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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 586770" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>we'll just have to see how damaging this really is to France. In a few years time. Of course because of the calendar, our guys play way more games, train for like 2 hrs before the 6N each year when the others all get a good week or two - but I dunno about int'l players overshadowing the French ones. Sure, a bit, that's just a de facto consequence. But I mean to the point of it being so problematic everybody (even the non-french) talks about it regularly ?...</p><p>Our guys still develop, and they have more competition and have to fight much more for that starting spot. Plus the influence of other guys, our guys can add some of that to their games...</p><p></p><p>Just a light scale example: Picamoles wouldn't be a better no.8 if the league was entirely French, or Fofana at center - in fact for his case having a couple of Fijian/NZ wingers instills a great passing game into him, and he's used to running with athletic attackers, which necessarily ups his game. He may not get that kind of running from the French wingers in capped games, but surely it makes him a center who's been with 'the best' of em.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 586770, member: 57076"] we'll just have to see how damaging this really is to France. In a few years time. Of course because of the calendar, our guys play way more games, train for like 2 hrs before the 6N each year when the others all get a good week or two - but I dunno about int'l players overshadowing the French ones. Sure, a bit, that's just a de facto consequence. But I mean to the point of it being so problematic everybody (even the non-french) talks about it regularly ?... Our guys still develop, and they have more competition and have to fight much more for that starting spot. Plus the influence of other guys, our guys can add some of that to their games... Just a light scale example: Picamoles wouldn't be a better no.8 if the league was entirely French, or Fofana at center - in fact for his case having a couple of Fijian/NZ wingers instills a great passing game into him, and he's used to running with athletic attackers, which necessarily ups his game. He may not get that kind of running from the French wingers in capped games, but surely it makes him a center who's been with 'the best' of em. [/QUOTE]
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