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[2023 TRC] New Zealand vs Australia
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<blockquote data-quote="Derpus" data-source="post: 1136109" data-attributes="member: 76427"><p>Commercially rugby is dead. We can't pay wages to keep our players local. We can, in theory, select our players from France and Japan but it doesn't really seem to work. Not enough continuity and at best a short term measure anyway.</p><p></p><p>We will stop producing rugby players shortly. The traditional schools in NSW have all been converted to AFL. Queensland still generates a few but when faced with the hundreds of millions the AFL pump into development its just a matter of time.</p><p></p><p>Bad news for NZ is that they are supposedly financially reliant on Aus (makes sense since its such a small country and so many of them live here). Demonstrated by the continued relevance of the Bledisloe to them (extremely one sided - most people younger than 30 wouldn't know what the Bledisloe is in Australia).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derpus, post: 1136109, member: 76427"] Commercially rugby is dead. We can't pay wages to keep our players local. We can, in theory, select our players from France and Japan but it doesn't really seem to work. Not enough continuity and at best a short term measure anyway. We will stop producing rugby players shortly. The traditional schools in NSW have all been converted to AFL. Queensland still generates a few but when faced with the hundreds of millions the AFL pump into development its just a matter of time. Bad news for NZ is that they are supposedly financially reliant on Aus (makes sense since its such a small country and so many of them live here). Demonstrated by the continued relevance of the Bledisloe to them (extremely one sided - most people younger than 30 wouldn't know what the Bledisloe is in Australia). [/QUOTE]
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