic Duck</strong></p><p></p><p>In terms of Georgia, politics and ties are closer to France than Russia. Lelos coaches encourage players to play in France and happen to have lies which makes the process simple. I´ll talk more about this on my Georgia preview when I put it up. My thoughts on rugby within Georgia and what to do is that Tblissi needs to have a professional team compete in either the Romanian or Russian league. Domestic rugby has a lot to do but the fan base is very strong and they need local teams to get behind. The Russian league is so successful and is going to just get bigger. Teams from abroad want in. Lithuania is close, word has it. Georgia must act and make it happen. </p><p></p><p>The landscape of European rugby will be so different in 30 years to what it is today. I don´t know if the Six Nations will still exist and to be honest I think it´d be good to be disbanded, same with the Four Nations. There should be a European Cup and an Oceania Cup like soccer does with Euro, etc. Today it sounds like a dumb idea but the same will not be able to be said in the future as there are simply going to be much more powers around. Georgia today are where Italy and Canada were in the 1990´s. Russia and Romania have professional leagues and with rugby beconming so much bigger the amount of money in the sport will just go up. Argentina and the USA will be professional shortly, both probably before Rugby World Cup 2015. Considering Argentina had 34 players in the Top 14 last season and these guys would likely mostly be in Argentina then French sides will need to find the players elsewhere..... its going to create more professional players from more places and ultimately better Rugby World Cups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Melhor Time, post: 430254, member: 20116"] [B]Psychic Duck[/B] In terms of Georgia, politics and ties are closer to France than Russia. Lelos coaches encourage players to play in France and happen to have lies which makes the process simple. I´ll talk more about this on my Georgia preview when I put it up. My thoughts on rugby within Georgia and what to do is that Tblissi needs to have a professional team compete in either the Romanian or Russian league. Domestic rugby has a lot to do but the fan base is very strong and they need local teams to get behind. The Russian league is so successful and is going to just get bigger. Teams from abroad want in. Lithuania is close, word has it. Georgia must act and make it happen. The landscape of European rugby will be so different in 30 years to what it is today. I don´t know if the Six Nations will still exist and to be honest I think it´d be good to be disbanded, same with the Four Nations. There should be a European Cup and an Oceania Cup like soccer does with Euro, etc. Today it sounds like a dumb idea but the same will not be able to be said in the future as there are simply going to be much more powers around. Georgia today are where Italy and Canada were in the 1990´s. Russia and Romania have professional leagues and with rugby beconming so much bigger the amount of money in the sport will just go up. Argentina and the USA will be professional shortly, both probably before Rugby World Cup 2015. Considering Argentina had 34 players in the Top 14 last season and these guys would likely mostly be in Argentina then French sides will need to find the players elsewhere..... its going to create more professional players from more places and ultimately better Rugby World Cups. [/QUOTE]
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