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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 918239" data-attributes="member: 45598">That&#039;s veeeery naive, they were both definitely on the blower with EJ before signing. Both those guys played for the national side before their English club!Not that I think that&#039;s anything to be criticised for.The bolded here is another pet peeves of mine. The only reason England don&#039;t do this is because they can&#039;t because of their club structure, if they were any better they wouldn&#039;t play Nathan Hughes and the like.It&#039;s also not the sole reason these players are signed, they&#039;re also meant to help their clubs succeed. The unions care about club success too (Winning 2 of the next 5 H cups and Pro 14s was just released as one of the IRFU&#039;s objectives in the new five year plan) and these guys help the club, giving preference to guys who could one day help the national team only makes sense. The holier than thou attitude towards this issue is a bit hypocritical coming from England or France considering it exists as a direct result of the unions clubs having more restrictions on signing foreign players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 918239, member: 45598"] That's veeeery naive, they were both definitely on the blower with EJ before signing. Both those guys played for the national side before their English club! Not that I think that's anything to be criticised for. The bolded here is another pet peeves of mine. The only reason England don't do this is because they can't because of their club structure, if they were any better they wouldn't play Nathan Hughes and the like. It's also not the sole reason these players are signed, they're also meant to help their clubs succeed. The unions care about club success too (Winning 2 of the next 5 H cups and Pro 14s was just released as one of the IRFU's objectives in the new five year plan) and these guys help the club, giving preference to guys who could one day help the national team only makes sense. The holier than thou attitude towards this issue is a bit hypocritical coming from England or France considering it exists as a direct result of the unions clubs having more restrictions on signing foreign players. [/QUOTE]

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