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<blockquote data-quote="Gay-Guy" data-source="post: 237957"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Boggle @ Nov 25 2008, 08:41 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=362819" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p>Haha yeah S.A were the team to beat for so long...well actually there were three teams that had world respect....Argentina, Brazil, and (West) Germany....whoops wrong sport.....NZ, S.A, WAL (I put them in alphabetical order). Unfortunately Wales lost the plot at the end of the 70's and the NEED to get their crap together and win a RWC damnit for the good rugby around the world. NZ had a slight edge the first 20 years 1905-1924 and the last 20 but South Africa had the upper hand in the decades in between.</p><p></p><p>Anyway I think the history of rugby around the world has more mystique than any other sport. An incredible thing considering it was an amateur sport for so long. Perhaps the 100 years it stayed as an amateur sport created the foundation of stability before the exposure to the ravages of money based professionalism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gay-Guy, post: 237957"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Boggle @ Nov 25 2008, 08:41 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=362819']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Haha yeah S.A were the team to beat for so long...well actually there were three teams that had world respect....Argentina, Brazil, and (West) Germany....whoops wrong sport.....NZ, S.A, WAL (I put them in alphabetical order). Unfortunately Wales lost the plot at the end of the 70's and the NEED to get their crap together and win a RWC damnit for the good rugby around the world. NZ had a slight edge the first 20 years 1905-1924 and the last 20 but South Africa had the upper hand in the decades in between. Anyway I think the history of rugby around the world has more mystique than any other sport. An incredible thing considering it was an amateur sport for so long. Perhaps the 100 years it stayed as an amateur sport created the foundation of stability before the exposure to the ravages of money based professionalism. [/QUOTE]
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