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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 598445" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>Dullonien, I'm afraid you couldn't be more wrong here. A main part of the reason for the added success at the Olympics has been an achievement based funding system that has allowed the cycling team for instance to get state of the art facilities and training techniques. <strong><a href="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64840000/jpg/_64840457_funding2.jpg" target="_blank">Achievers like cycling, athletics, boxing and rowing all got the most funding in place of wasting money on stuff like Handball, Basketball and Volleyball where GB barely managed to win a game</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p>The sports have to show some sign of promise and improvement to get a funding rise.</p><p></p><p></p><p>A even better comparison would be a national basketball federation giving funds to a town that consistently produces useless 5ft midgets instead of giving it to the town with 7ft giants.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Looking back at historical trends, there is a much lower chance of any of those "talents" succeeding at the Dragons than the other regions. It's not down to luck of the draw, it's down to all the other regions having far superior developmental systems that produces better talents than the ones mentioned above, and indeed even when the first choice XV was gone in Japan all the Dragons could get in the team was Andrew Coombs.</p><p></p><p>There's as much chance as the Dragons developing the majority of Wales' international players as there is them winning a trophy. Ie none.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, all the other regions who the WRU rely on for the national team are losing their players steadily and having their success diminished. Players leaving abroad is hurting Wales' chances in the long term, and the added failure of the regions because of it also harms the national team.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As opposed to the long term decline of all regions into the uncompetitive nothingness they are turning into now. This season there is a real chance that all 3 regions could finish bottom of the pool in Europe, 2 years ago there were 3 competitive teams in Europe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 598445, member: 48703"] Dullonien, I'm afraid you couldn't be more wrong here. A main part of the reason for the added success at the Olympics has been an achievement based funding system that has allowed the cycling team for instance to get state of the art facilities and training techniques. [B][URL="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64840000/jpg/_64840457_funding2.jpg"]Achievers like cycling, athletics, boxing and rowing all got the most funding in place of wasting money on stuff like Handball, Basketball and Volleyball where GB barely managed to win a game[/URL][/B]. The sports have to show some sign of promise and improvement to get a funding rise. A even better comparison would be a national basketball federation giving funds to a town that consistently produces useless 5ft midgets instead of giving it to the town with 7ft giants. Looking back at historical trends, there is a much lower chance of any of those "talents" succeeding at the Dragons than the other regions. It's not down to luck of the draw, it's down to all the other regions having far superior developmental systems that produces better talents than the ones mentioned above, and indeed even when the first choice XV was gone in Japan all the Dragons could get in the team was Andrew Coombs. There's as much chance as the Dragons developing the majority of Wales' international players as there is them winning a trophy. Ie none. Meanwhile, all the other regions who the WRU rely on for the national team are losing their players steadily and having their success diminished. Players leaving abroad is hurting Wales' chances in the long term, and the added failure of the regions because of it also harms the national team. As opposed to the long term decline of all regions into the uncompetitive nothingness they are turning into now. This season there is a real chance that all 3 regions could finish bottom of the pool in Europe, 2 years ago there were 3 competitive teams in Europe. [/QUOTE]
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