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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 632097" data-attributes="member: 12699"><p>You guys should all be politicians, your great at talking in circles and not actually arguing any of the facts presented. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The clubs pay the players wages and then are expected to release players without any compensation to play in lengthy tournaments with a high risk of injury and during their pre-season. You would be upset as well if you had invested substantial sums of money in something/someone and not only do you get no use out of it but you let someone else use and abuse it for free. It's the equivalent of me going out and buying a Ferrari with my money, then letting you drive it and smash the **** out of it for free without me ever getting a chance to use it. </p><p></p><p>As I stated earlier, a <span style="font-size: 15px">balance needs to be struck between international and club rugby. The IRB needs to look at unifying the international schedule and they also need to look at providing clubs with proper compensation in order to secure release of star players. </span> </p><p></p><p>My proposal would be to have three windows for international rugby:</p><p></p><p>1. One Window for major international tournaments i.e. Six Nations/Rugby Championship/All International Tournaments</p><p>2. One Spring Test Window</p><p>3. One Fall Test Window</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">ABSOLUTELY NO GAMES PLAYED OUTSIDE TEST WINDOWS, it's unfair to the clubs and it's also unfair to the players.</span></p><p></p><p>During Rugby World Cup years, The International Tournament Window is cancelled and major tournaments i.e. Six Nations/Rugby Championship are not held as teams play in the World Cup.</p><p></p><p>I fully believe the IRB should be providing a portion of RWC earnings to respective league governing bodies i.e. PRL and LNR to secure release of star players from all nations involved.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>This is a result of the fact that Unions will not agree to a unified international season. It's not the clubs problem that SH Unions want to play internationals outside test windows and it's also not the club problem that your union doesn't want to provide adequate compensation for using a player that you don't pay any money for. Also your Japanese example only proves my point on why we need a unified international calendar. Japanese club rugby is set up around the Japanese season because the Japanese don't have a major tournament to play in and only play internationals during the June and November test windows so their players are always available for those two windows.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's because you want to play the USA outside the designated international window, again not the problem of the clubs. They are in the right for not wanting to release the players as your playing outside the window. If you want to play the USA then play them inside the Test Window and it wouldn't be a problem; however, international rugby is greedy and <span style="font-size: 15px">unions like NZ want to play 4 or 5 games during the November window when they really only have time to play 3.</span> </p><p></p><p>The present system benefits only the Tier-1 Nations and Tier-2/3 Unions are left out in the cold. Canada is going to play a measly 6 tests this year because of the unfair international calendar. We also have no space allocated for a proper international tournament.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 632097, member: 12699"] You guys should all be politicians, your great at talking in circles and not actually arguing any of the facts presented. The clubs pay the players wages and then are expected to release players without any compensation to play in lengthy tournaments with a high risk of injury and during their pre-season. You would be upset as well if you had invested substantial sums of money in something/someone and not only do you get no use out of it but you let someone else use and abuse it for free. It's the equivalent of me going out and buying a Ferrari with my money, then letting you drive it and smash the **** out of it for free without me ever getting a chance to use it. As I stated earlier, a [SIZE=4]balance needs to be struck between international and club rugby. The IRB needs to look at unifying the international schedule and they also need to look at providing clubs with proper compensation in order to secure release of star players. [/SIZE] My proposal would be to have three windows for international rugby: 1. One Window for major international tournaments i.e. Six Nations/Rugby Championship/All International Tournaments 2. One Spring Test Window 3. One Fall Test Window [SIZE=4]ABSOLUTELY NO GAMES PLAYED OUTSIDE TEST WINDOWS, it's unfair to the clubs and it's also unfair to the players.[/SIZE] During Rugby World Cup years, The International Tournament Window is cancelled and major tournaments i.e. Six Nations/Rugby Championship are not held as teams play in the World Cup. I fully believe the IRB should be providing a portion of RWC earnings to respective league governing bodies i.e. PRL and LNR to secure release of star players from all nations involved. This is a result of the fact that Unions will not agree to a unified international season. It's not the clubs problem that SH Unions want to play internationals outside test windows and it's also not the club problem that your union doesn't want to provide adequate compensation for using a player that you don't pay any money for. Also your Japanese example only proves my point on why we need a unified international calendar. Japanese club rugby is set up around the Japanese season because the Japanese don't have a major tournament to play in and only play internationals during the June and November test windows so their players are always available for those two windows. That's because you want to play the USA outside the designated international window, again not the problem of the clubs. They are in the right for not wanting to release the players as your playing outside the window. If you want to play the USA then play them inside the Test Window and it wouldn't be a problem; however, international rugby is greedy and [SIZE=4]unions like NZ want to play 4 or 5 games during the November window when they really only have time to play 3.[/SIZE] The present system benefits only the Tier-1 Nations and Tier-2/3 Unions are left out in the cold. Canada is going to play a measly 6 tests this year because of the unfair international calendar. We also have no space allocated for a proper international tournament. [/QUOTE]
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