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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: 770766" data-attributes="member: 72423"><p>Indeed, as I myself pointed out. However, while that brings South Africa and England much closer together, that still leaves England with around 4 times the number of senior players as NZ, so obviously there is no direct correlation. However, 'resources' has more than one meaning. France and England clearly have a load of money swilling around in the game, although it would seem that a great deal of that isn't targeted where it should be, instead lining a handful of pockets. It's a sad fact that this is inevitable when money enters sport. So, the question remains as to what is different about SH rugby that appears to make it so much 'better' than that of the NH. This might not sound a popular view, but until the Laws of the Game are applied as written and not as interpreted by organisation trying to make the game 'saleable', there can be no level playing field. I am in no doubt that, in an effort to seel the game to sponsors, WR has purposefully moved from a competition to an attempt at making the game faster, with bigger hits and with lots of scores. To that end, interpretation of the Laws has made the game largely one of attack, while depowering defence. Scrums are unattractive, and so an abortive attempt at legislating much more heavily has been made, when all that was required was to do what refs did years ago and let forwards take responsibility for scrummaging. Meanwhile, let's not bother with straight feeds, let's just accept 'credible feeds'. So many arears of the game have been altered in this way, and the SH teams , it seems to me, are better at adapting to this. I suspect there is no way back from this situation, and so I fear that Rugby League Union is on its way. The money boys will love it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YoungScud, post: 770766, member: 72423"] Indeed, as I myself pointed out. However, while that brings South Africa and England much closer together, that still leaves England with around 4 times the number of senior players as NZ, so obviously there is no direct correlation. However, 'resources' has more than one meaning. France and England clearly have a load of money swilling around in the game, although it would seem that a great deal of that isn't targeted where it should be, instead lining a handful of pockets. It's a sad fact that this is inevitable when money enters sport. So, the question remains as to what is different about SH rugby that appears to make it so much 'better' than that of the NH. This might not sound a popular view, but until the Laws of the Game are applied as written and not as interpreted by organisation trying to make the game 'saleable', there can be no level playing field. I am in no doubt that, in an effort to seel the game to sponsors, WR has purposefully moved from a competition to an attempt at making the game faster, with bigger hits and with lots of scores. To that end, interpretation of the Laws has made the game largely one of attack, while depowering defence. Scrums are unattractive, and so an abortive attempt at legislating much more heavily has been made, when all that was required was to do what refs did years ago and let forwards take responsibility for scrummaging. Meanwhile, let's not bother with straight feeds, let's just accept 'credible feeds'. So many arears of the game have been altered in this way, and the SH teams , it seems to me, are better at adapting to this. I suspect there is no way back from this situation, and so I fear that Rugby League Union is on its way. The money boys will love it. [/QUOTE]
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