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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1152976" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>Samoa and Tonga do well in league. Samoa made the final if the league World Cup. Sure league is not all that big a sport, but when you consider union and league together and that samoa and Tonga are good at both, that tells you something.</p><p></p><p>New Zealand is likely only to remain competitive at rugby due to our samoan and Tongan population too, plus those that come over on scholarships for high school.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what it's like in other countries but sport has any that big amongst kids any more, with less than half of high school students playing any sport whatsoever. So NZ probably isn't going to be that good in the future.</p><p></p><p>For a while australia were major overachievers in the nineties and naughties. They won huge amounts of gold medals at Olympics, were good at rugby, great at cricket, league, netball.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1152976, member: 65365"] Samoa and Tonga do well in league. Samoa made the final if the league World Cup. Sure league is not all that big a sport, but when you consider union and league together and that samoa and Tonga are good at both, that tells you something. New Zealand is likely only to remain competitive at rugby due to our samoan and Tongan population too, plus those that come over on scholarships for high school. I don't know what it's like in other countries but sport has any that big amongst kids any more, with less than half of high school students playing any sport whatsoever. So NZ probably isn't going to be that good in the future. For a while australia were major overachievers in the nineties and naughties. They won huge amounts of gold medals at Olympics, were good at rugby, great at cricket, league, netball. [/QUOTE]
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