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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Feicarsinn" data-source="post: 390695" data-attributes="member: 22777">When did international teams comes into this? The ability of the England team and the Irish team doesn't actually have all that much bearing on league strength. The fact is that unless premiership teams invest heavily in foreign imports in the same manner as the Top 14, then you would expect the league to be weaker. Think about it; you've got an England squad of 30 spread out over 12 teams as opposed to 12 ML teams having the strength of the Italian, Welsh, Scottish and Irish teams. So I fail to see what our performance against Italy has to do with the strength of the Aviva Premiership.Oh, and we didn't bottle, hence the win.</blockquote>