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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 918269" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Just because we can&#039;t have project players, doesn&#039;t allow you to then say we would if we could. The fact remains we don&#039;t. The clubs definitely did not sign on players to further their chances of playing for England, the ONE exception being Sam Burgess, who was English anyway. Simple fact is you can&#039;t snipe at the English for something and then say &quot;oh I&#039;m allowed to do this thing I&#039;m saying you can&#039;t because my population is smaller&quot;. The capping of foreign born players is up there with the English arrogance and the &quot;oh you are such a big country/union&quot; level of tedious Celt trump cards that are whipped out every sodding year and it&#039;s getting tiresome. A bit of banter is fine but the constant sniping by Celts on English rugby stories on any number of mediums is getting to levels that are frankly pathetic. Not so much here but it does betray and underlying sense that England are a free target and we have to play by a different set of rules to everyone else and impose artificial restrictions on ourselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 918269, member: 56232"] Just because we can't have project players, doesn't allow you to then say we would if we could. The fact remains we don't. The clubs definitely did not sign on players to further their chances of playing for England, the ONE exception being Sam Burgess, who was English anyway. Simple fact is you can't snipe at the English for something and then say "oh I'm allowed to do this thing I'm saying you can't because my population is smaller". The capping of foreign born players is up there with the English arrogance and the "oh you are such a big country/union" level of tedious Celt trump cards that are whipped out every sodding year and it's getting tiresome. A bit of banter is fine but the constant sniping by Celts on English rugby stories on any number of mediums is getting to levels that are frankly pathetic. Not so much here but it does betray and underlying sense that England are a free target and we have to play by a different set of rules to everyone else and impose artificial restrictions on ourselves. [/QUOTE]

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