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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 996626" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>A lions tour is all about the tour. I don't know the history and am too lazy to search the internet but I suspect it originated in the form it's in because travelling on a ship across the world was a big deal, so it was impractical to get England, Wales, etc to do such tours separately and, because it was amateur, the availability of players to go on such a tour would have been limited. Pooling the resources thus allowed you to gather a team together. Nowadays, for the countries involved, it's still an epically awesome thing, especially as tours don't happen anymore. Maybe it makes less sense for the lions to tour Australia now, but there is still something special about one country up against a group of countries, which you wouldn't get if you just had Ireland do a proper tour of Australia. In fact, I don't think there'd be that much interest in Australia of such a tour. </p><p></p><p>so what you're suggesting, as you yourself pointed out, is not a substitute for a lions tour, doesn't achieve a lot of the similar objectives, the only thing similar is the interest in selecting and watching a 'best of' team. </p><p></p><p>I think the most interesting 'best of' game/series would be the World Cup winner vs rest of world, played the year after the World Cup, with the World Cup winner changing their eligibility criteria for that game/ series to ensure they can use players that were available for their World Cup win but have since gone to play overseas. Then, after a team won the World Cup they could try and an even greater level of world domination, and the rest of the world could get behind the rest of world 15 as some sort of revenge. </p><p></p><p>then maybe you just bring back tours as well, more generally. The host country would need to be equals or better than the touring team, to give meaning to the midweek games. If the touring team is equals you culminate with a test series, if they are lesser you culminate with a single test. You could then have the likes of Samoa touring Europe, playing Toulon, or Leinster, saracens, Cardiff, Glasgow, etc. I'm sure the northern hemisphere fans would watch those games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 996626, member: 65365"] A lions tour is all about the tour. I don’t know the history and am too lazy to search the internet but I suspect it originated in the form it’s in because travelling on a ship across the world was a big deal, so it was impractical to get England, Wales, etc to do such tours separately and, because it was amateur, the availability of players to go on such a tour would have been limited. Pooling the resources thus allowed you to gather a team together. Nowadays, for the countries involved, it’s still an epically awesome thing, especially as tours don’t happen anymore. Maybe it makes less sense for the lions to tour Australia now, but there is still something special about one country up against a group of countries, which you wouldn’t get if you just had Ireland do a proper tour of Australia. In fact, I don’t think there’d be that much interest in Australia of such a tour. so what you’re suggesting, as you yourself pointed out, is not a substitute for a lions tour, doesn’t achieve a lot of the similar objectives, the only thing similar is the interest in selecting and watching a ‘best of’ team. I think the most interesting ‘best of’ game/series would be the World Cup winner vs rest of world, played the year after the World Cup, with the World Cup winner changing their eligibility criteria for that game/ series to ensure they can use players that were available for their World Cup win but have since gone to play overseas. Then, after a team won the World Cup they could try and an even greater level of world domination, and the rest of the world could get behind the rest of world 15 as some sort of revenge. then maybe you just bring back tours as well, more generally. The host country would need to be equals or better than the touring team, to give meaning to the midweek games. If the touring team is equals you culminate with a test series, if they are lesser you culminate with a single test. You could then have the likes of Samoa touring Europe, playing Toulon, or Leinster, saracens, Cardiff, Glasgow, etc. I’m sure the northern hemisphere fans would watch those games. [/QUOTE]
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