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<blockquote data-quote="Shaggy" data-source="post: 690039" data-attributes="member: 43400"><p>Back in the old (amateur) days, they use to be called "first class matches" playing for your club or province in any game would also be considered a first class match ... I'm not sure that it's still the correct terminology or not, but a player playing for there national team against NZ Maori, or for NZ Maori would not be awarded an "international cap" for the match, and the result would not effect the national team's ranking.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly enough, Ritchie McCaw just past Colin Meads for the total number of games for the All Blacks, but the number of first class games that Meads played for the All Blacks was greater than test matches, because back in his day, the All Blacks played tour matches against the clubs and provinces between the test matches.</p><p></p><p>"Friendlies" is a term that I do not like, and comes from Soccer - it refers to international matches played between World Cups ... under this definition, England V South Africa just played, would be considered "a friendly" , which clearly it was not ... I dislike the term because it belittles the importance of matches between World Cups, and implies (IMO) that they are little more than trial matches</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shaggy, post: 690039, member: 43400"] Back in the old (amateur) days, they use to be called "first class matches" playing for your club or province in any game would also be considered a first class match ... I'm not sure that it's still the correct terminology or not, but a player playing for there national team against NZ Maori, or for NZ Maori would not be awarded an "international cap" for the match, and the result would not effect the national team's ranking. Interestingly enough, Ritchie McCaw just past Colin Meads for the total number of games for the All Blacks, but the number of first class games that Meads played for the All Blacks was greater than test matches, because back in his day, the All Blacks played tour matches against the clubs and provinces between the test matches. "Friendlies" is a term that I do not like, and comes from Soccer - it refers to international matches played between World Cups ... under this definition, England V South Africa just played, would be considered "a friendly" , which clearly it was not ... I dislike the term because it belittles the importance of matches between World Cups, and implies (IMO) that they are little more than trial matches [/QUOTE]
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