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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 1016227" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>True, And I get that.</p><p></p><p>Plus, direct flights from Paris, London, Rome and other major european airports mostly only fly to Johannesburg or Cape Town, So travelling to Durban might be an additional flight of about an hour.</p><p></p><p>I understand that the burden will be on the top French and English teams and the issue of burnout and player welfare. The issue is though, how our inclusion would mitigate this factor? more time to travel to and from SA inbetween games? like playing on Friday or Thursday nights, and then travel back and then only play on a Sunday or Monday? Changing of the amount of matches domestically to accomodate for travel?</p><p></p><p>There are many way to go about in mitigating the travel factor, I guess the main thing would be how flexible and accomodating the unions will be to listen to proposals and how to implement them.</p><p></p><p>If anything else, the additional money, could lead to bigger squads, with lifting the amount of foreign players allowed to play in a team, that way you can have a group playing in SA, while the rest stays in France/England and prepare for the next game at home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 1016227, member: 40658"] True, And I get that. Plus, direct flights from Paris, London, Rome and other major european airports mostly only fly to Johannesburg or Cape Town, So travelling to Durban might be an additional flight of about an hour. I understand that the burden will be on the top French and English teams and the issue of burnout and player welfare. The issue is though, how our inclusion would mitigate this factor? more time to travel to and from SA inbetween games? like playing on Friday or Thursday nights, and then travel back and then only play on a Sunday or Monday? Changing of the amount of matches domestically to accomodate for travel? There are many way to go about in mitigating the travel factor, I guess the main thing would be how flexible and accomodating the unions will be to listen to proposals and how to implement them. If anything else, the additional money, could lead to bigger squads, with lifting the amount of foreign players allowed to play in a team, that way you can have a group playing in SA, while the rest stays in France/England and prepare for the next game at home. [/QUOTE]
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