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A RIDICULOUS text against the Pumas' perfomance in the RWC 2015
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<blockquote data-quote="YoungScud" data-source="post: 770361" data-attributes="member: 72423"><p>I just did a quick scan of player numbers in several countries, to see if there's a correlation between player numbers and relative success. these figures are simply numbers of registered players (approximately).</p><p></p><p>Italy 73,000</p><p>Scotland 38,000</p><p>NZ 147,000</p><p>Wales 80,000</p><p>Ireland 153,000</p><p>England 2,000,000</p><p>France 390,000</p><p>Australia 42,000</p><p>SA 651,000</p><p>Japan 122,000</p><p>USA 45,000</p><p></p><p>Going just by finishing places in the recent RWC (which is by no means the only measure of success), and by relative player numbers, the most successful sides might not always be the ones expected to be. Clearly, at least in RWC terms, England have vastly underperformed as have France. Relative to Scotland, Italy did very poorly too. Wales and Ireland certainly don't shine either. The one which leaps off the page at me, though, is Australia, however grudgingly I find myself saying that. Interestingly too, we may actually have expected more rather than less of Japan. </p><p></p><p>Now, I'm not nearly naive enough to suppose that player numbers are anywhere near the only criteria to be used when measuring success, and I am aware that it might seem that my country looks good in that light, but nevertheless it's an interesting comparison. Others might be, growth in player numbers (growing the game, which WR likes to say it's all for), player numbers as a percentage of population, world rankings, player numbers relative to other sports or even win rates. However we measure it, I guess we will never all agree what success is, but it's fun to point at other nationalities and say, "Look how well we did against you, and you have far more players than us". In that regard, I suppose NZ did OK...<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YoungScud, post: 770361, member: 72423"] I just did a quick scan of player numbers in several countries, to see if there's a correlation between player numbers and relative success. these figures are simply numbers of registered players (approximately). Italy 73,000 Scotland 38,000 NZ 147,000 Wales 80,000 Ireland 153,000 England 2,000,000 France 390,000 Australia 42,000 SA 651,000 Japan 122,000 USA 45,000 Going just by finishing places in the recent RWC (which is by no means the only measure of success), and by relative player numbers, the most successful sides might not always be the ones expected to be. Clearly, at least in RWC terms, England have vastly underperformed as have France. Relative to Scotland, Italy did very poorly too. Wales and Ireland certainly don't shine either. The one which leaps off the page at me, though, is Australia, however grudgingly I find myself saying that. Interestingly too, we may actually have expected more rather than less of Japan. Now, I'm not nearly naive enough to suppose that player numbers are anywhere near the only criteria to be used when measuring success, and I am aware that it might seem that my country looks good in that light, but nevertheless it's an interesting comparison. Others might be, growth in player numbers (growing the game, which WR likes to say it's all for), player numbers as a percentage of population, world rankings, player numbers relative to other sports or even win rates. However we measure it, I guess we will never all agree what success is, but it's fun to point at other nationalities and say, "Look how well we did against you, and you have far more players than us". In that regard, I suppose NZ did OK...:) [/QUOTE]
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