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Opening post never seen such insight.
South Africa and France don't punch above their weight either - at least not based on the population argument.
To say nothing of Italy...
Or indeed the USA...
Yeah, possibly a bit true to be fair. Not as much as the pacific island nations though. You could say new zealand punches above its weight, although other countries probably lose players to other sports more. For instance england, perhaps their best potential tens, wingers and fullbacks end up playing football. I dont really know, i dont watch football.
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South Africa has won 3 world cups, that is quite an achievement. Also my response wasn't a statement of fact but pointing out that the people who go on about "punching above their weight" are always from smaller nations and invariably it is used as part of an axe to grind, ie we are punching above our weight so by extension you are punching below your weight, therefore if you win it means nothing and if we win it's fantastic. A huge part of sport is the coaching, not the players and all countries select from the same pool of international coaches.
So in keeping with about 90% of the posts on here then. He he.
In the days of empire we sent many good, God fearing Welshman out to the four corners as missionaries. Their descendants are just returning home to the land of their fathers. That's all.
